Grace's Dance Disaster by Samantha Turnbull

Author:Samantha Turnbull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

I sprint across the front lawn like a gazelle.

‘Mum, Dad!’ I yell. ‘Tom, Harry!’

They’re all in the kitchen packing food into containers.

‘Hi, Grace,’ Mum says. ‘We’re going to the hospital to have dinner with Oliver.’

I thought the anti-princesses looked mopey this afternoon, but my family is worse.

‘I have some exciting news to tell you first,’ I say. ‘It’s about Manchester United.’

Dad slams his fist on the sink. The noise shocks Mum and she drops a tub of salad on the floor.

‘We need to forget about Manchester United, Grace,’ Dad says. ‘It will drive us all insane to keep thinking about it.’

Tom’s throat wobbles. He’s not ready to give up, and neither am I.

‘But Dad, I found out where they’re staying,’ I say. ‘They’re at the Harbour View Hotel in town.’

Harry claps his hands in delight. ‘We could stalk them! When they come out we could tell them what happened to Oliver. I bet they’d give us tickets if they knew our story.’

Dad helps Mum pick up lettuce leaves. ‘Look, kids, I’m sorry to let you down,’ he says. ‘But don’t you realise there’d be at least another dozen people who missed out on tickets with sob stories just like ours?’

Surely Mum will see the light.

‘Mum, come on,’ I say. ‘It’s our last chance.’

She bites her lip.

Harry and Tom look at her anxiously.

‘Your dad is right,’ she says. ‘We need to move on, if not for ourselves then for Oliver’s sake. He blames himself for our missing out on the tickets. When we get to the hospital I don’t want to hear another word about it. He’s in enough pain as it is.’

I slump onto a stool and lay my head on the kitchen bench.

‘This is SO unfair!’ Tom yells, and storms off to his room with Harry.

I grab a pen and a piece of paper from next to the telephone and start to scribble madly.

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