Me Myself Milly

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in English, had organised an exchange with an American lecturer, so he and Jeanie were going to move to Los Angeles for a year. It
wasn’t just a job swap, it would be a house swap as well; so that meant his American counterpart would be moving in upstairs and teaching here for a year. He said they’d be leaving in a
couple of weeks. I felt sick.
    Jeanie explained that the door between our basement flat and the rest of the house would have to be locked. Then she said I’d have to give my front door key back. I hate them. How could
they do this to me?
    David said it had been arranged for ages and they couldn’t cancel and he was really sorry. He said he would have told us before but with ‘everything that’s happened’ it
never seemed like the right time.
    I wanted to ask if they’d take me with them but I knew I’d just sound pathetic and Mum would never agree to it anyway.
    I was desperately trying not to show them how upset I was, but it must have been obvious because David put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘It’ll be fun for you, Milly.
They’ve got a son and he’s not much older than you.’
    Like that helped!
    I made some excuse and ran downstairs so no one would see me crying. I cried into my pillow because I didn’t want Mum to hear me. My pillow got all soggy and covered in snot so I turned it
over and put it on Lily’s bed. She’ll never notice.
    Eventually I stopped crying and lay on the bed following the cracks in the ceiling with my eyes. I felt strangely resolute. Like there was a piece of iron running through my body. Jeanie and
David were going away. I’d just have to deal with it, like I’d dealt with everything else. It wasn’t their fault – I knew that. So why did I feel that I’d been
betrayed?
    Why do people have to grow up and get sensible jobs and do their houses up and generally behave like adults?
    I wasn’t overreacting or anything. It was as if my dad had just said he was going away for a year. David is the closest thing Lily and I have ever had to a dad. Lily doesn’t seem at
all bothered and says she doesn’t know why I’m making such a fuss.
    I was so upset I opened the doll’s house and took Jeanie and David out, even though they haven’t left yet. I packed them in the shoebox and stuffed it under the bed.
    When Lily and I were five we went to school. Mum had been planning to home educate us, but she’d started writing these books all about some twins which really took
off and so we were sent to school after all.
    We were the only twins in the school and, being practically identical, we caused a bit of a stir. At least Lily made sure we did. I say practically identical because, although we looked the
same, we couldn’t have been more different as far as personality went, so if we sat as still as statues and didn’t say anything it was hard to tell us apart, but the minute we started
to talk or move it was obvious who was who.
    Lily liked to hold my hand all the time. She learned from an early age that people thought this was sweet. I remember the first day when the teacher put us on different tables. The girl next
to me smiled and said she was called Becky. She showed me her new pencil case and then Lily was there, pushing her off the chair.
    ‘That’s my Milly,’ she said and sat down. The girl started to cry and the teacher got cross and tried to get Lily to go back to her seat, but all she would say was ‘My
Milly’, over and over again until the teacher gave up and let us sit together. It sort of set the scene for the next six years.
    That was the time when Mum was seeing Jason. David was having an extension built on the back of the house so we could live in the basement and he hired Jason as the carpenter on the job. At
that time we still mostly lived upstairs because that’s where all the action was, but we had our bedroom in the basement and then Mum got her workroom down there so it sort of became
ours.
    Jason was working on the
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