Bigfoot by David Michael Slater

Author:David Michael Slater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Corgi Bits
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE CHASE

“SASQUAAAAATCH!” Max screamed. He didn’t mean to — it just slipped out. Everyone saw it: a furry head in the distance, just visible through the screen of branches and leaves.

But now it was moving away from them — fast.

All at once, the three Mattigan kids lost their minds. Or showed their true colors. Or both.

Whatever the case, they chased after it.

Maddie took the lead. She was the fastest and had the camera, which she aimed at the bobbing head that sporadically appeared and disappeared from her line of sight.

Max was in hot pursuit behind Maddie, and Theo did his best to keep up with him.

At one point, Maddie lost sight of the furry figure altogether.

The kids stopped to catch their breath.

“Dad is going to be so happy!” Max panted, his hands on his knees. “We’re gonna catch a Sasquatch for him, and that’s gonna disprove the biggest lie in his life — that his father doesn’t love him!”

“That way!” Theo screamed when a rustle sounded from their left.

And they were off again.

All three Mattigans got scraped and bruised barging through the brush. Maddie dropped the camera once, but luckily it only fell against her chest. Max dropped his spy kit and had to stop to pick it back up. Theo tripped and fell several times — though he never came close to losing hold of his sandwich sack.

The three of them ran in frantic pursuit of that bobbing head of hair. But they just couldn’t catch up to it, and eventually they grew too tired to continue. Finally, they gave up, collapsing onto a pile of soft green leaves. The trio lay there until they recovered enough to sit up and look at each other.

They grinned.

“Did you get it?” Max asked Maddie. “Tell me you got it.”

The boys gathered round as Maddie played the footage back. It was hard to see anything clearly with the camera shaking like crazy, but the hairy head was, at times, visible — sort of.

“Not very convincing,” Maddie concluded.

“I’m convinced!”

“You can’t be convinced without convincing proof, Theo. Dad has told you that a million times. Major Teachable — ”

“Humph! On yumpf!”

“Kids,” Maddie sighed.

“It doesn’t matter,” Max said. “Bigfoot is here — in Forest Park. And we’re going to find him.”

“Tomorrow,” Maddie told him. “It’s going to get dark soon, and Betsy is probably freaking out right now. And I’m not even sure where we are. If we really think we saw — ”

“We saw!” the Mattigan boys insisted.

“Okay,” Maddie allowed. “Okay. But we need to go home and come up with a plan, a real, thoughtful, organized plan. We need to sleep on it.” She always thought more clearly after a good night’s rest.

“How will we find our way back here?” Max asked. Then he and Maddie turned to their little brother. “Theo?” they prompted.

“If that’s my real name!” Theo said, beating Max to the punch. He took a sandwich out of his sack and started tearing off bits of it.

The kids immediately

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