Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad

Author:Katrina Nannestad
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC Books
Published: 2022-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

That evening, after supper, Vati lifts me into his arms and gives me a bear hug. ‘Now, be a good princess and make sure you look after Mutti while I’m gone.’

I nod and kiss him on the cheek.

Mutti leans in and kisses Vati’s other cheek and I feel a flutter of happiness.

Later, when Mutti tucks me into bed, she says, ‘We’ll have lots of fun here, just the two of us.’

‘Just the three of us,’ I say, holding Sooty up to her face for a fluff-snuggle.

Sooty purrs and half-closes his eyes with happiness. The moment I put him down on the bed, though, he circles about mewling.

‘Perhaps he needs to go to the toilet,’ suggests Mutti.

‘But we’ve only just brought him in!’ I cry.

‘He’s a baby,’ she says. ‘They tiddle all the time when they’re little.’

I carry him downstairs and out through the kitchen door. I sit him on the ground, but instead of tiddling, he dashes away, across the farmyard and into the barn. Mutti grabs a torch and we search for him, calling out his name. At last, we find him, snuggled up in the straw with Missy and the other two kittens.

‘Aw,’ I sigh. ‘He misses his mother.’

Mutti scoops Sooty up and hands him back to me. ‘Don’t worry. He’ll get used to living in the house with you. In no time at all, he’ll love you just as much as he loves his real mother. Maybe even more. You’ll see.’

I know she’s right. I already love Sooty with all my heart. I’m so very glad to have him as my own little darling and I’m sure he’s going to have a safe and happy life with me.

But, for some reason, as I carry him away from his mother and his sisters and his home in the barn, tears start to roll down my cheeks.

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