Tuesday, 12 July 2011

The Butterfly

'Mrs Riley, we're officers Lane and Cubric.' said the police officer holding up his badge at the door. 'May we come in and talk to Joey about the incident today?' continued officer Lane.
'Yes of course, please come in.' answered Mrs Riley. 'You know about my sons....'
'Eidetic memory.' interrupted officer Lane.
'Yes, Joey is just through here.' said Mrs Riley pointing left towards the lounge.
'Hello Joey, I'm officer Lane, I would like it if you could tell me about what happened in O'Connor street today.'
I turned to look at the officers and smiled, I closed my eyes to remember. The butterflies were floating by me, I liked the purple and yellow one, they were flying in the sun. My mum was by the red box when a lady walked past, I watched it fly by her pink t-shirt, I wanted to follow it but my mum would have been mad. There was a nice lady sat across the road, she had two little brown dogs by her feet, I always wanted a dog. People were walking past all the time, I could see the toy store behind the lady with the dogs, mum said I could have a toy today. A shiny silver car beeped his horn, it was fun, it made me jump, I giggled a bit too.
My mum called me back to the red box, she put her pen in the pocket on the side of her bag and pushed the white paper into the red box. I could see it again, the butterfly was back, I think it liked me, my mum put her hand on my shoulder and we walked to the road, a blue car stopped in front of us but I could still see the toy shop where the lady was still sitting with her dogs. I looked down at my feet, I was wearing my favourite blue trainers the same as the car.
I jumped a little because there was a big bang, people were shouting, I looked up but the car was gone, the nice lady was lying on the bench, I did not know why but I smiled because the little brown dog started to run towards me. I reached for her but a nasty man pushed it away and walked past me, I watched him walk away with his hood up like my mum don't like, I remember he had a tick on his trainers too but his were white not blue, he looked back at me very angry because of the thing he was trying to hide in his sleeve, I did not see it but it was shiny like the silver car. I looked back at the dog, she looked sad but I was happy because the butterfly was back, it sat on my arm and was not scared of me.

No comments:

Post a Comment