The Life Coach Less Travelled

The Life Coach Less Travelled

Susanna

I think I can remember a time when I was happy, before my sister was born. My clearest memory of her is when I was five, going on six.

My saliva was dribbling onto the skin which tickled my lip gently, just at the moment I breathed in fiercely, then sandwiched a chunk of forearm flesh between my teeth, gripping hard, counting one, two, three. I howled protractedly before deciding to lie down and writhe on the rug, rewarded by the sound of the legs of kitchen chairs scraping the parquet and startled, questioning voices already approaching.

Lucia, who had been chattering incoherently, insouciantly and clumsily building bright colourful towers and knocking them down to build higher or more interesting ones, jumped at the noise. Instantly she amplified it with her own shocked and frightened wailing, her huge, brown eyes like rain-washed, precious stones.

My parents flung through the door like commandos. My father’s alarmed eyes focussed on Lucia, whilst Mama dropped dramatically to my side. By then I was sucking the flesh above my wrist, whimpering as I alternated between glancing at my mother’s face and turning my head to calibrate the response of Papa. I turned up the volume, holding up my arm, unnoticed by him. His back to me, he had snatched Lucia up into his arms, breathing soothing words in his native tongue into the dark, feathery hair above her ear.

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