In the kitchen at another council flat. It’s about 4pm. Rosealine’s mum is busying herself cooking in the kitchen. Rosealine is present. She is wearing an A line mini skirt and shirt. Mum takes a letter from the kitchen table and hands it to Rosealine.

Mum
Who is that letter from Rosealine?

Rosealine
Taking the letter and looking at it. It’s from the council mum. Do you want me to read it?

Mum
Yes please.

Rosealine
It says, Dear Mr and Mrs Mitchell, The council will attend your property on Monday 23rd July to eradicate the problem you have with woodlice. Please ensure someone is present to allow access to the property. Yours sincerely…..
Oh so they’re finally coming to get rid of the woodlice in the kitchen. Ugghh she quivers. While they’re at it mum. You’d better tell them about the silverfish in the bedrooms.

Mum
Alright, alright. Pause. So you like it round here Rosealine?

Rosealine
Mum it’s brilliant. We’ve got friends who’ve got a mum from St Lucia like you and daddy. They’re called Rosemary, Sharon and Lorraine. I like Lorraine best ‘cos she’s the same age as me. And Winston said his mum Vye works at the same hospital as you. Do you know her mum?

Mum
Oh. That must be Vye Gordon. She live around here?

Rosealine
Yep. Pause. Mum can, me and Payton come to your workplace tomorrow to pick some blackberries from that tree in the backyard of your workplace, so that we can make a blackberry pie?

Mum
Rosealine, you all will get me into trouble! These people are watching me you know. Pause. Alright, you can come.

Rosealine (Enthused )
Oh thanks mum. School is really good too you know. I haven’t got that many friends at school but I really like the teachers. And mum, I think it’s so cool that our cousins Nelson and Emmanuel live just down the road. We can see them much more often now. Mum when are we next going to see Uncle Ravino and Auntie Mary?

Mum
I don’t know child. Soon.

Rosealine
Laughing Auntie Mary and Mark really make me laugh. He’s always pestering her and she says to him, feigning a St Lucian accent ‘Mark, Your head round like a ball. Move away from there!’ Has stopped laughing. Auntie Mary’s cooking is almost as nice as yours mum. She pulls a chocolate bar out of her pocket, opens it and starts eating it. What are you cooking today mum?