Holidays End. Chapter 9.

Carl knew it was coming. Beryl had had enough of them. In mid-January she told the boys they were going home at the end of the month. Harley asked if Sarah was home.

Beryl said it did not matter you 2 can look after yourselves she has to back soon. Carl finally tells Beryl that he thinks Sarah expected her to take care of them and that she won’t be back for a long time. Beryl rings and finds out there are new tenants in their house. Beryl now knows that the boys have been dumped on her. She throws the boys out. She takes them back in the morning. Carl figures out that she only took them back because of the social security money. Beryl has been getting Kerry’s cheques

Birthday. Chapter 10.

The boys are enrolled in school. Carl has to attend Hendon High school meaning a bus trip every day Maddie and Justine take the same bus. There is a sort of pecking order on the bus, the cool kids at the back and kids like Carl at the front Carl is starting to see Beryl as a sort of mother figure but she puts him in his place.

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 “ I’m not your mother Carl” He has his 16^th birthday She tells the boys that Kerry is their mother, Harley wants to know if she loves them since she keeps going away.

Joy. Chapter 11.

A letter arrives saying the social security money for Carl is being cut off because he is now 16. Beryl cant do anything about it because she has been cashing Kerry’s cheques.

She tells Carl she cant manage without the money and if they want to stay with her he needs to quit school and get a job. Carl does not want to leave school but Beryl pressures him. She says that Harley has been skipping school and that’s Carl’s responsibility not hers. If he does not get a job she might have to put Harley into an orphanage. Carl gets a job for 3 weeks as a groundsman at the bowls club. He started to look for work again and each morning made sure Harley went to school.