Chloe Centre Stage by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb [Holly Webb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847159908
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

“Oh, I know.” The dark-haired woman, their French teacher Ms LeBrun, grimaced. “You normally hope they might behave for at least the first couple of weeks – and I’ve got a double with them.” Her French accent was very pretty, but Chloe was too furious to appreciate it. She hadn’t even done anything in history lessons, just told Carmen and Ella a couple of jokes. How unfair was that?

Needless to say, Chloe was not at her best in French. She was seething. Once in the classroom, she gazed at the board, not seeing it at all. If that was what the Shine staff thought of her, then fine! She would really give them something to think about.

“Chloe!” Ms LeBrun’s soft voice had an edge to it now. “Listen, please! Quel âge as-tu?” Chloe gaped at her. She had absolutely no idea what the French teacher was talking about. “Onze!” Sam hissed at her out of the corner of his mouth. “It’s onze for eleven. Go on!”

Unfortunately, since Chloe hadn’t heard a word Ms LeBrun had said since the start of the lesson, she didn’t even understand what Sam was trying to tell her. On what? She just blinked at the teacher, looking confused.

“Fine. Chloe, you’ll be doing extra homework, see me about it at the end. Sam, as you seem able to tell Chloe what she ought to be saying, perhaps you’d like to answer instead.”

Sam coughed, looking embarrassed. “Er, j’ai onze ans.”

At the end of the class, Chloe slunk sulkily up to Ms LeBrun’s desk. She knew it was her own fault for not listening, but it didn’t make it any easier. Yet another telling off, plus a whole extra exercise to do from their textbook, didn’t make her feel like behaving at all. Quite the opposite, in fact. She felt more like she was going to explode. She had Carmen and Ella, and a couple of the other girls from her class, choking on their lunch with her imitation of Ms LeBrun forgetting how to speak English because she was so furious with Chloe. She was still bubbling over in ballet, and for once, the exercises at the barre didn’t have their usual magic effect.

Miss Jasper had arranged them at the barre so Bethany was behind Chloe, and Carmen and Ella were at the other end of the line. But Chloe just had to have someone as an audience, so Bethany would have to do. Miss Jasper was watching the girls at the other end as they did their pliés, trying to get Lily to bend deeper. Chloe started to exaggerate her movements, waggling her bottom like a duck as she sank into the bend. She heard a stifled snigger from behind her and grinned to herself. Bethany had seen. As she came up again she twitched her neck like a bird pecking – and then she did it all again, adding a little flap with the hand that wasn’t on the barre, turning out her feet, making a tiny little hissy quack noise.

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