Molly Moon & the Monster Music by Georgia Byng

Author:Georgia Byng
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Twenty

Molly stroked a white fox-fur hat and coat that had been ordered for her from the best furrier in Tokyo. She put them on and admired herself in the mirror.

“Better on me than on a fox,” she said to herself. “Perfect for chilly Moscow.”

Her bedroom door opened quietly and Hiroyuki and Chokichi stood there.

“Are you off soon?” Chokichi asked sadly.

“Yes.”

The boys fidgeted. Molly ignored them.

“We’re really worried,” Hiroyuki said. “Yesterday Gerry and your friend Rocky left the apartment early and didn’t come back. Do you think they went back to England? They didn’t say good-bye.”

“No idea!” said Molly nonchalantly.

“Toka’s been looking everywhere for them,” said Chokichi, shaking his head.

“Oh, don’t worry about them. Really. They can take care of themselves.”

There was an awkward pause as Hiroyuki and Chokichi watched Molly zipping up her case.

“Toka wanted me to thank you,” Chokichi said.

“Oh yes?” Molly said, putting on a pair of furry ankle boots.

“Yes. Because of you, Mr. Proila lost some of his interest in us. So Toka can leave the band. He hate being pop star so this is good for him and we are happy that he can follow his dream—join sumo wrestling school. Sobo is old friends with sumo wrestling master.”

“Sobo?” Molly asked distractedly.

“Our grandmother. We’re very happy Toka is happy,” Hiroyuki said. “Chokichi and I fine just the two of us. So thanks, Molly.”

Molly shrugged. The boys could become sewage workers for all she cared. She grabbed her case. “Bye!”

Hiroyuki faltered for a moment, wondering where the warm Molly he had known had gone. But he was so infatuated by Molly’s music that he just smiled. He passed Molly a handful of tiny little origami animals. “I made these for you.”

Molly nodded as she took them. “Pretty!” she said.

On her way through the sitting room Molly saw the dark shape of the grandmother lurking in the shadows under the stairs. Molly winked at her and gave her a hard, cold smile.

Molly’s whistle-stop tour began.

She flew by private jet to Moscow, arriving late at night. She stayed in a beautiful hotel on the Moskva River and woke to wonderful views of the capital—its grand old buildings topped with brilliant onion-shaped domes, some gold, others colored and stripy like raspberry ripple ice cream.

That day, Molly was driven around Moscow past impressive bridges and across ancient squares. Her day finished with a performance in the famous Bolshoi Theatre. The theater was gold inside, with comfortable velvet seats and a wealthy audience. Molly thought this suited the first stop of her great tour perfectly.

As expected, her concert was a huge success—so much so that the next morning she had breakfast with the president of Russia. Then she was taken to the airport, where a private jet waited to fly her to Italy.

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