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time for her to start asking questions.
    â€œI think, personally,” said Skye, “you should just wait.”
    I said, “Wait for what?”
    â€œWait till she’s back to normal with her mum, then she can sit down and have a talk.”
    â€œHow can I ever be back to normal,” shrilled Jem, “when every minute that ticks past is another minute of my life wasted ? Liliana’s just done a photo shoot for the Teen Scene catalogue and she’s threatening to bring it round and show it to me!”
    In spite of being so maddeningly sensible, Skye does seem to have the knack of always saying the wrong thing.
    â€œNow look what you’ve done,” I hissed. “Just as she was starting to get over it!”
    I knew straight away, the next morning, that Jem had something to report. She was jigging up and down with impatience.
    â€œI did it, I did it! I found something!”
    â€œWhat, what?”
    â€œTell!”
    Even Skye could hardly contain herself.
    â€œYou found her?” I yelled. “You found your birth mum?”
    â€œNo, but I’ve found something… I’ve found that I was discovered ,” said Jem.
    â€œDiscovered how?” I said.
    â€œDiscovered where?” said Skye.
    â€œOn the steps of a church…” Jem announced it in a ghostly whisper. “Left in the churchyard, wrapped in a shawl… ”
    I was about to say “Wow” but stopped myself just in time.
    â€œHow did you find out?” said Skye.
    â€œI waited till Mum and Dad had gone upstairs to this residents’ meeting, then I crept into the bedroom and got the key and went back to the sitting room and—”
    â€œYes, yes, we know all that,” said Skye.
    â€œJust get on with it!” I said.
    Jem looked hurt. “I’m setting the scene.”
    â€œBut what did you find ?”
    â€œI found this cutting from a newspaper… all old and yellow. All about this tiny baby that had been abandoned.”
    â€œAnd that was you?”
    â€œIt has to be,” said Jem, “or why would they have kept it?”
    â€œWhat was the date?” said Skye.
    â€œDunno.” Jem crinkled her nose. “That bit was torn off. But it did say it was lucky I was discovered in time cos it was one of the coldest February days for decades!”
    Jem’s birthday is in February. We stared at her, in a kind of awe. She had been in the paper!
    â€œYou should have brought it with you,” I said. “We might have been able to find things out.”
    â€œLike what?”
    â€œWell … like which paper it was?”
    â€œThat wouldn’t help her find her birth mum,” said Skye.
    â€œNo, but at least she’d know if it was local.”
    â€œIt was,” said Jem. Her cheeks glowed, pinkly. “It said St Peter’s. You know where that is? Down Old Town, near the Arcade!”
    This time I did say wow. The Arcade! We all knew where that was. We used to beg our mums to take us there when we were little so we could go on the roundabout and ride on the toy train. To think we’d been only minutes away from where Jem had been abandoned…
    â€œKnow what?” I said. “We ought to go down there and have a look!”
    Jem’s face lit up. “Shall we?” She turned to Skye. “Shall we do that?”
    I waited for Skye to read us one of her lectures and tell us why it was a bad idea and we shouldn’t go, but for once she seemed quite enthusiastic.
    â€œOK,” she said. “Why not? We could meet up Saturday afternoon and take the tram to Old Town. It’ll be like a kind of pilgrimage.”
    â€œOh, this is so exciting!” Jem clasped her hands to her chest; her eyes were glowing. “It’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me!”

Chapter Five
    â€œIt’s like a sort of pilgrimage,” I said.
    It was Saturday afternoon and I was waiting for