‘Your father’s doing better,’ she said as she scooped up Joey to go back to the hospital. ‘The doctor thinks he’s going to be okay.’ Pearlie felt relieved, but hurried through her chores so she could search for Tinto. Her mind was racing now, racing ahead to the time when she would see Naoko again. How could she explain to her best friend that she’d been so careless? Santa greeted her with a loud screech. ‘Allo Pearlie, allo, allo,’ he said. He jumped from his perch to the bars while Pearlie took out his seed bowl and blew off the husks, changed his water and poked a piece of apple through the bars. ‘I’ll let you out later,’ she said. ‘Be a good boy now.’ ‘Santa good boy, good boy,’ the cockatiel said. She fed Rusty and let the Girls out of the chicken coop. They pecked at the leftover rice and vegetables from last night’s dinner while she collected the freshly laid eggs and put them inside the house. ‘There, all done.
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