Lily Daly. The 13 year old in foster care who has a passion for football. What will happen when her best friend Daisy surprises her with tickets to an England match?
Will Lily be able to live out her dream of playing football as a career?
Will Lily...
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It was now around 5:30 so I decided to 'unpack' the very few things that I had bought with me and just look around my room to familiarise myself. Rachel walked in with her laptop in her hand, passing it to me before sitting on my bed signalling for me to join her.
"Hey kiddo, I found all of these things for you but be honest if you don't like them because I won't bother ordering them for you and you can find some other stuff instead" I scrolled through the numerous baskets on the tabs of Rachel's laptop. They contained sports clothes, casual clothes, smart clothes, underwear, bags, makeup, and lots of other lovely things.
"They are perfect thank you, who knew you would know me so well after all this time" I said chuckling.
"Well what do they say, motherly instinct" She said before scruffling my hair and getting up to leave. As she was about to exit the door I needed to say one more thing,
"Rachel thank you, thank you for everything. But I do have one more thing to ask you" She looked at me intrigued as she leant against the doorway.
"Can I start calling you mum?" Her facial expressions softened and she made made her way to my bed again. I lent against her, so that I was in her arms and she held me as tight as she could.
"Kiddo of course you can. I know I haven't been there physically to tell you this but I love you. Always will, always have"
Rachel's POV
My heart was melting. A few weeks ago I didn't know where my daughter was or what she looked like let alone her favourite food or colour. Now she was led in my arms whilst I stroked her hair, after asking me whether she could call me 'mum'. I was happy. The missing piece of life had been found and given back to me.
After around 5 minutes of sitting in a comfortable silence, following each others breathing patterns, i broke the silence to suggest an idea.
"Kiddo do you want to order in a takeaway and eat it whilst wearing our pyjamas and watching a movie?" She got up from my lap and had a huge grin on her face.
"Yes, yes and yes!" ok well that's a definite.
I went downstairs to order the takeaway (we settled on pizza) whilst lily took a shower. With the takeaway arriving in 30 minutes, it enabled me to go upstairs and get changed into my pyjamas. I got us both matching ones, so I put Lily's pair on her bed and took her drinks order so that I get those ready whilst she changed. Not so long after she came downstairs, the door bell rung signalling the pizza had arrived. With the drinks and pizza in hand, we made our way to the living room. I let Lily chose a movie on Netflix whilst telling me how daisy always chose the films so she never actually had scrolled through and seen all of the options. The excitement on her face led me to mixed feelings; sad she had never experienced it before but happy that I could be there with her to experience them. We settled on some cringey 2000s film and dug into the food.
As the credits of the films appeared on the screen, I looked down to see Lily asleep on my chest cuddled up to me. She looked so peaceful. I carefully tidied up the small mess we had made, trying my best to not wake her up. I achieved that but was left with how I was going to actually get her into her bed. Instead of waking her, I decided to carry up to bed. I lifted her bridal style and walked up to her room. Thankfully, as she was already in her pyjamas, so all I had to do was tuck her in under the covers. I placed a kiss on her forehead before I left the room, but was stopped by the sounds of her faint whispered.
"Mumma?" my heart was exploding. "Yes kiddo" I whispered back. "Thank you, I love you" her eyes glued shut as she spoke subtle whispers. "I love you too, that's what I am here for" I placed another kiss on my forehead, before leaving the room feeling full. Happy. Loved.
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Hope you like this chapter as much as I do! If you haven't read my other book you won't know, but I have decided to not continue it as I have lost motivation to complete it. This means that all of my attention is on this one! I feel like this book is going real well and i can see that through the stats we are hitting, and all I can say is THANK YOU!!! Xx
