Lintwood Farm Chapter Six

Chapter 6

Christmas morning, Chrissie jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to see what was under the Christmas tree. As she was doing that Martin had woken up as well and made his way into Ellie's room. Ellie was still asleep. Martin laid on the bed next to her and put his arms round her. He started to kiss her right shoulder and her neck and made his way up to her lips,

"Um" Ellie made of soft gentle noise as she woke up and opened her eyes,

"Good Morning beautiful" Martin said as he saw her beautiful deep blue eyes

"Mmm good morning Martin" they kissed "wasn't expecting you like this"

"Well you better get used to it" Martin said nuzzling her neck

"Ok" Ellie lied against him.

"Wake up, wake up" Chrissie ran around the house waking everyone up "he came, he came, come on Louis, he came" Chrissie ran into Ellie's room " Ellie, Ellie he came, he came, oh good morning Martin"

"Good Morning Chrissie" Martin said as Chrissie jumped on the bed

"What time is it" Jennifer asked as everyone came into Ellie's room, Ellie and Martin sat up

"It's 8:15 Jenny" Ellie replied

"He came, he came" Chrissie continued

" Father Christmas" Lindsey asked

"Yes he came, let's go open presents" Chrissie jumped off the bed and ran back downstairs with Lindsey. Nicky smiled as they ran passed her. Nicky, Jennifer and Louis followed with Ellie and Martin not far behind them.

"Look, look mummy, I got my doll" Chrissie waved a doll she had just unwrapped around in the air,

"That's very nice" Nicky replied,

"I like my hat, scarf and gloves Ellie" Lindsey thanked Ellie as she wrapped herself up in them,

"Me too thank you Ellie" Jennifer said as well,

"Mum what is this" Louis held up his present from his mother

"It's a pocket watch Louis" she replied

"Oh really, wow" He opens it "To my dearest Louis, now as a young man it is about time you had your own pocket watch. Merry Christmas son, Love Dad" he read out the message inside it,

"Your father bought it for you before he went away, I found it when I tidying a few weeks ago and decided to give it to you as a present" Nicky told her son. Louis gave his mother a hug,

"I love it, I really do"

"Hey look it snowed" Ellie said as she opened the curtains in the living room,

"Yay" Lindsey and Chrissie shouted with excitement and ran upstairs to get dressed.

Chrissie and Lindsey ran around outside, throwing snowballs, making snow angels and snowmen. Jennifer joined them once she was dressed,

"Jenny, Jenny lookout Chrissie's going to throw a snowball at you" Lindsey warned Jennifer as she walked down the path towards the drive. Chrissie through a snowball at her which hit her on the upper left arm,

"Oh, Chrissie I am so going to get you back for that" Jennifer picked up a hand full of snow, rolled it up into a ball and through it at Chrissie. Nicky was watching them from the dining room window and smiled as they ran around the drive. Ellie was in the kitchen prepping the vegetables for Christmas dinner,

"Hey Mum, would you like a cup of tea" Ellie said putting the knife that she had in her hand down,

"Oh that would be lovely sweetheart, if we have any tea left, we don't get any more until Monday" Nicky replied

"Yes we have tea, we just don't have any milk and we have no coupons until next week" Ellie said looking into the fridge

"Black tea it is then" Nicky walked into the kitchen

"Hey the animals are feed" Martin said as he walked in with Louis

"Hey sweetie" Ellie ran up to him and kissed him

"So how's you beautiful" Martin asked Ellie as he held her in his arms,

"I'm fine, a bit bummed we have to drink black tea until next week due to no milk"

"We have no milk, what are we going to have for breakfast then" Louis asked

"Bubble and squeak" Nicky replied

"What's that"

"Leftovers fried up together Louis"

"Oh"

"Ok can't we just milk one of the cows" Martin asked

"No the milk from the cows are for the factories. Besides dad being dad made us promise that we wouldn't keep any for ourselves even if he did die" Ellie explained

"What about the eggs then"

"We don't sell eggs sweetie"

"Ah right"

"Dinner will be ready in ten minutes you three, so get yourselves cleaned up now" Ellie called out to the three girls playing outside,

"Yay" Chrissie and Lindsey shouted running towards the house. They all ran upstairs and changed their clothes. Chrissie also slipped into her cosy wool jumped to keep warm. Sat around the table everyone tucked into their dinner and ate every last bit,

"Mum, Ellie that was brilliant, so yummy" Louis said putting his fork down on his empty plate

"Thank you Louis" Ellie replied

"What about the leftovers in the kitchen" Jennifer asked

"We will have them for breakfast, bubble and squeak it's called" Nicky said as she started to clear the table "right you four time to clean the kitchen"

"Ok Mummy" Chrissie leaped down from the table and ran into the kitchen followed by everyone else leaving Ellie and Martin alone. Martin put his arm round her, pulled her in and kissed her,

"Wow" Ellie stated and kissed him again.

Later that night everyone sat in the living room listening to the evening comedy show on the radio, Louis and Jennifer sat on the floor playing cards, Nicky was doing Lindsey and Chrissie's hair whilst Ellie and Martin sat cuddled up on the sofa. All was quiet until the air raid alarm went off,

"Ahhh, Mummy the Germans are coming" Chrissie started to scream and cry,

"Chrissie, Chrissie it's ok" Ellie jumped up and put her arms round her little sister,

"Ok everyone, lights out, Martin put out the fire, radio off and everyone to the bomb shelter, Move" everyone raced out of the house and into the bomb shelter.

"Why is there an air raid in the country" Lindsey asked as she and Chrissie made themselves comfortable on one of the top bunks in the shelter,

"Because it's a war and the Germans will target anywhere whether it's the country or the city" Martin told her "but we are safe in here"

"Ok, I was just wondering" Lindsey lied down and closed her eyes

"How does she do that" Ellie asked

"No idea, she's always done it, ever since the first bombing in the city" Martin replied sitting down and putting his arm round Ellie,

"Wish I could do that" Louis said quietly

"Ellie tell us a story" Chrissie looked at Ellie

"Ok, what kind of story"

"The next instalment of Franny the Princess Fairy" Chrissie gave a big grin

"Who's Franny the Princess Fairy" Jennifer asked

"A character from a story Ellie made up first time we were in here" Chrissie said poking her head over the bed,

"Ok right this one is called Franny and the enchanted Willow tree" Ellie began to tell the story, everyone else sat back and listened.

By one o'clock in the morning the alarm telling everyone the raid was over went off. Lindsey, Chrissie and Louis were all asleep. Martin, Ellie and Nicky carried them back to the house and put them to bed, Jennifer jumped in the bed next to Lindsey and fell straight to sleep, Martin kissed them both on the forehead and made his way into Ellie's room.

"Hey beautiful" he said as he walked across the room

"Hey sweetie" Ellie smiled, Martin sat next to her and stroked her face before kissing her passionately, he kept kissing her and stroked her arm before touching her breasts.

"I'm going to let you sleep now" Martin said before kissing again,

"You know" Ellie started "It's been a long night maybe you could stay" she said between kisses,

"Ok if you want me too"

"I do, the truth is bomb raids scare me so much, it's the reason I started telling the stories to take my mind of it"

"Oh Ellie come here" Martin hugged her "of course I will stay"

"Thank you, oh just so you know I don't want to you know, yet"

"Oh me neither, yet" they both smiled at each other then lied down go to sleep.