Many Worlds of Albie Bright (2016)
“Alba turns back to smile at me as she reaches the top of the stairs.
“What for?”
Lifting the guard rail, Alba wheels her chair off the stairlift.
“That was the first time I’ve danced since the accident,” she replies. “Since Mum died. I’d forgotten how much fun it could be.”
Alba nudges my – I mean her – bedroom door open, wheeling herself forward as I follow close behind. Grandad Joe was snoring in his armchair when we got back home, the first Back to the Future film on the TV a...s we sneaked past the living-room door. Now it was time for me to find out what Alba really meant when she said she knew what I had to do to find Mum again.
“Do you still miss her?” I ask.
“Every day,” she replies. Alba glances up at the square of stars shining through the skylight window. “Sometimes I sit here in the dark, looking through my telescope at the stars and I remember all the things she told me.MoreLess
“What for?”
Lifting the guard rail, Alba wheels her chair off the stairlift.
“That was the first time I’ve danced since the accident,” she replies. “Since Mum died. I’d forgotten how much fun it could be.”
Alba nudges my – I mean her – bedroom door open, wheeling herself forward as I follow close behind. Grandad Joe was snoring in his armchair when we got back home, the first Back to the Future film on the TV a...s we sneaked past the living-room door. Now it was time for me to find out what Alba really meant when she said she knew what I had to do to find Mum again.
“Do you still miss her?” I ask.
“Every day,” she replies. Alba glances up at the square of stars shining through the skylight window. “Sometimes I sit here in the dark, looking through my telescope at the stars and I remember all the things she told me.MoreLess
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