She came at about nine because she had my spare key and she was dropping off a dish she had borrowed, and she was still there when the neighbour rang about my mum.
She was brilliant. That is what I have to keep saying to people and it is true.
She got my coat. She found Bee’s reading folder. She rang next door for me because I could not get my voice to work, and she stood in my kitchen with her hand flat on my back while I spoke to my sister.
And when I came back down with my bag she was writing on a Post-it on the fridge.
It says:
Hun — fed the cat, bins done, I’ll do the school run Thurs. Ring me the second you know anything. Love you. S x
I took it off the fridge on my way out.
I did not think about it. I took it because I was going to text her from the airport and I wanted the number of the hospital she had written underneath it.
