Chapter 7
Chapter 7 I fixed myself a milky drink to calm me down and help me to go back to sleep. Milk was the obvious answer. My mum always used to put chia seeds and cardamom powder in it to give it flavour. When I was feeling low she would warm the milk up and leave it by my bed to cool down. She would stir it whilst blowing the top of the cup, then let me drink it up in one go. This was one of her rituals which is the reason why I loved her so much. I had no spice of course but I had Gerties’ chocolate flakes, so I dropped it into the hot milk, then disappeared to the toilet whilst they melted in the rim of the cup. When I returned to the kitchen, I could feel a presence behind me but as I turned around could only feel draught from the kitchen window like it had been opened. Seeing nothing, I proceeded to drink my cup of milk straight up in one go imagining my mum’s spices instead of the flow of chocolate was soothing me. ...