Daddy's Little Secret by Tina Davis

Author:Tina Davis [Davis, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781446489390
Publisher: Ebury Digital
Published: 2011-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

Still, behind Charlie’s back, I stayed in contact with Paul and tried to be there for him when he needed me, even if I couldn’t have him in my house. He was always running away and getting into trouble until social services moved him to a care home in Wales where he finally settled down and achieved a level of happiness.

Then, one day, he called to say: ‘Lisa wants to talk to you.’

My heart leapt into my mouth – I hadn’t seen or spoken to Lisa since our mum’s funeral five years before. What did she want? Did she hate me?

‘What does she want?’ I asked Paul. ‘What if she hates me? I can’t speak to her if she hates me.’

As much as I loved and missed my sister, I couldn’t bear the thought of being rejected by her – so if she just wanted to speak to me to have a go at me, then I couldn’t face talking to her.

Paul called back a few days later. ‘Nah, she doesn’t hate you, Tina. She just wants to ask you some questions.’

Paul gave me her number and I contrived a plan to speak to her. I’d managed to get a pay-as-you-go mobile from Charlie a few months previously so we could stay in touch while I was in hospital with Tammy and one night he asked me to go to the garage to get some Coke. It took about half an hour to walk to the garage from our house so I slipped the mobile into my pocket and left. My hands were shaking as I dialled the number.

‘Hello Lisa – it’s me, Tina,’ I started, hesitantly.

‘Tina! You called!’

‘Yeah, look can you call me back cos I don’t have any credit?’

She took my number and within a minute she was on the phone again. I didn’t know what to say but that didn’t matter because Lisa was tripping over her words trying to tell me all about her life.

It was wonderful to hear her voice after so long – she sounded so grown up, not like the little girl I’d known before. And in that half an hour we caught up on everything that had happened to her since she was taken into care and I told her about my kids. Finally, she got round to asking me about Mum.

‘I want to know more about her,’ she admitted. ‘I don’t remember much and I’ve got so many questions.’

It turned out there was a lot Lisa didn’t understand because she was too young – like why she and Paul had been taken into care. She didn’t know!

So I filled her in on how our mum neglected them and they were left to forage for themselves, about the times they’d turned up for school in dirty clothes they’d been wearing for days and the way they were just left to roam free because Mum was too out of it to care for them. No one had explained to her that Mum couldn’t cope because of her illness and medication.

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