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any second, kiss her and Tom on the forehead, and rightly prove Frank wrong. The seconds ticked by and Amy’s heart sunk.
    ‘He’ll be coming!’ Thomas rebutted, shooting Frank a look of contempt. ‘Won’t he, Amy?’
    Amy half smiled and half shrugged in response. Luke said he’d be there when she’d phoned to tell him she was in labour, and that was the last she’d heard from him. She reminded herself to phone him once her family left.
    ‘So rest it for today, will you, Frank!’ Thomas added.
    ‘Okay, I will,’ Frank said. ‘For today !’ he mouthed to Amy, with a smirk that made him look like an idiot. Frank was six feet tall with dark brown hair and rugged looks, and at twenty-two years of age, his childish attitude didn’t suit him at all.
    ‘Oh my,’ Joan said in a high-pitched voice, ‘Tom just smiled at me!’ She turned and held Tom at arm’s length, donning a face that said help me .
    ‘ And ?’ Amy snapped. After all Adaizi had said, Amy needed the acceptance of her family more than ever.
    ‘Babies don’t smile!’ Frank shouted, stomping towards Tom. ‘Let me have a hold!’ He took Tom from Joan. ‘ I can’t see…’
    Tom gave his biggest smile yet. Frank sat and blinked in astonishment while Tom held clear eye contact with him. ‘It’s…wind!’ he said, although clearly stunned in spite of his conclusion. Frank made to give Tom back to Joan but, because she still looked shocked, he turned and passed him back to Thomas.
    ‘Heard the news?’ Thomas asked Amy as he took Tom, still oblivious that the smiling wasn’t normal. ‘Electricity companies aren’t sure what happened last night, but a massive surge hit the whole Manchester area!’
    ‘What hit?’ Amy asked, hoping to find some answers.
    ‘It happened at ours too,’ Frank interjected. ‘The lights, the TV and everything came on in the house.’
    ‘No way,’ Amy said, the logical side of her mind kicking in, telling her what happened wasn’t because of Tom. She now had an actual explanation for it: a surge!
    ‘Way!’ Frank said.
    ‘We’re normally asleep at that time,’ Thomas said. ‘But with us knowing you were in labour, we couldn’t sleep. We were too excited, weren’t we, dear?’
    ‘Were you?’ Amy shouted, hoping to trigger some kind of a response from her mother, who sat staring at Tom open-mouthed.
    ‘Joan!’ Thomas shouted.
    ‘Oh, err…yes!’ she said, snapping out of her sombre stare. ‘It’s nice to have one of each as well, isn’t it, Thomas?’
    ‘Yes,’ Thomas said.
    Amy’s heart pounding, she shot out of the bed to turn on the radio across the room. She needed confirmation.
    ‘Look at you!’ Frank said. ‘Alicia will go mad when I tell her you’re up and about as normal!’
    ‘Oh yes,’ Joan agreed. ‘She’s annoyed that you’ve had no complaints or tiredness.’
    The radio tuned in.
     
    … from the surge that happened at midnight last night. The power company gave no reason as to why this super surge happened. Reports indicate that a fourteen-mile radius was affected, the centre of which was North Manchester Hospital, where the electricity malfunctioned the previous night. Power companies are wondering if the repair workers at the hospital yesterday caused the surge. Experts say this isn’t possible. While the event confounds science experts, we’re asking if they’re investigating the impossible today.
    Time for the weather now, and after all that talk of April showers, it looks like the sun has come out to play …
     
    As Amy turned down the radio, she recalled Adaizi saying an earthquake caused the lights to blow. With the report stating there was no reason, her mind told her if Adaizi was wrong about that, then she was obviously wrong about the rest! Not that she’d be willing to believe anything so ludicrous anyway. Adaizi, as crazy as she was, must have concocted the story from the previous night’s events.
    ‘It malfunctioned one night and came back the