Our Family

My family is very happy now but before my parents got married there was anything but happiness as my dad's family and my mum's family had been in a feud that had started 150 years ago. When my mum, Pearl Pages, was a child she was taught to always hate my dad's family and never got to know them personally. She was desperate to meet them and snuck over to their house one day to see if they were as bad as her family said.

After opening the front door she quietly crept in and hid under the couch. A little boy who was about her age came running down the stairs with a big lollypop in one hoof and a sea shell in the other. When she saw the lollypop she couldn't help but whisper yum but it turns out her whispering, is talking to everyone else. The little boy had heard her and came over to see what made the noise. She realised that there was nowhere to escape so she trotted out from under the couch and showed herself. The first question he asked was if she wanted a drink ,she said no and they played for the whole day without thinking about her poor parents who were probably worried sick about her. She couldn't tell the time but she knew it was time to go. She galloped home and said that she had been at the park and just left it at that, she couldn't risk telling her parents that she had been to 'that family's' house. They would be furious at her which would make her feel very bad.

At dinner that night they explained to my mum what had started the feud. She didn't know what to say as she felt that any words would give the impression that she knew something so she nodded her head and listened contently to the story she had longed to  know.