Chapter 4
The next week was beautiful. During the night, that is. Every night, Nancy, Walther and Olive looked up at the stars. On the first night, Centaurus was in the sky. Olive knew this because she used to watch the stars with her parents. Used to. Before they were taken to the concentration camp, they would watch the stars out of her window. Nancy was surprised by her knowledge of the stars. The next night, Gemini was high in the galaxy. Some nights, Miss Swallow would come up too as she enjoyed stargazing. Miss Swallow brought her radio with her so she could listen to “Stargazer’s Radio” which taught her about new constellations every time she listened.
By Wednesday morning, Nancy set out with Miss Swallow to go and search for Ken, Ted and Luke Yurt. They were extremely annoyed with those boys. Nancy knew they were troublemakers; the three of them.
After trekking through the village, they found them sat under the school’s apple tree laughing at Mrs. Driver at 46 Mulberry Avenue. She had just dropped her shopping. “Oi!” Shouted Nancy. “What?” Laughed Luke. Nancy walked over. Luke put his leg out(to trip her up). Luckily, Nancy was smart and walked around. “We want to speak to you!” Nancy said, rather strongly. ” About what?” replied Ted.
“About telling the school we have Kindertransport children staying with us!” Said Miss Swallow, her voice trembling. “D’you really think we’ll listen to you? After we found out this amazing secret?” Exclaimed Ken.
“Yes!” Nancy sighed under her breath. “Well, you’ll ‘ave to pay a cost! It’ll be a great one!” Ken decided.
“What’ll it be?” asked Miss Swallow wincing, she was hoping it wouldn’t be too extreme.
“100 chicken eggs, 5 bags of bacon and sausages!” They all agreed. “Oh Hill-Crackers!” Miss Swallow said, stamping her foot.
Nancy and Miss Swallow walked away, after shaking hands with the boys. Their deal was closed. “These boys are rather demanding, I didn’t even think they knew what sausages were!” Nancy said surprised.
Nancy ran ahead of Miss Swallow; she wanted to speak to Olive, desperately. As she arrived home, she was out of breath. “Olive… I…need…to…speak…to….you!” she cried. Nancy held onto the wall. Olive came rushing down the stairs. “Hi Nancy! Why do you seem so, out of breath?”
“Well, I have just been running to speak to you. Do you remember your love, Luke?” Nancy asked. “Oh yes! My love! Where is he? Did he tell you?” Olive asked.
“Enough with the questions. It’s great that you remember who he is, because that brings me to my next question. Can you please spend more time with him, please?”
“Are you serious? I can spend more time with him!” She replied.
“Yes, I need you to speak to him, so you can convince him not to tell the whole school!”
“Alright, I can do that!” Said Olive, her voice trembling with happiness.
Many, many years passed and every week Miss Swallow wrote back to Nancy, until there were none. After two weeks of trying to contact Miss Swallow, she gave up. To Nancy’s surprise, Miss Swallow wasn’t dead, she was trying to come to London to visit Nancy.
Fortunately, Olive and Walther kept in close contact with me, and Olive still liked Luke. Walther was only just learning to read and write, so he tried writing letters of his own, but Olive had to send me a follow-up letter of what it was meant to say. Everyone kept in close contact and Olive and I were life-long best-friends.
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