#8 The Hatching by Annie Graves

Author:Annie Graves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Mum said, “Oh, for goodness’ sake,” and she smashed the Egg into the sink.

We looked at each other with a sickening kind of relief: I because my enemy had been defeated, and she because, for the first time in living memory, she had wasted food.

In school that day I was giddy with relief.

I spent recess happily collecting slugs with Sally Ann in the hopes of luring, and eventually trapping, Flaherty the Hedgehog.

He was a mythical creature said to roam around the school garden late at night in search of food and fallen bits of lunch.

Sally Ann was obsessed with Flaherty because she was fairly sure that he didn’t exist, except as a sort of schoolwide conspiracy to deny that there were rats in the yard.

These rats sometimes made their way into the school building.

If we ever actually found them, there’d have to be extra time off while the school was made child-friendly again with a mixture of traps and poison.

That is probably why they made this Flaherty fellow up.

Sally Ann is probably the cleverest person I know.

I didn’t tell her about the Egg, though.

I couldn’t tell anyone about the Egg. I was too ashamed.

When I got home, the Egg was on the nightstand once again, whole. Not one crack marred its perfect, eggy surface.

This time I shoved it in a drawer and didn’t tell Mum.

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