Bedsocks and Broomsticks by G. Clatworthy

Author:G. Clatworthy [Clatworthy, G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“Fudge!” Fi looked at Agatha. Her sister shrugged, “It’s working with the kids, I can’t swear any more. But what are we going to do?”

“I have no idea…”

“This is Mum!”

“Yep.”

“Mum! She couldn’t…”

“Of course not…”

“She wouldn’t…”

“No…”

“We should go and see her.”

“Yep.”

Agatha rushed to the back door and grabbed her broomstick.

“What are you doing?”

Agatha followed Fi’s gaze to her hand. “I’m going to Mum’s…”

“Why don’t we just walk? It’s not that far.”

“You want to waste precious minutes walking when we could fly there faster?”

Fi swallowed. She wasn’t sure she could get on that piece of wood. It wasn’t just that she’d been part of a crash at the fete; she’d never been good on broomsticks. Her hands shook as she moved closer. She just didn’t seem to get on with anything that wasn’t electronic, and even then, she wasn’t exactly on the best of terms with things with a circuit board. “What am I going to ride on?”

Agatha looked at her broom again. “It’s big enough for two…” She didn’t sound sure.

Fi shook her head and stepped back, not trusting the slender wooden broom. Her eyes caught the vacuum cleaner standing behind the kitchen door. She swore and reached for it. She switched it on and felt her power swell through her body. With a flick of her wrist, she sent a careful lick of her power into the vacuum. It lifted off the floor and hovered three inches from the ground. Agatha’s eyes boggled out of her face.

“You’re going to ride that?!”

“Yep.” Fi hopped on more confidently than she felt. The vacuum cleaner dipped slightly, then resumed its floating position just above the easy clean lino flooring of her sister’s kitchen. “Easy as riding a broomstick.”

Fi angled her vacuum cleaner forward and headed out of the back door. She was almost at the roof when Agatha caught up with her.

“I didn’t even know those things could fly.”

“I figured it out when I was a teenager and Mum asked me to do the hoovering.”

“Alright then, let’s go.” Agatha leant over her broom and sped over the tiled rooftops of Omensford towards their mother’s Bed and Breakfast. Fi followed, turning the power on full. She felt a tug and looked down to see the power cord stuck in a TV aerial. She grimaced and kicked the cable. It came free, sending the witch and her vacuum cleaner spinning before she regained control. She looked over her shoulder to see the aerial bent at a right angle.

“Sorry,” she murmured to the owner of the house before hurrying to catch her sister.

Agatha had already dismounted in the back garden. She smoothed down her plaid trousers. Fi landed next to her. The hoover made an angry grinding noise as it sucked up the grass. Fi turned it off.

“You might want to clean that out before you use it indoors…”

Agatha pursed her lips but kept quiet.

“I’ll knock, shall I?” Fi wrestled her vacuum cleaner to the back porch next to the wood store and raised her hand to knock.

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