my big sisters boyfriend gave me a ride
I was late for class and my dads car had broken down so my sisters boyfriend gave me a lift, and a really good ride. I was in the front garden practicing my routine and waiting for my dad to sort the car out, mom was going to drive me to my dance class but the car won’t start and dad’s got the hood up tinkering away, he’s been at it for nearly half an hour and I’m going to miss the warm-ups, “Hurry up, daddy.” I yelled, my patients wearing thin. Mom was sitting in the driver’s seat turning over the engine as dad commanded, it sounded like a dying dustbin, oil shot out of the engine and sprayed in my dad’s face, he rushed around the drive away shouting and swearing wiping it …