As Joe entered the house she saw her Aunt May shaking her head.
"I told Jake that it was a bad idea to come here at this time of year," she told Uncle Bruce. "It was just asking for trouble." She looked up and saw Joe.
Joe turned away. She felt worse than ever. Her aunt was right. They shouldn't have come, they should have stayed home.
Joe headed up the stairs towards her bedroom.
"Joe, wait!" her mum called, but Joe didn't stop. She broke into a trot. Kate, her mum, sighed and let her go.
...
In her room, Joe pulled out the locket she had found one day under the hedge at home. She had been very young when she had found it.
Kate had told her it was from the fairies. Even though Joe hadn't ever told anyone, she still believed in fairies.
The locket had the words:
Wish and you will get. Look and you will find. Dream and you will go far. Follow your heart!
Joe loved the words. She believed they held a secret power that she just had to find.
"Joe!" Kate called from outside Joe's door.
Joe hurriedly shoved the locket back into her drawer and locked it. She swung off the bed and opened the door.
"It's dinner time," Kate told her daughter.
Joe followed her mother downstairs.
...
The doctor looked grave. "It's not good," he told Kate. "He has damaged his spine," the doctor said some other things that Joe didn't hear. He has damaged his spine kept floating around her head.
By the time Joe and her mother left the hospital, Joe had made up her mind. She knew just what she was going to do.
She didn't talk about it to her mother. She knew her mother would never let her do it, but she had understood enough of what the doctor had said to know that her father could die.
Kate tried to make things seem better, but Joe knew her mother better than to be fooled by what she said.
...
As soon as Joe got home she race up to her bedroom. She pulled out her locket, some jumpers, pants and phone. She put them all into a bag and hid the bag in her wardrobe. She then pulled out some note paper.
She knew what she wanted to say, but for some reason she couldn't get it down onto the paper. She sighed and put down the pen. She would write the note later.
Kate knocked on the door. "You OK?" she asked popping her head around the door. She was worried. Joe had hardly said anything, she had just gone straight to her room.
"Fine," Joe said, sitting down on the screwed up pieces of note paper.
Kate decided that Joe wanted to be left alone and she closed the door and went back downstairs.
...
That night when everyone was asleep, Joe hopped out of bed and grabbed her phone. She dialled the number of a boy she had met a few days ago.
"Hello?"
"Hi Alf, it's Joe," Joe said.
"What's up?" Alf asked. He was a strange boy, but even for him this was a weird hour to be ringing at.
"I think I need you to repay that good deed I did," Joe told him. When she had first arrived here she had found Alf. He had been sitting by the river looking angry. His step-dad had found out about him owning a motor bike and ordered him to get rid of it.
Joe had taken a liking to Alf at once and she offered to hide the motor bike in the garden of the house she was staying in.
"What do you need me to do?" Alf asked Joe.
"I need you to take me somewhere!"
I hope you guys liked this. My last chapter got good feedback and so I hope you like this lot!
-Willow
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