We are the Glampions! by Daisy Tate

Author:Daisy Tate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-06-28T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Emily glanced up at the station clock. If Freya hurried she just might make it. Mrs Hitchin’s hip had a lot to answer for.

Charlotte absently poured milk into her tea, blew some of the steam away, then put the cup down. Far too hot.

She looked as thunderstruck as Emily felt. ‘And you’re sure you want to do this?’

Seriously?

The only thing Emily was sure of was that she’d gone completely mad, but what else was she meant to have said? Nope. Don’t want her. Find someone else to care for your orphaned daughter.

‘Luna and I get along.’

‘We know you get along. That’s not the …’ Charlotte paused while an announcement about train delays to Cardiff boomed through the station. When it finished she adopted a new tack. ‘Whatever Izzy wants is obviously the right path to choose.’

There were a lot of things Emily could say in response but reading between the lines was pretty easy on this one. Liking a child was one thing. Raising one was an entirely different kettle of fish. Mahi Mahi and Bigeye Tuna in Luna’s case.

Emily scrubbed her fingers into her scalp. Leaving Izzy behind all tearful and anxious was one of the hardest things she’d ever done. ‘Look. All of this is completely hypothetical. Luna only needs a guardian if Izzy isn’t … you know … alive.’

Charlotte blinked rapidly as she attempted to take another sip of her murky train station tea. It looked like something out of 1984. In fact, everything was taking on a surreal tint now that Emily had agreed to adopt a ten-year-old child if her best friend died.

‘Have you done anything legally binding?’

‘Nope.’ It was all she could do to get Izzy peeled off the floor once Cheery Oncologist had left the room, let alone google how to do a custody hand-over. ‘We wrote it on a Post-it.’

‘You didn’t.’

‘We did.’ Emily showed her the Post-it then tucked it back into her bag alongside Tansy’s number. Which of the two would be used first?

‘And you think this treatment is the best there is on offer?’

‘As far as I know it is, but …’ Oh fuckety, fuck monsters. Nothing was foolproof. Emily held her hands up in the surrender position. ‘Nothing’s guaranteed. She might live. She might die.’

There. She’d said it.

The words hovered over her, then crashed back down, dislodging her heart as they did. Her very best friend in the world – the one she’d had her first proper crush on, her first hangover with, her first laugh until you throw up in your mouth a little with – had, on her suggestion, walked into hospital today and could very likely not walk out again.

Mercifully, Charlotte didn’t try to comfort her. There were no placating turns of phrase to change the fact that Izzy was being eaten alive by cancer.

Charlotte slipped a pile of serviettes between Emily’s elbows as she pressed her thumbs into her eyes trying to stem the tears.

When she collected herself, Emily briskly patted the table, pretended she didn’t look like a red-eyed demon and announced, ‘It’s all academic anyway.

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