Week after

The week after. During the week after Roy's mum had died, his mum was buried and he was sent on a train journey into a life he dreaded. He'd never been on a train before and it was a little like an adventure for him but what was going to happen? The train journey, with his grand dad, was the first thing in what felt like ever to Roy that had taken his mind to someplace that was not evil and nasty. He adored the sounds and smell of the steam train, the views of places he had never heard of were awesome. The world seemed to be getting greener the further they went. It was good to know Paul was going to be there what ever the future held. He was still so small he didn't understand what was happening. Well Roy didn't either all he knew was his family had been split and would never be the same. Then we all arrived in Somerset. The house they arrived at was similar to the one they'd left. It made Roy feel a little better but then they got inside and there were 2 other kids here. Were they trying to replace the twins? This place of refuge, as the boys had been told it would be, was not to last long though. Roy and Paul's Aunt and Uncle who had given them a house were bringing up their own two sons, the other two kids, so needed financial assistance from social services or someone to allow them to keep Roy and Paul. However Somerset social services had not been told about the boys relocation down south. They felt that what had happened was wrong and that both boys would be better of back in Scotland with folk that spoke as they did etc. So after 10 days they were back on the train heading to Edinburgh. Where they would be collected by a social worker. On the day of the return journey there was a train strike to start at midnight. So things were going to be tight for their Uncle who was bringing them north. He would just have time to drop them of before returning south to his family. Once again the boys were being abandoned by their family. On arrival at Edinburgh there was no one to meet them. They stood waiting until Uncle Derek spoke to a police man. Who went and spoke to someone through one of them wee blue phone box things. He returned to say social services were on their way. When the social worker arrived she spoke to no one, she pulled up and took both boys by the arm and put them in the car. Neither boy heard what was being said to their Uncle but that was that. They wouldn't see either Aunt or Uncle for decades. They were now taken to a Children's Care Home. Their family had abandoned them for this seriously?