Coming soon on kindle – The Watchman by Matt Langford

Excerpt…

Chapter 1 – Tomorrow

It’s a little while later and I think we’re home.  I’ve been on holiday before so I know how it feels when we will eventually go home.  Holidays normally mean walks, arshee’s and Dad going off at night.  The last few days have been about unpacking, sandwiches and shouting.  We never have sandwiches on holiday.  And we’ve only had one long walk.

This time we’re not going home.  We’re home already.  I’m pretty certain of that.

The day we left our old home was a funny day.  I woke up to this horrible smell and all sticky bits on my face and pillow.  Dad walked in and said ‘For fuck’s sake, Adam’ and then shouted for Mum.  He went off muttering ‘today of all days’ but I didn’t understand his words.  Jake and Jocelyn poked their heads round the door, smiled, and ran off.

I wasn’t sure what to do so I just stayed in bed without moving.  Mum then walked in with a smile.  She smiles a lot.  She walked towards me in a way that made me feel a little better.  Mum always does that in the morning.  She helped me out of bed and gave me a cuddle.

I thought about running off and playing with her, but my belly felt a little funny, so I walked to the bathroom and started to run a bath.  I took all my clothes off and sat on the toilet watching the water fill up the bath.  The sound and look of the water filling up to the top of the bath always makes me feel happy.  I don’t why.

I hardly noticed Mum walk in a few minutes later.  She came into the bathroom, shut the door, put her hand in the water and stopped the water from running.  She came over to me and smiled.  I could hear Dad shouting at Jake and Joss.  I never know if I’m going to spend an hour or a minute in the bath until I’m actually in there.  I climbed into the bath on that morning and didn’t like the heat of it that much, so decided to make it a short one.  After a short scrub I got up quickly and covered Mum and the walls with water.