“We can’t keep her, she’s not normal, look at that one, solitary eye in the middle of her forehead, people will think that we are not normal too”.“But she’s our baby, and I don’t care what she looks like”, replied her mother.“And what, my love, do you intend to tell our friends?” Nathan asked, with an arrogant look upon his face.“Not what you would have us tell them, that’s for sure”, whispered Suzy in a still, small voice.She knew that the baby would be an embarrassment to them, in their circle of influential and perfect friends.“Stillborn, that’s all we will say, leave everything to me and you just concentrate on getting yourself looking glamorous again, we have the ball in two weeks time and I don’t want you looking like a sack of potatoes for that”Nathan arranged for the baby to be taken to the Tower House, where, for a hefty sum, he would employ a woman to look after the child.Suzy grieved the grief of a bereaved mother, but her only aim in life was to keep and please her husband, so, slowly, over the years she convinced herself that Allie, the name she had given the child, in her heart, had never existed.It was twenty five years later that Nathan, met his end, while driving a car that was much too fast for his quickly slowing brain.Suzy, arranged the funeral in double quick time, she did not want to lose one single day before she could see her daughter and drove straight from the service to Tower House.She knocked the bat shaped doorknocker with hardly and trepidation, but when the wizened, old woman eventually opened the door, her heart gave a quick turn.Miranda, the old woman, knew instantly who she was and bade her to come upstairs.Dressed from head to toe in black lace, with long flowing hair, stood Allie, her one eye, made up as well as any top fashion model. She was beautiful and special and as if Miranda knew that her days of looking after her had come to an end, she packed Allie’s bag with what few things she possessed, she had had no need for going out things as for the whole of her twenty five years, Nathan had specified that she be kept behind locked doors, in case she was ever seen, and the truth revealed.
Trundling along the country lanes, Allie's face was full of wonder, it rained and then the sun broke throut,creating the most glorious double rainbow imaginable.
"one for you, Allie and one for me" laughed Suzy.
They arrived to the sound of Ben barking his greeting.
Settled, cuddled and loved the three if them sat on the sette and gazed at the rainbow's end.
They had found their treasure
Copyright Penny Little 2005
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