Welcome to Ferry Lane Market by Nicola May

Author:Nicola May
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 2021-05-07T17:00:00+00:00

‘Kerry? Kerry? Oh my God.’ Billy jumped down the steps in one go, took off his jacket and placed it over the shivering woman. ‘Up you come now.’ He gently lifted her off the chilly concrete ground.

‘My foot. I’ve hurt my foot,’ she wept, then whoosh, she turned her head and projectile vomited, splashing Billy’s trainers and the bottom of his joggers as she did so.

‘I’m so sorry,’ she wailed. ‘I’m drunk, Dilly Billon. Dilly Dillon. Drunk.’ She then let out a moaning sound and laughed. ‘All those D’s, Dillon, Drunk – Double D’s like my big wobbly tits.’

Billy couldn’t help but smile at the new drunk character revealing itself from behind his sweet amour. Avoiding the pool of sick and with the rain beating down on him too, he sat next to her on the bottom step. ‘Yes. You’re drunk, really drunk, but it’s OK. I’m here now. Let’s get you home to bed.’

‘I don’t want to go to bed.’ She burst into tears. ‘I don’t want to go to bed because when I wake up, we have to say goodbye to Grandad Harry, and I don’t want to do that.’ She groaned again.

Billy bit his lip and pulled her close to him. She was soaking wet and shaking, and she smelled of vomit. ‘I know, Doll, I know. But you need to get some sleep, you really do, or you will feel awful tomorrow. Come on, let’s get out of here.’

Kara’s head lolled as she kept up her soulful lament. ‘And I’m sad. I’m sad because nobody wants me. My mum didn’t want me. Even Jago didn’t want me. What’s wrong with me, Billy?’

‘Oh Kerry, there’s nothing wrong with you. They have the problem, your mum and Jago, it’s not you.’ He took in her anguished face and soulful green eyes. ‘If you could only see what I see, you’d never be sad again. You are SO beautiful.’

‘I’m not, I’m fat and freckly and ginger.’

‘No! You’re curvaceous, sun-kissed and gorgeous,’ Billy shouted above the elements, rain dripping from every feature of his face.

But the troubled girl’s ears remained shut. ‘And I don’t want to be on my own forever. Jago said that I was useless, that without him, I would be nothing. Maybe he’s right.’

‘Jago is a cunt,’ Billy said under his breath.

‘Ah! You said the C word, I’m telling.’ Kara, in her now childlike state, suddenly smirked, then burst into tears again. ‘My head is spinning, and my foot really does hurt.’

Guiding her to the small undercover area, Billy managed to sit her on an empty crate. ‘Which foot is it?’ Kara pointed down to her left one. Ignoring the stench of sick that was coming from her garbling mouth, he carefully eased off her sopping wet plimsoll and sock. Her left little toe was already colouring up red and stuck out at a slight angle. It was quite possibly broken. With the alcohol acting as an anaesthetic, he pushed it gently back into its rightful place, ripped a piece from her sock and tied it to the toe next door.

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