- Created By aspen
Still needs doing, no title, bad spelling
Something striked me as I woke up, where was the loud snoring of my elder brother, the loud music pumping from the radio down stairs, the smell of burnt toast and orange juice, the clatter of my father trying to fix something? There wasn't a peep. Not even a mouse squeak, I looked at my clock, it was definitely half seven, I pondered down stairs to find my mother with my smaller sibling crying on her lap and my elder brother staring at a wall. My mother just simply gave me one look, something was wrong, was it the dog? No it can't of been we don't have a dog, I sat down on the chair next to my brothers, My mother mumbled three word's I never wanted to hear from her lips or any one else's for that matter " your father's dead". It took a while to set in, my brother simply smashed his hand against his char and stormed in to the kitchen.
I felt something wet and warm slide from my eye, was it a tear, I had never cried before. Then one after the other, flood's of tear formed stream's down my face my mother patted the space next to her on the sofa, not saying a word. I went and sat there, then I crumpled in to a ball. My father, the man who was meant to teach me everything, every handy skill, how to drive, was gone. In one second taken from my clasp. "How, How, mother how?" I asked my mother.
She looked at me, and again mumbled a bunch of words " he hit another car, the car flipped, they tried all they could but her just couldn't hold on. Stupid bastard." She said...I got up and went up stairs, I looked at my room, glanced at a picture of me and my father in Cornwall. Then it came to me, that's where he was happiest. I wanted to go there, I looked at my clothes and a rucksack witch lay lifeless on my bed, I picked it up and packed it quickly, I also stuffed my phone and the £300 pounds I had got for my birthday. I told my mother I was going to a friends to get it off my mind, and set off out the door, she had no idea what I was going to do. Neither did I, then I thought is this a stupid idea, was it just a spur of the moment thing, had I dreamed my father dying?
No, I must go then I'll come straight home, heck my mother will hardly notice I've gone. It'll only take me a day or so, at least I think it will? I didn't even know where about cornwall was or how far it was, I couldn't do this disappointedly I plodded back to the house, my mother asked why was I back? I simply said my friend was away. Instantly she picked her self up, wiped off her dress, wiped her eye's and simply said " right, let's get on with our day, your father wouldn't want up all slouching around? Shall we go out? What about the beach ehy? Or the museum or the park? Do something fun get it off our minds" my little sisters jumped in delight.
" Oh the beach mummy! We love the beach!" They chirped together. My mother smiled and pointed to the stairs, at that moment I felt an overwhelming feeling of courage for my mother. Her husband has just been killed in a car crash, yet she had the courage to drag her self off the couch and act as if nothing had happend purely so her two younger children could forget this tragic disaster had happened. Moments later my two younger sisters crashed down stairs with swimming costume's on boogie boards arm band's the whole hog of stuff you needed to go the beach and of course 'everywhere bear' This was a teddy bear my mother bought when my brother was little, it says what's in the name, every where we go, the bear go's and after we write in a log about it and put pictures in it, do yeah just what it says on the tin.
My mother simply went in to the kitchen and started to make the sandwiches for our trip to the beach she knew every bodies favourite, ham for me, pickle and cheese for my sisters, a cucumber for her self and a huomus for my brother. Then I saw her standing with two more piece's of bread, then a single tear trickled down her calming face, she had started to make a sandwich for my father. Then with a flick of her wrist she wiped the tear away, she looked back at me as I stood there gormless, she came up to me gave me a hug then wiped me off. "Now my pet, don't be like that, everything is going to be okay. Your father was a bloody nuisance anyway! Now put on a happy face, at least for the twins, for me?" She said in an almost silent whisper. Just then my elder brother slunked into the room.
"So the beach. Can tab's come?" He said in an almost monotone voice, my mother nodded with a smile, tab's or Tabitha was my brothers girlfriend, tabitha was like the older sister I never had, she always take's an interest in me and listen's when I talk she sticks up for me against everyone and she just cares like an older sister should. One of my little sisters came in with a waterfall of tears running down her face, she whispred to me.
"Daddy isn't coming home is he pet? Lissie just said he is never coming home, can you tell him to come home pet, because-because I miss him already. Pretty please, tell him I miss him", she whispered, I looked to my mother who gave me that 'just pretend' look, so I picked her up and reassured her everything is fine, and told her all about the beach, how the sun always shine's at the sea side, and how you can see glorious puppet shows and eat freshly made doughnuts, and of course ice cream! Her face brightened up and she ran to belle to tell her the news about all of the wonderful things you could see at the seaside.
I heard the door open and I could tell it was tab's she shouted in to me and my mum and she shouted back. She came in the kitchen and grabbed my mother, she cried in to my mothers shoulder then just like my mother pulled away and brushed her self down, then she walked over to me "Hey, pet how's it going? God, wish it was my dad instead of yours, how's cal? Moody as ever, god he'll be worse now! And lissie and belle, are they okay? Hmm....hey next week I'll come and have a chat with you okay? We can have some down time" then she sort of floated out of the room with elegance, to go see cal of course. I started to hum to myself 'oh I do like to be beside the sea side' as I went up stairs to get my stuff a cosutme, my ipod all the stuff I needed for the beach packed it all up and went back down stairs to see my mum standing by the front door, a little girl on eatch arm and a massise satchel of food.
Then she did that hell raising shout, as loud as she possibly could, you could tell by the way she pumped up her cheats and took two little breathes then It came "CALLUM AND TABITHA GET DOWN HERE NOW! WE ARE LEAVING IN 5 SECONDS!" My two little sisters mimed her. Then a clunk of four feet running down the stairs, both of tab's and callum landed with a big clunk in the living room with big giggles, and out of breath. My mother smiled let go of lissie, thrusted her toward me and picked up the satchel "off we go my babies"
We all loaded in to the car, me in the middle with the two girls either side tab's and callum in the back and the satchel in the front seat, then my mother sighed, and looked back at all of us ' you better behave!' She said then turned and turned the radio on and went up along the street. The 2 hour journey to the beach was painful to say the least 'The Wheels On The Bus' on a continuous loop, I now want to bloody pop the wheel's on that bus! The we go there, it was exactly as you would of imagned it, All families like us, the sweet smell of sugar in the air, old people in the tea shop, ah I love it!
Both lissie and belle ran out of the car and right down to the shore, my mother just laughing at them as if the thought of my father had completely gone from her mind, my brother and tab's walked off some where on there own and I ran off down the shore to catch my little sister's before they went in to the water, and sun lotion them before they burnt. When I found them they were standing by a rock pool poking a tiny fish. I dragged them both up by the arms and pulled them in to the shade. "Pet! We liked mr gennoooo!"They choursed, I gave them a 'mum' look then slathered them in sun cream. After all that we went to find a spot to sit, then we spotted my mother and she had already found one so I went and played with the sea with the girls, then next few minuites were a whirl wind of surprise. Before I knew it I was screaming on the shore while belle lay limp, I can't remember the next hour.
I remeber walking off, I sat under the pier, then he turned up, he just whisperd hey and came and plopped next to me. We got to talking and I found out he watched me and what happend with belle, then he told me I caught his eye because I looked 'amazing' in my bikini, I blushed and turned away. He pulled my hair back and gave me a kiss on the cheek, he gave me innocent eyes they had something mysterious behind them, drawing me in.
He lead me to a little hut down the beach we sat in side kissing and just staring at each other and embracing each other it was amazing, before I knew it we were slipping back into our clothes and leaving the hut and what just happened behind, I don't want to explain what happened its pretty obvious, he was special, we swapped phone numbers and I took him over to meet my mum, he said hi and she looked at me with that 'oh he's special is he' kind of look, then I went to meet his mum , she was kind but he had too many siblings and it was hard to talk so we escaped to the chip shop then back to our hut but this time we just talked an ate, he told me how old he was, a year older than me. I told him about my father he seemed shocked when I told him it was today the incident happened. We didn't really talk about anything important just anything really I was so memorised by him I didn't even know what was coming out of my mouth half the time, before we knew it the clock said it was half six, we raced back to our parents, we didn't want our parents to see so we kissed before we left the hut. I left the beach feeling amazing and I just couldn't wait to see andy again.
As we pulled up to the house, I all of a sudden felt grim, I felt my father there but I knew he wasn't coming back, we all slumped in to the house. And of couse now I had to put the twins to bed, it wasn't too hard they were both worn out from the beach, tab's decided to stay over for the night, that meant she was sleeping in my room. As we were lying in bed chatting I turned to tab's and told her all about what happened with andy and how I felt about him but I missed out the bit when we 'ehremed' she looked at me with her eye's filled with glee, she wouldn't stop chatting the, she told me this is how she felt when she met cal and how excited she was for me ' oh my god! I can't believe this! eek! Oh my pet I'm so so so so happy for you! Ahhhhhh! My little sister growing up!' She chattered away.
The next few week's were uneventful, me and andy went 'public' with our relationship, he came to visit a few times and I visited him, we had dad's funeral, I decided not to go and spent the day looking after the twins. Tab's got more and more excited about me and andy she always told him he must look after me other wise she'd batter him. His house was so loud most of the time we managed to sneek up to his bed room and talk, he was always intresed in what I had to say and always wanted to know how I was copping with my fathers loss I just fell in love with him, he was the most amazing person ever.
Then that dreadful night came, I wasn't expecting it. I went round my friends for a sleep over a few of my mates were there, clarissa, jamie, jess and hannah. Hannah had brought the pregnancy test's she had found in her mum's drawer and suggested we pee on them as a joke, so we did. My turn. We waited ten miniutes like it said, we all knew it would come out 'not pregnant' then the ten miniutes were up, we all looked down on it and I saw a thing I never wanted to see at that moment, a little pink cross. All of my friends gasped........was I? I tried another test and it came out the same............Oh god, all my friends clucked in shock, they asked me if it was andy, I assured them it was....they were all asking what I was going to do keep it lose it?
The next day I texted andy, 'B4D n3ws bby, come rund qick' so he did as soon as he could, I took him up to my bed room, and showed him both the tests. He was calm and asked if it was deffinatly his, I hit him for assuming otherwise, I saw his face drop. Of course he asked the same question am I going to keep it, I answered yes, yes I am. He told me we need to tell our mum's so that night we were all sitting round wtaching telly even tab's when I said it just out loud, 'mummy I'm pregnant' she flipped instantly, asking me was it a joke, I cried for 3 hours solid, eventually she came up to my room and sat on the end of my bed, by now andy had gone. She had brought me some tea and some biscuits, she looked in to my eyes and just stared for ages....
" Oh dear, my little baby girl, ehy? How did we get in to this mess, god I'm an awful mother, my 14 year olf daughter is pregnant, what am I going to do ehy? You keeping it?" She asked I nodded silently "how far gone baby?" I shrugged my shoulders "right I'll book a doctors appointment for tomorrow we can see how for gone you are. I need to tell you the in's and outs in the mean while." She said them she wriggled up my bed and snuggled up next to me, and for the next few hours she told me everything and I mean everything!
Andy came with me and my mum to the appointment, we found out I was 2 months gone I saw the baby on the monitor, it was so small
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