Beneath the Rainbow by Lisa Shambrook

Author:Lisa Shambrook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: afterlife, children's death, Drama, grief, heartfelt, Heartwarming, heaven, stories about grief, stories for parents, what dreams may come, young adult, family, gritty stories, real stories
Publisher: BHC Press
Published: 2018-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

It felt quite bizarre to Freya to watch Meg visit more often than she had when Freya was alive, when Meg had been her best friend!

Mrs Frost, however, was over the moon that Meg had acquired a new friend and was doing her best to support it, even if that meant allowing Steph over for tea once in a blue moon. She was relieved though, that both Meg and Steph preferred disappearing with Olivia, Steph’s mum.

Where Mrs Frost disapproved of the colourful Olivia, Rachel relished the friendship that had developed since she turned up on her doorstep with two nervous little girls and paper snowflakes.

There had been no more snow that year, except the flakes on the Christmas card and it now stood beside the lacy, purple and red heart valentine that the two girls had made for Rachel. “They want to make you the cards that Freya would have, just for a year.” Olivia had confided in Freya’s mum. “They don’t want you to feel left out, but it’ll only be for a year, though they’ll probably forget about it after Easter. Is that before or after Mother’s day this year?”

Rachel had shrugged and shaken her head with a smile. The cards were lovely and she really appreciated the sentiment, but she wasn’t sure how easy it would be to accept a Mother’s day card, when the time came…

At first Rachel wasn’t sure about making new friends, she had become much more introverted since her daughter’s death, and Olivia had looked like she might just be too much hard work, but Olivia wasn’t to be deterred, and she made it her business to visit frequently, and more often than not, she would bring along both Steph and Meg. This delighted Jasmine who missed Freya and still wondered out loud when she would come home.

So while her first visits were tolerated, Rachel soon came to look forward to Olivia Turner turning up.

It was Steph who, when Jasmine was plucking snowdrops out of the earth, helped her to dig up a baby hellebore instead to give to Daisy next door. Jasmine left a trail of squashed snowdrops en route to Daisy’s back door, accompanied by Steph and Meg.

“For Daiseee,” said Jasmine, clutching a muddy brown pot to her chest, as they knocked on the door.

Steph and Meg stood behind her. The door opened and Daisy smiled. “Hello girls,” she said. “And what can I do for you?”

“More fowers,” said Jasmine, “The uvver ones broked.” Jasmine cast her eyes behind her to the snowdrop trail and offered up the pot.

“So Jasmine’s mum said we could give you a baby hellebore,” Steph told her, “There are lots more baby plants all round it!”

Daisy grinned, amused by the fate of the poor snowdrops. “Well, Donald will be very pleased,” she said, “he’s always liked that hellebore, beautiful snowy white, and look at those flecks…” She pointed behind them at the parent plant. “Be a few years before this one’s as good as that, but it’s good to be patient.

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