12. Bedtime

So it's that time of year again.

Last night my wife heard a boy's voice calling out to her. As our 14 year old was in bed at the time and I was upstairs, she asked me to check up on him in case he wanted her. So I go into his room and ask him if he's okay. No answer. So I go over to check on him and he's fast asleep. I shook him gently awake and asked if he was okay. "Yes" he said with a yawn. I asked him if he called his mum. "No" he said, and went back to sleep. I went downstairs and she tells me that she's heard it again while I was in our boy's room.

Later, in bed, I was dozing gently but not yet asleep when I heard a boy's voice singing. Thinking it was our eldest watching telly, I got up to check. He was fast asleep too.
We have only two neighbours and live in the middle of the country and there were no other sounds except for the owl that lives in the tree in the front garden and I couldn't hear the singing outside.
It went on for about 8-10 minutes then faded away - as though someone had turned down the volume.