Putting Alice Back Together
“It sounds babyish, but at seventeen, very nearly eighteen, I’d never actually spent a night on my own.Well, Mum rarely went out and if she did, say, she had a nightshift, there was always Bonny, or sometimes Eleanor would come over with the kids. But this was the first time I had the house completely to myself for a whole night and I found out that I didn’t like it one bit.It was Sunday night and a week till my music practical exam, but on Friday Bonny and Lex left for Australia and I didn’t kn...ow what I was dreading the most.Both.I didn’t want it to be next week, I didn’t want her to be gone, so I tried not to think about it.Mum rang in the evening—it sounded like they were having fun. I heard Bonny laughing in the background and I lay on the bed and spoke to Mum for a bit, said that everything was great. Then I headed to my piano and practised for hours—played and played and tried to get it right. It was fantastic. I hadn’t got it completely right, and I accepted that could never happen.MoreLess
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