Journey to Wudang by Kylie Chan

Author:Kylie Chan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

When I arrived home, I heard a bang from Simone’s room then a hissing that sounded as if she was hushing someone. I went to the door and tapped on it. ‘Hey, Simone, can I come in?’

‘Just a second!’ she called urgently, and there was more hushed discussion.

‘Do you have a boy in there?’ I said. ‘Michael, is that you?’

Simone opened the door a crack. ‘Nobody here but me.’

‘Don’t lie to me, Simone, you really suck at it. Who’s in there? I’d like to say hello. You don’t need to hide anything, sweethear —’ I swallowed the word. ‘Simone.’

She smiled tightly. ‘Nobody here but me. I’m watching a video, that’s all.’ Then came the sound of water hitting carpet and she squealed. ‘No, Freddo, bad boy! Not here on the carpet …’ Her voice changed to a moan. ‘Oh damn.’

I opened the door wider and saw the demon foal in the middle of the room, ears back, eyes half-closed, back legs stretched out wide, urinating in a high-pressure stream onto Simone’s bedroom carpet. The smell was so strong that my eyes watered.

Simone grabbed Freddo around his middle and they both disappeared.

I went to the kitchen to find Monica. ‘You’ll never believe what’s happened, Monica. Can you get some carpet cleaners up here? We have something of an emergency.’

Fifteen minutes later, Simone returned, cowed and sheepish. She came into the office and sat across the desk from me. ‘Sorry, Emma. I’ll clean it up, I promise.’

‘Him piddling on the carpet was worse than him pooping on it, I swear. The whole flat reeks of it.’

‘I’ll have the water elementals flush the carpet for me.’

‘Carpet cleaners are on their way to steam-clean it.’

She thought for a moment, then concentrated. ‘I told Monica to cancel them. I can make the elementals steam.’

‘You can’t make them soap and deodorise the carpet as well, so tell her to bring the carpet cleaners up,’ I said. ‘But let your elementals have a try first.’

She grimaced and dropped her head. ‘Okay. Sorry, Emma.’

‘Why didn’t you go to the Celestial to play with him? A Hong Kong flat is not the ideal environment for a young horse.’

‘He wanted to see my room.’

I shook my head. ‘Can’t you find something else to do?’

She swung her chair around in a circle. ‘I’m so bored! I have nothing else to do!’

‘Contact the principal of CH and make an appointment to see him tomorrow with a view to Simone starting school next week,’ the stone in my ring said.

‘Can I? Will he see me so much earlier than the original appointment?’ Simone said.

‘Ask him and see,’ the stone replied. ‘Emma, I’ve opened a composition email on your desktop with his address in it. Email him and ask him.’

The stone had already written the formal text of the request; all I had to do was fill in the blanks.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.