Read Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles Online

Authors: Sabine Durrant

Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Humorous stories, #Juvenile Fiction, #England, #Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, #Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), #Family & Relationships, #Social Issues, #Parenting, #Teenage girls, #Family, #Mothers and daughters, #Girls & Women, #Social Issues - General, #Friendship, #Family - General, #Social Issues - Adolescence, #Adolescence, #Emotions & Feelings, #Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings, #Diaries, #Diary fiction, #Motherhood

Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles (24 page)

I don’t believe it! I’ve just seen William. He’s on his roof. He must have climbed out of the bathroom window, and now he’s hanging on to the chimney, leaning out and waving. I just stood up, so I could wave too. It felt precarious; there was nothing to hold on to. I had to lean back against the window, but it was wonderful. I could see William waving at me, and I was smiling so hard I thought my face was going to break. When you stand up, I never realized, you can see across the roofs of the houses on his street to the river. You can see the bridge and the tower blocks beyond. And beyond that London, Paris, les de Bellechasses. There’s William, my William, waving at me like the mad boy he is, and behind him, stretching out for miles and miles, is the whole rest of the world.

Other books

The Snowball Effect by Holly Nicole Hoxter
Hercules: A Matter of Trust by Heather Brooks
Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
Will Eisner by Michael Schumacher