Will Mummy Be Coming Back for Me? by Shane Dunphy

Author:Shane Dunphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141946641
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

Jason was mourning for his brother, who had perpetrated the ultimate betrayal by leaving him through death. He was grieving for a childhood he could never have returned to him. He was trying to overcome a mother and father who had brutalized him, and then confounded their abuse by repeatedly letting him down. There was a part of him that was trying to make sense of all that through raging at the world, visiting abuse on others and repeating patterns of behaviour long-since proven to be unproductive and destructive. I poured myself some more coffee.

In his own, confused way Jason had been trying to locate a place where someone loved him, but had found the task as impossible as if it required changing his form, or growing a pair of wings.

I put the bread in the oven, and then went to the cupboard where I kept my personal notes and files from previous cases. There, behind my autoharp, was a box full of paperwork from my earliest cases. In here were the notes I had made during the court proceedings against Jason Farrell’s father. I pulled the dusty box out and brought it into the kitchen. The room was beginning to fill with the smell of baking bread and freshly brewed coffee. I took a bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey from the liquor cabinet, poured a liberal shot into my mug, and began to riffle through the old papers and notebooks.

What caused me to seek out these old musings and hastily scribbled thoughts was that some similarities were starting to emerge for me between that first meeting with Jason and this latest encounter. Both centred on a court case. Each involved a possible betrayal by Timmy. And now, as I sat down to examine a densely lined sheet of paper dated October 3rd 1991, I realized that the reliability and good faith of Liz Farrell, Jason’s mother, remained a serious question.

I turned my attention to the page.

Jason is going from strength to strength. He really is a remarkable little chap. Despite everything he has been through, he is affectionate, thoughtful and really quite bright. He has no literacy skills, really, but has an amazing memory, and can recall stories almost verbatim. I wish we could send him to school, or even bring in a tutor, but his behaviour can still be erratic at times, and Terri doesn’t want to risk it. He doesn’t need another setback, at this stage.

The date for the case against his parents has been set – it’s to happen at the beginning of next month. I’m dreading it in one way, because it’ll be horrible for Jason to have to go through. Terri and I have discussed him being there or not, and we feel it would be better if he didn’t attend. But the fallout will be something we can’t guard him from. He’ll live with the outcome of it for the rest of his life.

His parents are hard people to read. His father is a quite handsome, charming man, in a rough sort of way.

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