Ade's Amazing Ade-ventures by Ade Adepitan

Author:Ade Adepitan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Templar
Published: 2018-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Ade wrinkled his nose. He hated wheelchairs and hated the whole idea of using one. Wheelchairs are for really disabled people who can’t even play football, he thought. Now, I’m going to be one of them.

CHAPTER 10

IN A BIT OF A FIX

Brian paced up and down Ade’s bedroom, rubbing his chin and thinking. It must have been something he’d seen on television and he was probably doing it because he thought it made him seem even more intelligent. Ade wasn’t so sure. Why would walking back and forth give you cleverer thoughts than if you were just sitting down and thinking?

Brian wasn’t the only one thinking, though. Shed was sitting on the end of Ade’s bed, bouncing a rubber ball off the floor and onto the wall as he pondered their problem, and Dexter was trying to balance on his head with his legs up against the bedroom door. He claimed it really did help him think better and was something he always did when the gang had a big problem to solve.

And boy did they have a big problem to solve! A big, buggy shaped problem.

“Why a buggy?” Dexter asked, still upside down. “Why won’t your parents let you use the wheelchair?”

Ade sighed. He wanted to explain but he wasn’t sure Dex would get it. Life was really hard for disabled people in Nigeria. There were very few opportunities for them and, for the most part, they were only ever seen begging in the streets. Ade knew his parents had come to the UK because they wanted him to be independent and have the best life possible. They haven’t come here to see me in a wheelchair and they don’t want me to rely on one. To them that looks like I’m properly disabled. And they’re right. Walking with my caliper is best.

“They just don’t like it,” Ade said instead. “But they need to get me around somehow.”

Dexter was going red in the face so flopped down on the floor. “Well, mate, being pushed around in a buggy is doing nothing for your reputation. A wheelchair would be much better.”

Brian glared at him and Dexter shrugged. “I’m just saying.”

Ade flopped back on his bed. “I need my caliper back, and fast.”

“Definitely,” Brian said. “School’s starting soon.”

Ade shook his head. “I don’t care about that. I don’t want to go to school; it’s going to be horrible.”

“No it won’t,” Shed promised. “We’re the Parsons Road Gang and we always stick together.” He threw the ball against the wall again, but this time it ricocheted past Shed’s outstretched hand and hit Brian on the side of his head.

All the boys started laughing, apart from Brian who was anxiously examining his specs. “You could have broken my glasses. You know I can’t see a thing without them.”

“Chill out, Brian, it was an accident,” Ade said. “Nothing’s broken and nothing needs to be fixed.”

“Hang on. That’s it,” Brian shouted. “I’ve got it!”

“Yes, we know you’ve got it. The worse case of flatulence known to man,” Ade replied.

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