A Wedding To Remember

I wanted to postpone the wedding but Gavin wouldn't hear of it.   "Mum'll come round.   Wendy" he'd said.   But would she...

    “Wendy, wake up, love.”   Mum’s voice brought me out of a deep sleep.   “Your breakfast’s nearly ready.”
    I opened my eyes and looked straight over to the window and breathed a sigh of relief. The sun was shining, and it was going to be a beautiful day.   Or was it?   There was a huge cloud hovering over me but it had nothing to do with the weather.
    “Are you still worried about Mrs. Simpson?”   Mum asked, sitting down on the edge of my bed.
    “I just can’t help it,” I said with a sigh.   Then I glanced over to the cot where my baby daughter should have been asleep.

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Someone To Love

When we found the puppy I didn’t suspect Carly and I would find so much more...

    “But, Mummy, he’s looking for a home!”   Carly’s huge blue eyes were pleading with me as she hugged the puppy in her arms.   “Can’t we keep him?   Oh, please...”
    “I wish we could, sweetheart,” I said with a sigh.   “But we can’t afford a puppy and anyway, this one’s got a collar, which means he already belongs to someone.”
    “Well he can’t like them much else he wouldn’t have run away,” Carly pouted.   “Anyway now he’s here, and he wants to stay!”
    Carly was almost five, and with a very determined mind.

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