Melanie Rose - Could It Be Magic?

‘Nicole made you the get well card.’

‘It’s lovely,’ I told her with a smile. ‘You got my hair just right.’

‘It was what it looked like when the lightning got you,’ she answered. ‘It stuck up just like that and sort of glowed.’

I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach.

‘You saw it?’ I asked in dismay. ‘You saw the lightning strike me?’ Nurse Sally’s question about who I’d been with at the time of the accident echoed in my ears.

Nicole nodded. ‘It was awesome!’

‘Nicole!’ Grant scolded his daughter, ‘Don’t make it sound as if you enjoyed seeing Mummy getting hurt.’

‘I saw it, I saw it,’ cried one of the twins as he jumped at the end of the bed, narrowly missing my feet and causing waves of pain to shoot across my back. ‘Mummy was on fire!’

Grant looked as if he were about to chastise the boy I assumed was Toby, when a sorrowful little voice from the corner piped up. We all stopped talking as the second twin repeated sadly, ‘That isn’t Mummy. My mummy’s gone, and she’s here instead!’

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