He realized it would probably never be his home again. “I’ll be back in an hour to get you,” his grandma said.
We’ll have dinner at the hospital.Conor wasn’t listening.
He was already shutting the car door behind him. “One hour,” his grandma called to him through the closed door.
You’re going to want to be there tonight.Conor kept on walking up his own front steps.
“Conor?” his grandma called after him. But he didn’t look back.
He barely heard her pull the car out onto the street and drive away.
– • – Inside, the house smelled of dust and stale air. He didn’t even bother shutting the door behind him.
He headed straight through to the kitchen and looked out of the window.
There was the church on the rise. There was the yew tree standing guard over its cemetery.
Conor went out across his back garden. He hopped up on the garden table where his mum used to drink Pimm’s in the summer,
and he lifted himself up and over the back fence. He hadn’t done this since he was a little, little kid,
so long ago it had been his father who’d punished him for it.
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