"It was a funny kind of day when Simone went into town to do a little shopping for her mother. The sun had been out all morning and suddenly, when she ventured out, a cloud had come and obscured the sun. Thankfully she had got a long sleeved light sweater on. She decided to make the best of the situation and walk briskly to keep herself warm.
As she walked through the shopping precinct she noticed her friend Katy who happened to be with her younger brother, Kelvin. Katy was a lovely young girl who always tried to help her mother out by taking one of the younger children off her hands so that her mum could get on with the things that needed doing at home. Unfortunately, today she had drawn the short straw and Kelvin was, as usual, playing up.
He was definitely the naughtiest of the whole family. His brother Nathan was a lovely child, as was his twin, Naomi. Despite her young years and still being at school herself Katy did her best to help out in the home as mum struggled to bring the four children up on her own since her husband had died in an accident at work.
Kelvin was howling his eyes out, stamping his feet on the ground - and making an absolute show of himself - and poor Katy too. People were beginning to stare at the pair and Simone did not know what to do. Should she ignore them or go over? She was tempted to cause a scene. But it wasn't fair on Katy if she did, but oh, that boy, he needed a good shake of the shoulders to stop him crying and screaming like that.
Simone was so glad she was an only child and did not have to put up with siblings who behaved in the street in that manner. But then maybe it was easier to manage with one child than with four. She'd ask her own mother when she got home if there was anything they could do to help the Leigh family. She liked Katy and hated to see her humiliated like that in the street."
