Birth

It rained almost all day. The rain is obsessive and banal where we’re from…I spent the day finishing things at the Pykes’. In just a few days my peony has become a flowering burst of laughter, with all its petals opened. I stayed a while to look at it, wide-eyed with changing pinks. It will soon be lifted and brought back to the bed that gave it life. I’m in awe and sad at the same time. I’ll have to find another witness, my road to me is far from finished… Mrs Pyke has paid me the amount we agreed upon. I never like these moments, but they are necessary. She told me that she’d be in touch for gardening work, once the renovations were all finished. I came back home and put the money in the box that I use as a piggy bank. Mum also gave me a bit of money from Dad’s pension, and I do the normal shopping.