I
don’t like the dark!
It’s
dark in here a lot!
Sometimes
the door opens, but it’s soon closed. We are right at the back and difficult to
see behind all the coats. Sometimes a coat gets thrown over us and it stays hot
for ages and ages.
It
really gets dark then.
I’ve
got used to it now, after all these years. Some of the others have been here
much longer than me. Bits of them fall off. I’m still all together; - at least
I was the last time I was taken out.
It’s
always a gamble though, every time we get crammed into the back again and left
in the dark once more.
The
last time, not all of us were put back and I said that I was not surprised as
some of the non-returnees were very tatty. Well, you have to look your best
don’t you!
There
was some excitement the other day when the door opened and one of them came in
looking around.
All
cramped up it was. It couldn’t see us at the back. It was looking for something
else, because it found it and shut the door again. We hear them all year round,
thumping up and down the stairs. They don’t think about us at all until it
suits them.
I
don’t like the dark!
The
door is open again.
Things
are being moved around and dragged out into the open.
I
can see a hand reaching for the box at the back.
Oh
the excitement now! It’s reaching for me. I’m being pulled into the light, but
the long tail that I have has caught onto something else behind me. If it pulls
too hard I will be missing my vital piece and then I will not be able to do my
thing! Its all right, it’s crawling further into the dark and it has freed my
tail without the end piece coming off!
I’m
out at last!
Things
have changed again. The paper’s different on the walls and the carpet’s new!
The fish tank’s still there and that’s where I always stand. I like it up here,
there’s lots of room.
I
can feel that end of my tail has been pushed into place and yes the switch is
on! My lights are on again! I’m working again. Oh joy, oh joy it’s good to be
back. On, off, wink and shine, round and round I go!
Two
wonderful weeks, if I’m lucky, before its back to the cupboard under the
stairs.
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