HIDE AND SEEK

Eva always liked to hide. I often told her she was the silliest person I knew and she loved that.

- A short story by Louise Swanson

We met in a children’s play area. Fitting, you could say. She was there with her nephew and I had taken my niece. I thought the little boy was alone, was about to ask where his mum was, when Eva burst out of the kaleidoscopic ball pool next to him and cried, “Boo!”

I laughed too and we got talking, about uncle/auntie duties and where we liked to holiday and our favourite comedy shows.