WHEN MEGAN IN THE hospital choking with her tongue it beed not like this. It beed fast and blinking bright.
This hospital is no colours. School assembly hall. Strangers’ farts. There a secret going on here. She can feel it in her neck.
‘Cawy me, Daddy.’
Megan know it be a tonne weight for daddy to be carrying her and also baby Peggy but she does whinge and whinge acause she needs to be carried this day.
They be going to say bye bye to Mimi.
That meaned Daddy won the discussing, acause in the night Den did be crying and saying she want to see Mimi. Mammy say, ‘No, Den. You don’t want to see her like that…’ but then Mammy and Daddy were discussing.
Megan sayed it very whispering: ‘I have to tell somefing to Mimi’ but they didn’t be hearing her.
Mammy think Megan don’t be knowing how it is. Den telled her and anyway she knowed already. All the bits of Mimi do be flying off like she be maked of birds. All her words be going and all her pictures and she be nearly all gone now but Megan haves to tell her.
When they be getting out of the car she thinked maybe Mimi is not being here. She be all flewn away maybe. Den has a face like she think so too.
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They find the room in the hospital and that take a long time. When Daddy open the door, Megan bees very sleepy, so sleepy like she can’t even see and she can’t walk, and she put her face in Daddy’s shirt.
Aunty Freya be there and Jem and they not saying Hi.
It is Mimi in the bed. That’s what Daddy say, and DenDen say no and holds Daddy’s leg and he can’t walk anymore so Megan lets him put her on the floor and now she can stand and she can walk.
There bees a lie here. Some of Mimi be flewn away and in the bed is bits of her left. She know DenDen be scared even if she be a big girl and Megan not be scared at all. It be not very Mimi in the bed, but she go up quickly aside Freya and Jem and she stretch up at the hand that Aunty Freya be holding and there bees a smell like Mimi’s house and very quickly, on the big big thumb, she tells a kiss.