everything is going well. Edward and Neville are playing at the moment, do you want to speak to Neville?’ enquired Joseph in a sombre delivery, as he really wanted to talk but found the conversation awkward.
‘Yeah sure put him on’ replied Liona eagerly. Joseph left the telephone device and set off to find Neville in the garden, shouting his name through the tiny gap in between the French doors. Joseph broke into a jog as he opened the doors whilst informing Neville his mother was on the phone. As Neville began walking through the house Joseph attended to Edward, making faces and generally keeping him entertained as good as his brother does. Neville picked up the receiver and place to the ear and mouthpiece. Neville is quite a plump boy with small legs, on picking up the device it was identified just how small he was due to the telephone device receding his head and chin. Neville initiated in a monosyllabic conversation with his mother for around two minutes, until she asked how school was going for him, resulting in Neville clamping up and declaring that it is all going well even though he visualised his books nestled on his duvet in his bedroom with unchecked work set out by his tutor Mrs Artoi, his French stand-in tutor for Miss Bomiere. She is a lot nicer to him, or either an easier person for Neville to get away with his pranks and late or stolen homework.
‘Well, I hope you’re not lying to me Neville, otherwise I will have to come home and sort you out!’ ended Liona ferociously in a joking informal manner, although Neville didn’t think so, and was planning on urgently starting his homework as soon as the call had ended. Neville peered as Joseph approached from the study to the patio where Neville was leaning next to the mossy damp blood red bricks of the house. The crusty deceased leaves gushing towards his feet made him feel cold inside, sending a shivered to the very deepest nerve. Joseph watched intriguingly upon Neville as his eyes deserted the call to be placed high in the sky eying the clumpy white fluff drift gradually, parting to reveal a crystal pure blue sky. Joseph crept slowly from onto the patio to retreat to the conversation with Liona.
Liona carried on talking briefly before returning her device to the holster on her short denim jeans, only patches of blue revealed, the rest covered with mud, grass and other stains that turn the stomach. Looking around her she found acres of wilderness, only to be surrounded by her deep red unwashed 4x4 to her right. The ground beneath her was a light brown colour with a hint of grey. All dusty and alone, the heat pounding her neck from the ball of fire positioned to on tip of her car roof, shimmying of the bonnet and mirrors, making it difficult to see. As she looked directly at the rays unintentionally she spotted a dark intrusion in the distance where it seemed that the world ended. The waves of heat coming of the object in the distance made her feel even more hot, enticing her to wipe a collection of sizzling sweat from her forehead instantaneously. She looked again even though it was agonising to do so and she decided to head for her vehicle to some water in the trunk. Her boots made a creaking sound on every step as if they were to break and had turned into cardboard from the suns infectious beaming. She located opened the passenger door and lifted her rucksack from underneath the storage compartment and placed on the faded seat to begin looking for refreshments. Scurrying in her bag she noticed a prolonged humming noise. She left the bag and took a step back to look above her for a helicopter or plane from which the sound would be coming from. As Liona looked around the sky she found that it wasn’t in the sky and continued her search for water.
‘There you are’ shouted Liona to herself, realising that she was shouting and on her own. Nevertheless, she carried on and unscrewed the bottle and placed the water to her lips, where she gulped the
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