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RAYS OF HOPE PART 3

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I and the Smiths. "I'm sorry about your Mum...” she said. Forty minutes later, I sneaked out of the hospital to the nearest ice cream vendor and bought two large cones for us.  I hid the ice cream in my cloths when I got to the reception and pass the Argus eyed nurses on duty.  Immediately I got back into her ward, we closed the door and we began licking them. "Thanks Rose" she said, devouring the ice-cream as quickly as she could with all the wires and tubes attached to the body "I have been begging mum for ice cream for almost three months now but she wouldn't let me touch it, she keeps saying it is doctor's order that I shouldn't touch ice cream" I laughed at this. "Eat everything then if you can" I encouraged “if you need more, I'll get it because I have magic and the nurses will never see me when I walk past them in the reception." I said conspiratorially. We were still licking the ice cream when her par...

KIMBERLY PART SEVEN.

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(Continued from the previous part) Kim was unhappy in her new home. Mrs. Smith stood up from her chair and went to where Kim was sitting; she put her arms around her and buried her face in her hair. “It’s okay” she said into her hair “We know how much you love this family and I hope you know how fond of you we are. You are like a family member already and it hurts to see you leave, but we have no choice in this case. Your aunt is your only surviving relative and no matter how much we love and want to retain you, we cannot because it is not right to keep you away from her….” “But I don’t want to leave!” she managed to say amid sobs. Kim didn’t sleep throughout the night. She tossed and turned on the bed. In the end, she gave up trying to sleep and sat up all night on the bed, thinking of what was going to happen to her. She didn’t relish the thought of living with her aunt. She and her mom had lived with her aunt before her mother died and she remembered vividly the ...