Contact by Chris Morphew

Author:Chris Morphew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781742730158
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2010-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

‘Do we have a plan here,’ I asked as we walked our bikes past the mall that afternoon, ‘or are we just going to wander up and down the street until we find him?’

‘Since when have we had a plan for any of this?’ said Luke.

I hadn’t heard anything more about Dad all day, which I was hoping meant that he really would be home this afternoon. But in the meantime, we’d decided to go looking for Officer Reeve and see if we could get anything out of him about the metal doors.

I looked back towards school, double-checking that Pryor was nowhere around. In theory we were meant to be working on her second assignment right now. Some stupid mapping thing. We had to stand out the front of the school every afternoon and measure traffic congestion.

Thankfully, I’d managed to convince Jordan and Luke to just leave it to me and let me fake the results this time. They were both too busy scheming about security doors to put up much of an argument.

For some reason, Jordan had it in her head that figuring out those doors would help us get a message to the outside world. And she’d come into school this morning convinced that talking to Reeve was the way we were going to get that information. Said she had a feeling, and Luke backed her up.

‘We should go to Flameburger,’ said Jordan.

‘Why? Did you see him?’ I asked.

‘No,’ said Jordan, ‘but we’ll be able to see the whole street from there. Besides, I’m hungry.’

I could think of at least five other places that would’ve given us a heaps better view of the street. But if Jordan was choosing here, then here was fine by me.

‘Okay, good idea,’ I said. ‘What do you want? I’m buying.’

I grinned at Luke. He gave me a pitying look, and we went to lock up our bikes.

Flameburger is what you get instead of McDonald’s when your town is plotting the apocalypse. The burgers are bigger, but the end of the world is kind of a high price to pay for extra cheese.

I went inside to order while Jordan and Luke picked out a table on the street.

Mike’s mum was waiting in the next line over, still wearing her medical centre uniform. I went to say hi and she suddenly became very interested in a menu on the opposite wall.

Weird. What did I ever do to her?

A few minutes later, I was back with the food.

‘Wouldn’t it be easier to just go find Reeve’s house?’ Luke was asking.

‘Sure, if we want to get a door slammed in our faces,’ I said, sitting down and handing Jordan a burger.

‘Thanks,’ she said. ‘Yeah, I don’t think he’d be too happy with us if we started visiting him at home. Not fair on his family either. We have to ambush him in town.’

She glanced sideways at the empty table next to us, like she could see something we couldn’t.

‘Ah, yes,’ I said, ‘the old sit around eating burgers and wait for him to come to us ambush.

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