MISSING! a Cat Called Buster by Wendy Orr

Author:Wendy Orr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2011-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

9

The next day was the First Monday of the Month Assembly.

Josh left for school early. His stomach was as squirmy as if he’d swallowed a bucket of caterpillars.

He turned right at the first corner, and when he got to Mr. Larsen’s house, he opened the gate.

He knocked on the door just in case someone was there. No one was. Josh walked all around the outside of the house, peering into every corner of the garden.

“Here, Buster!” he called. “Come on, kitty, kitty!”

There was no sign of a cat anywhere, not the faintest meow.

Josh walked slowly back down the path to the sidewalk. His shoulders drooped and he scuffed his feet; the caterpillars in his stomach had turned into a swarm of butterflies. He did not want to go to school.

He stared through the fence of the house that was being built next door, but the garden had been bulldozed. There were just piles of lumber and wood, metal tubes and pipes—no fat bushy shrubs for a cat to crawl under or leafy trees to climb.

Josh straightened his backpack and walked to school. The butterflies in his stomach grew into bouncing birds.

I could still change my mind, he told himself as he turned onto Ocean Street.

I don’t have to do it, he thought as he waited for the crossing guard.

Why am I even thinking of doing the scariest thing I can think of doing? he wondered as he walked in the gate.

Because Buster’s a lot more scared than I am, he decided as he stepped into the auditorium. But right now he felt so scared that it was hard to believe.

What Josh didn’t ask himself was why it was so important for him to help Buster. That question had been spinning around at the back of his mind all night, till there wasn’t even any point in wondering about it anymore.

He just knew he had to do it.

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