Boy Trouble at Trebizon by Anne Digby

Author:Anne Digby [Digby, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781899587124
Publisher: Straw Hat
Published: 2011-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

A DRAMATIC TELEPHONE CALL

Something else had disappeared. Rebecca's watch. It was a nuisance because without it she nearly missed the train to Exonford on that second Saturday in November.

'I wonder where I left it?' she frowned to herself, as she watched the fields and hedges rushing by. 'It must have been at the sports centre, last time I was there.'

Rebecca didn't like wearing a watch, so only wore one when she really needed to. She usually left it lying around in their study bedroom. She had been vaguely conscious that she'd mislaid it for about a fortnight now, and had looked for it once or twice. Finally, because she always liked to wear it to Exonford, she ransacked the room on Friday and even asked Mrs Devenshire, the school secretary, about it. But no-one had found it.

It looked as though she must have left it at the Exonford centre, except she could have sworn that she was wearing it when she came away from there on the afternoon of the Hallowe'en Dance . . .

Training went remarkably well for Rebecca that day. She spent a lot of time on court, serving again and again under David Driscoll's watchful eye. Only twice did she serve a double fault.

'You've really got it, Rebecca!' he said. For once, he showed some feeling. 'Tremendous!'

Afterwards, in the cafeteria, he gathered them all round him.

'Next Saturday, weather permitting, there's the friendly at King's Club in Clifford. Remember to write all your scores down on your record sheets. If it rains, it'll be called off. The big one is here, in a fortnight's time – the Exonford Indoor Junior Tournament. You're all entered. No training that day, of course.

'I spoke to Mrs Seabrook on the phone this morning. It's definite. Two players are leaving D squad after Christmas, one boy and one girl. That means two of you will be moving up. We know the boy's going to be Toby –'

He paused as they all cheered Toby and clapped him on the back, though it had been obvious for some weeks that the lanky fourteen-year-old was bound to be promoted.

'It's not so easy to decide who the girl will be. Except it'll be either Rebecca or Madeleine. I'll make my recommendations to the county officials after the Indoor Tournament. After that, there's one more training session before the Christmas break, then I'll be leaving county tennis. You'll have a new coach in January.'

Rebecca and Madeleine looked at each other. It was between the two of them! Definitely.

Rebecca's mind was in a turmoil when she left the sports centre and hurried to catch her train. It was in such a turmoil that she completely forgot to inquire about her lost watch! Oh, dash it, she thought, as the train went out. Now I'll have to wait another fortnight.

But she had much more important things on her mind. Once it had been only a day-dream – getting promoted to the county D squad after Christmas – now it was really within her grasp!

She had to play well at the King's Club next Saturday.

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