Fortune Cookie by Jean Ure

Author:Jean Ure [Jean Ure]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007313709
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2009-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Miracles do happen! I’d said so to Cupcake, and she hadn’t believed me. But they do – and one did! It happened to me and Cupcake the very next day, in Cupcake’s back garden. Not that we immediately recognised it as a miracle. It wasn’t like we suddenly discovered a load of buried treasure or a wad of banknotes tossed over the fence. I don’t think miracles are ever that simple. I think what they do is, they point the way, like a sort of signpost: FOLLOW THIS PATH. And then it’s up to you whether you follow it or not. Sometimes, probably, with a lot of people, they don’t even notice. It just goes to show, you have to be on the lookout.

What happened with me and Cupcake, we were in the garden playing with Cookie and racking our brains how to make more money. Cupcake had a pen and a notepad and was writing a list. So far the list had three things on it:

Sponsored run

Sponsored sing

Sponsored sit

The run was my idea; the singing was Cupcake’s. But since I can’t sing and Cupcake’s no use at running, we reckoned we might as well cross them off before we even started. So then we thought maybe we could spend the whole of lunch break sitting absolutely still, like statues, and people could come and watch us and pay us money for every minute we didn’t twitch.

I said, “That way, the whole school could give us money… we could make hundreds!”

“Like last time,” said Cupcake. “We were going to make hundreds last time.”

“Yes, but that was just our year group. This would be the whole school!”

Cupcake said, “Mm… maybe.”

I knew I hadn’t convinced her. I wasn’t really convinced myself. I sighed, and tossed Cookie’s ball for him. He scampered after it, on three legs, then suddenly stopped. His tail went down, his head went down. His sides started heaving. Cupcake went into instant panic.

“What’s happening? What’s happening? What’s wrong with him?”

It’s just as well that I know about dogs. “It’s all right,” I said. “He’s only being sick.”

“But why? What’s wrong?”

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