Mich - a story

I really didn't know what to write this week, so I decided that I would give you a peek of a story I'm writing, might seem a bit weird to some - I'm still working on it, well here goes:


"Mich"
Chapter 1 - intro
"Cecilia - leave the cat alone."
Marcus looked over the top of his book and spotted Cecilia chasing their pet cat around the garden. Sophie walked out onto the porch at that moment, she looked angrily at Marcus and said:
"Marcus, you're doing that thing again."
"What thing..?"
"That thing were you forget Cecilia is FIVE!"
"It's a cat... Not a toy!"
"She wasn't hurting it."
They both turned silent when they saw Cecilia standing between them, she had a flower in her hand, she gave it to Sophie who smiled, it wasn't a real smile though, she hadn't truly smiled since their parents told them about the divorce. They all had different ways of handling it - Sophie preferred not to talk about it, Marcus got angry about anything and Cecilia wasn't really old enough to understand what was going on around her. None of them was able to get used to the new house. After a while in silence Marcus got the look on his face he had when he was about to say something annoying:
"Don't you have Simon coming over or something?"
"Just because I've got a boyfriend and you're miserable and lonely, doesn't mean you have to point it out all the time!"
"I'm... I'm not..."
"If you say so... But no, he's not coming over. I've promised mum to help her with the cooking and stuff."
Sophie knew that Marcus hated it when she ended a sentence with "...and stuff." But he didn't point it out this time because he knew Sophie really disliked helping their mother out, for several reasons, but mostly because the two of them didn't get along very well. It wasn't that she blamed their mother for the divorce, they all agreed that it was their father who was to blame, he hadn't cheated or anything, he'd simply not been able to live the family-life they had, he needed to get away. He'd never been a good dad, but they'd loved him anyway, but when he'd told the children that he was moving to Australia they'd gotten a real surprise. Marcus had started yelling at him, and Sophie stormed out the room, none of them had spoken with their father since. It hadn't been easy for them, but they'd kept on a brave face on because of Cecilia, they silently agreed that they couldn't sit around in front of her, when she didn't.
Cecilia was possibly the bravest and most optimistic child in the world, unlike her older siblings - Cecilia was very fond of being outside she loved plants and animals. The older siblings were both book-people. Marcus loved science and the only time he willingly went outside was at night to look at stars, as Sophie put: "you're more nerdy than what's healthy for a fifteen-yearold." He didn't really care what people said about him though, he never had. Sophie on the other hand didn't care about science at all, she loved fiction, anything that could make her forget the real world, the only time she really enjoyed leaving her room was when her boyfriend Simon visited, which he often did.
***
Once again they ate dinner in silence, summer-vacation had just started, they had no plans whatsoever. After buying the new house, there wasn't really a lot of money for things like vacations, besides their mother worked all the time. Cecilia was the only of the children who really wanted to go anyway, that was why they'd bought her the cat, they'd allowed her to name it too, she'd chosen the name "Puppy" but no-one dared telling her how ridiculous it was, not even Marcus.

After dinner Marcus and Sophie did the dishes together, after a while in silence Sophie suddenly said:
"I'm sorry about earlier..."
"Hmm?"
"I don't think you're miserable, or lonely..."
"Hmm..."
"But you shouldn't have yelled at Cecilia, she's just a child..."
"Sophie do we really have to talk about this?"
Sophie was about to say something when once again Cecilia came with a flower, she gave it to Sophie who put it in her hair.
"There's an egg in the garden."
"Cecilia leave the birds alone."
Sophie looked at Marcus and shook her head.
"It's not a bird egg, it's a big egg!"
Cecilia showed with her hands how big the egg was, it was about the size of her head, Marcus was about to say something, but Sophie shut him up by holding up her hand, and said:
"Show us the egg."
And as asked Cecilia showed them the egg, and it really was a big egg. In the garden next to the big oak tree Cecilia loved. The egg was not only big, it also had green dots. Cecilia looked up at them with her big puppy-eyes.
"Can we keep it?"
They looked at each other and then at Cecilia, this egg just couldn't be real. After a while Marcus answered:
"Yes, we'll keep it."
And so they did, they kept the egg nice and warm, and they waited for it too hatch. They named it too, "Mich" they called it.