(aka Bike) Part 848 by Angharad |
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I sneaked upstairs and listened while Simon read the riot act. “Right you two boys, I hope you’re going to have a good time staying with us, I know Lady Catherine has got you some nice things for Christmas–there were murmurs of approval for that–now you two are bigger than my three girls, I don’t want to hear any throwing your weight around or bullying them–got it?”
“What do we call you, Lord Cameron?” asked Danny, I think, I couldn’t actually see them.
“You okay with Uncle Simon, and my wife as Auntie Cathy–it’s less of a mouthful, isn’t it?
“Right there’s a wardrobe for your clothes and a chest of drawers if you need them. The bathroom is across the way, it has a shower in it, so I expect you to be clean. The kitchen is absolutely full of food, but please ask before you take anything, Cathy might have planned a use for it. Oh put your washing in the basket in the bathroom–if it isn’t in there, it won’t get washed. I expect you in bed by nine at the latest–the girls go earlier, but we read them a story every night.”
I heard laughing at that. “What’s so funny–they like it and so do we.”
“It’s a bit babyish,” commented Billy.
“They’re girls, they’re different to boys and it isn’t babyish at all, it allows us to spend some time with them, which we all enjoy. Right then, one last thing, if you want to leave the house or garden, let one of us know–we need to know where you are, oh and if you break anything or do anything stupid–tell us, if we find out the hard way, there’ll be hell to pay, and it could mean we call the duty social worker–that means a home wherever they can fit you in–you’ll probably be split up and I know the food will be better here. You’ll miss out on your Christmas presents too.
“Trish, go and tell your mother, we’ll be down in a moment to finish the tree.” Trish came out of the room and as she saw me I put my finger to my lips and sent her downstairs.
“Uncle Simon, is Trish really your daughter?”
“Of course she is, why?”
“She reminds me of someone who used to live at the home.”
“That young lady has never lived in a children’s home,” Simon stated this quite categorically, even though it was a fib.
“Okay, I must be wrong then.”
“I should think so,” Simon pooh-poohed the suggestion with bluster.
“I wish you were my dad,” said Billy, which I knew would make Simon’s day. “I’d like to have a rich dad, who was a lord or king or something.”
“It brings its own responsibilities, young man.”
“Yeah, but it must be cool to be a king or a lord.”
“It can help with making restaurant reservations, that’s about all–do you have problems making them now?” Simon was taking the piss.
“No, I don’t–I just tell ‘em I’m a king.”
“Isn’t that an untruth?” asked Simon, who’d just blatantly told one or two porkies of his own.
“No I am a king, Billy King–see?”
Simon was going to have to watch these two. I wandered into the room as if I’d just come up the stairs. “Okay boys, have you settled in, yet?”
“We’re just doin’ that, Auntie Cathy,” answered Danny.
“Simon has explained everything?” They both nodded.
“Right then, Billy King and Danny Maiden, welcome to our home, I hope your Christmas is going to be memorable for its enjoyment. It’s only you who will spoil it.”
“Here,” said Simon, “if Billy is a king, is Danny a maiden–in which case shouldn’t he be with the girls?” I’m sure Danny was sick of hearing that one.
“I ain’t no girl–like that woofter we had back at the ‘ome, Patrick call me Patricia, now he was a girl if ever there was one. I’m all boy, I am.”
“Yes dear, we can see that, Simon was only joking, and it means we won’t have to suffer the joke again, doesn’t it, Darling?” I said pointedly to Simon. I didn’t want reminders about Trish flagged up in his mind, which is twisted enough already if the reports were accurate. This kid had a few problems.
Simon blushed and shrugged his shoulders, “I guess not. C’mon, kids, let’s go and do the tree.”
“Can you send Trish up to the bedroom, darling?” I asked Simon as they went down. He nodded as he led the boys down the stairs.
I waited for Trish in my bedroom, when she came in, I shut the door. “Have I done something wrong, Mummy?”
“No, sweetheart, I just don’t want us disturbed. Danny thinks he recognised you.”
“Oh great,” her lip puckered and she wasn’t far from tears.
“It’s okay, Simon told him you had never been in a home and that you were our daughter. I hope that means an end to the matter, so just deny it if he says anything and get the girls to support you. I’ll try and speak to Meems, just in case she doesn’t understand.”
“What if he, grabs me by my winkie?”
“That is a matter for getting rid of him–that would constitute a serious assault. I know he’s got problems, but I don’t want you provoking anything like that, because I suspect you’re cleverer than him–girls usually are. I also want him to go away–I mean I want both the boys to leave here feeling that they enjoyed themselves in a positive way. You live here with your sisters, I hope you’ll be pleasant to our guests.”
“He was horrid to me.”
“No, Trish, he was horrid to Patrick, because he didn’t understand. We’ve done away with the ambiguity.”
“What’s biguity, Mummy?”
“Ambiguity is where something or someone could be something else, so they aren’t clearly what you originally thought they were. That upsets some people, he thought you were a boy because that’s what he’d been told–you declared you were a girl, although you still looked the same. So he was confused. I hope we’ve removed any doubt as to who and what you are.”
“If he sees my name on anything, he’s going to know isn’t he?”
“Like your school stuff–damn I’d forgotten about that. Lock it all in the bedroom, you shouldn’t actually need anything before school anyway.”
“Okay, Mummy.”
“If he does guess, we’ll have to deal with it, won’t we?”
“I hope he doesn’t, Mummy.”
“We’ll cope, darling, won’t we, whatever happens.”
“I hope so, Mummy.”
“We will, sweetheart, we have love in this house, that’ll get us through anything.”
I opened my arms and she threw herself into them and sobbed and I held her tightly and cooed to her. “Life is going to do this to us every now and again, you know.”
“Why, Mummy, it’s so unfair–I’m not hurting anyone.”
“I’m afraid it does when you’re a bit different, but we’re all here to help you deal with it, we all love you very much.”
“I love you too, Mummy.” We hugged again, then after pausing to think, she asked, “Have people been unkind to you, Mummy?”
“Oh yes, sweetheart, and sometimes they were people who should have known better.”
“What do you mean, Mummy.”
“I mean they were people I thought I could trust and they betrayed that trust.”
“Does that mean, I can’t trust anyone, ever?”
“No darling, but it means you have to think carefully when you make friends, about what you tell people. Hopefully, by then, you’ll appear to be a normal girl in all but one place and that we’ll sort as soon as we can, but it won’t be for several years yet, Trish.”
“I know, Mummy–I wish I was a girl like you.”
“You are, sweetheart, you are.”
Comments
Abit of a Handfull
that is an understatement as for as those boys are concerned. Keep up the good work.
Did I actualy make first responce today
Simon and Cathy are really
Simon and Cathy are really going to have to keep an eye on the two boys, especially Danny. If Danny or Billy start something, the other one will "feed off that". Just having one boy would prevent that problem. I do hope that the little talk Simon had with the boys will end all speculation regarding Trish and help to keep them in line while they are in Tom's home. Maybe, if they act out, a little "petticoat discipline" might come in handy, then Trish, Livvie and Meems can show the boys how to wear dresses. Jan
'people who should have known better'
Most people only learn the hard way, and then not very often. Perhaps these two will go away a little bit smarter than when they arrived, we'll have to see.
KJT
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
The Danny Problem
Given the size of the household, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to ensure that Trish and Danny are never alone together, and whenever the two are in the same room, the other girls or one of the adults are also present
Normally, that would be easier said than done, but since the three girls stick rigidly together for most activities, and the boys presumably will as well (it wouldn't do their interpretation of "street cred" any good to knowingly associate with girls - let alone ones several years younger). Besides which, there's always the threat of a quick phone call to Nora, the local children's social care team, or over the Christmas period, the Emergency Duty Team (EDT).
But whatever happens over the Christmas period, one thing's for certain - Cathy will do her level best to try and tame the two boys, so they enter their next placement in a better frame of mind than at present.
(In case anyone's wondering, I'm roughly aware of how social care teams work because I help maintain, write user guidance on, and offer helpdesk support for my local authority's social care database / recording software)
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Keep the boys busy.
You know the old saying about idle hands.... Simon and Cathy can minimize the chance of the boys recognizing Trish by keeping them occupied with having a good time and helping about the place. Don't give them time to figure it out.
But knowing our authoress, she weaves some devious plots, they could still find out, but it would ruin Christmas. I hope she's in the holiday spirit and let's the Camerons have a happy holiday season. They certainly have have enough friends and relatives over, who have a lot to be thankful for, especially having Cathy in their lives.
Hugs,
Trish-Ann
~There is no reality, only perception~
Hugs,
Trish Ann
~There is no reality, only perception~
Cathy And Simon
And company can help the boys to understand abot Trish. Almost wish that she is outed somehow to see if they can accept her.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Young Danny
"i'm all boy i am " seems to be full of bluster!!!.....But could he be trying to avoid admitting something to himself?
Kirri
A dangerous situation
Boys of that age have no sense and are just learning to be macho. A very dangerous situation in this household.
Thats one of the worse thing a person can say
You just delegitimized half of the earth population by saying that there identity ( or learning of it) leads to senseless things.Saying that Boys at that age are "A very dangerous situation in this household" ,as you didn't say those specific boys but boys their age, is a hateful chauvinist thing to say ( and yes it does constitute as chauvinist as it indicate superiority of one group over the other) .Also I think you haven't been around lots of boys that age cause if you do you'll notice that while there is the whole macho bit its not that big of a deal and they are generally nice ( one of my sister friend is the peace maker of the group and the most sensible 10 year old I know, He manged to diffuse any argument that arouse in "the gang" in peaceful ways)
I'm also against the whole girls are smarter/cleverer thing ("I suspect you’re cleverer than him—girls usually are"). it seems to me that far to many times in trans stories the intellectual/mature part of males is being negated , and for the life of me I can't realize why.
There are some immature, senseless and stupid people all around the world in all ages and in every gender , and they appear at the same rate all across those different groups.
I agree and disagree
Cathy is building up her daughter. The fact is, her daughter is smarter than the boys. But then, most girls already know this truth, whether it is truth or not.
Now if this were stated in front of the boys, I would have more problems with the statement. They need love too, and ego building, the real kind mind. Not the macho type that is a defense against the real world. Simon is a mixture of both, he has chinks in his defenses that he desperately tries to cover (and Cathy knows about), and is completely confident in himself in other areas.
I am interested in what Billy's problems are.
I said this previous, but I suspect they have new parents.
Every chapter ends with us on tenter hooks
I guess the problem will be with Danny.
Just watch, Ang will work Leon into the mix.
The girls don't know about Charlie ?
Cefin