NEW YORK MINUTE

CHAPTER 57

One of the things that Bette had told Tina when they got together again was that one of the consequences of her various illnesses was that there were days when she had no energy and just had to be left to rest for a couple of days. Bette had promised Angie that they would go out for the day but when they had woken up it had quickly become obvious that Bette was going to struggle to get out of bed that day. So Tina was left trying to amuse Angie while she was also trying to get into the script that she had been commissioned to work on. Angie was not happy and was in a bad mood. Tina had sent her to get her washing and when she hadn’t returned after five minutes Tina had picked up her notes for the script re-write and was starting to think of ways to make the script filmable.

“Mommy !!! “

Tina looked up as Angie came running back into the room.

“Yes honey “

“Sheba scratched me  – look !!! “

There was a scratch on Angie’s finger

“What were you doing to her to make her scratch you ?” Tina asked

“Nothing “

“So you are saying that the kitten just strolled up to you and clawed you “

“Eh – yes “

Tina knew when Angie was telling lies – and this was another occasion. In the last few days Angie had got away with a lot of things and it was about time that Tina stopped  her daughter’s bad habit

“Angie – I think that you were upsetting Sheba and she scratched you. She is still getting used to her new life and we should be careful with her. When her tail starts moving a lot -that is a clue that she is cross with you and you should stop upsetting her “

“I didn’t “

“Are you sure ?”

“Yes “

“Well you should be more careful – she has claws and she is not afraid to use them. Let me have a look at your finger “

Tina picked Angie up and looked closer at the scratch. It was only a centimetre long “ Tina kissed it “I think you will live darling “