Gemini Rain

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Lauren lowering the tone of her voice because of the seriousness of her mother’s mistake.
    ‘Sorry sweetpea. Remember never be afraid I’ll always be by your side, girls together yeah?’
    ‘Girls together,’ Emma happily responded lifting up her hand to Laurens placing her small palm against her mothers in a now familiar pact then softly their fingers entwined. Lauren’s elegant long fingers slipping through her daughter’s similar shaped but naturally younger hand.
    ‘Now cuddle up with Pooh Bear and go to sleep. Take care and Bon nuit .’ Lauren kissed her daughter’s forehead as she turned off the small lamp.
    Checking on Keith she could see the torchlight under his blankets, forever reading or creating battles with action man and dinosaurs. ‘Good night Keith!’ The light was out before she finished saying his name. ‘ He’ll probably turn it back on as soon as he hears me going down the stairs ,’ she smiled to herself, ‘and don’t turn that torch back on. I’ll be up in ten minutes to check.’
    But then she changed her mind heading for his room; turning on his small lamp light she quietly sat on his bed whispering, ‘Hey mister, come out of there for a minute please .’
    Keith and action man poked their heads out from under the blanket . Lauren hesitated for a minute he smiled that lovely cheeky grin and big soft brown eyes. And she liked his new tight haircut even though she nearly cried when she heard him informing the hairdresser that he wanted a number one cut . When the young French barber said he would check with his mother first , Keith stared at him in disbelief, Lauren felt an arg ument ensuing but thankfully the barber also saw her expression leaving at least a centimetre of hair without giving any f urther comment or opportunity for Keith to argue .
    ‘What is it Mammy?’ Keith returned Lauren to present day.
    ‘Do you like living here mister?’ she asked softly as her heart melted with his smile.
    ‘Yep,’
    ‘Do you miss home and everybody there? Which would you prefer?’ she dreaded his answer.
    ‘Yep and both.’
    ‘We can’t have both.’
    Bending his head forward he gave her that grinning I know look arching one of his eyebrows, it was a comical face sometimes with the gaps in his teeth showing where his baby ones once took pride of place. Trying to hold in her laughter she got up from the bed but he stopped her midway, ‘I just wish Daddy was here too and then your dream would be… would be all together, wouldn’t it?’
    Lauren felt a sharp blade running down her throat, closing her eyes s he bitterly thought, if only he knew Keith wouldn’t have said that, thankfully she hoped he was too young to know or understand.  Leaning down to kiss him and hugging him tightly she whispered, ‘but you and Emma are here with me and that’s paradise to me.’
    ‘Night Night Mammy, I love you.’
    ‘Take care mister, love you too.’   
    As was natural with children, both were now practically fluent in French and Lauren was still struggling. Both Emma and Keith had no fear or inhibition to learn something new, they knew the only way they would make new friends was by learning how to speak to them first. And they had school, while with Lauren her lack of constant daily practice was a big drawback.
    Contemplating taking private lessons, she could now understand what people said to her most of the time. But her difficulty with pronouncing the words because of her Dublin accent and reading was proving to be a greater obstacle than she first t hought, ‘thank God for Google Translator, although not p erfect it’s close enough and it definitely gives the gist of what I’m trying to translate .’
    The CDs also he lped but the people on them were so correct in pronouncing their words while in reality and in particular, the South of France it’s like they sing their words and of course they possessed their own Provencal lingo, it was difficult but beautiful.
    Had she done

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