Bat Attack! by J. E. Fison

Author:J. E. Fison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ford Street Publishing
Published: 2011-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

9.30 pm: The boy with the green hair is still chanting ‘Worm Boy’ when I walk out of the disco. Almost every kid at the fire station is down on the floor doing the worm, but I know who he’s talking to. He’s talking to me. I stuff my prize in my pocket. I find Ben and Mimi and head outside. I want to go home.

‘Who have we got here?’ says a boy with a silly Scottish accent. He’s shining a torch in my face. For a moment I think the boy with green hair has found me. But no. It’s Lachlan.

‘Where have you been?’ I ask Lachlan, pushing the torch out of my face.

‘Discos are for losers,’ Lachlan responds, stuffing his face with salt and vinegar chips.

‘Well what are you doing here?’ Ben asks. ‘Does that make you a loser, too?’

‘It makes you all losers,’ calls a voice from behind.

I turn to see the boy with green hair. He has his hands on his hips. His mouth is curled up in a snarl.

‘You look like a walking toilet brush,’ Lachlan laughs, pointing at the boy. ‘Have you cleaned out any pooey dunnies lately?’

‘Are you mad?’ I whisper to Lachlan. ‘Why did you say that? He’s bigger than you and he’s twice as big as me. You’re the Master of Disaster!’

Normally Lachlan would punch me for calling him the Master of Disaster. But he doesn’t have time. The boy with green hair is walking towards us. He looks as angry as a bulldog with a toothache.

‘Now he’s going to punch someone,’ I say. ‘And it will probably be me.’

I run behind a fire truck. Ben and Lachlan follow, but Mimi doesn’t move. She stands defiantly in the open, waiting for Toilet Brush Head. I reach out from behind the fire truck, grab her T-shirt and pull her towards me.

‘Why are you hiding?’ Mimi says. ‘There’s no need to be scared of him.’

‘Who’s scared of Toilet Brush Head?’ Lachlan says. He crouches behind Ben, like someone who is actually very scared of Toilet Brush Head.

‘I’m scared,’ Ben admits. ‘But we can escape in the fire truck. It’s big enough for all of us.’

‘Good idea,’ Lachlan says, climbing onto the side of the truck. He throws his bag of chips in through the driver’s window and starts to scramble in after them. ‘I’ll drive.’

‘Are you mad?’ Mimi says. ‘We’re going to have Toilet Brush Head and every other person in Hazard River after us. Get down from there.’

‘I’m going to get you, Worm Boy!’ Toilet Brush Head calls from somewhere nearby. ‘And I want that iPod.’

I reach into my pocket for my iPod. Maybe I should just hand it over, go home and declare this the worst New Year’s Eve ever. I’m going to have Toilet Brush Head hunting me all night if I don’t.

I pull out my iPod. I’m ready to give up.

‘Don’t you dare,’ Mimi says, reading my thoughts. ‘You deserve that iPod. You won it. Don’t let that bully beat you.

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