Cecelia Ahern by Book of Tomorrow
Author:Book of Tomorrow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-06T20:24:26+00:00
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
One oâClock
The diary told me I had until one oâclock that day.
It was quite unusual really, the morning playing out exactly as Iâd read the night before. Rosaleen waking me, telling me to stay home, and it seemed so obvious thenâthe second time roundâthat she just didnât want me visible to the rest of her little world. Imagine the horror and shame of having to tell people that Mum and I existed; that a man had taken his life, the worst sin of all. Iâd felt angry about that and had to fight my desire to demand I go to mass too but I stayed under the covers, and as I listened to their car drive away in the sepia-coloured day, hereâs where my day differed to the diary. It was unusual, having things happening that I felt had technically already happened, but I was sort of getting used to it.
Instead of falling back asleep after Rosaleen and Arthur had driven off, I got dressed and ran downstairs. I was sitting on the garden wall when the yellow Cinquecento came flying down the road, with the window rolled down.
âAh!â Sister Ignatiusâ eyes lit up. âJust the girl I wanted to see. Are you coming to mass?â
I looked in the car at the four nuns squashed together.
âOh, you can sit on Sister Peter Reginaâs knee,â she teased, and I heard a âpahâ from inside. âWe sing at all the morning masses. Youâre part of a choir, you should join us if the laryngitis isnât still at you.â
Canât, I mimed, grabbing my throat and opening and closing my mouth.
âGargle some salt and youâll be as right as rain,â she glared at me, then brightened. âThanks for the book, by the way.â
âYouâre welcome,â I broke my silence. âI picked it especially for you.â
âI thought so,â she chuckled. âYou know at the beginning, I didnât like her, Marilyn Mountrothman. She was stuck up and expected far too much, but by the end I grew to love her. Just like Tariq. It didnât seem an obvious pairing but the way he knew just what she was thinking all the time, particularly when she was crying about the message from her father but wouldnât tell him. Oh, that got me, I must admit. But he figured it out. He knew that she loved him. Smart man! I suppose thatâs how he made his millions and became the oil tycoon. I like it when they put the photos of them on the front covers. It helps me visualise them all the way through. Him with his hair slicked back and all those musclesâ¦â
âYou actually read it?â
âOh, yes, of course I did. Sister Conceptua has started it now.â
The woman in the front passenger seat twisted around. âDonât tell me what happens. Heâs just chartered the private plane to Istanbul.â
âOh, youâve the best bits to get to yet,â Sister Ignatius clapped her hands. âTwo wordsâTurkish delight,â she said.
âI said sshh,â Sister Conceptua snapped. âYouâll give it away.â
âWe have to go,â Sister Mary barked from behind the wheel.
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