My Mum the Pirate by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Rain

It rained all through lunch. It rained all through maths.

Cecil looked at his watch. Only another hour to go and then he was never coming back to school, ever. He’d become a pirate even if he had to drink turtle dung and vampire bat seasick potion all his life, even if he got a stiff neck from watching the stars, even if it meant leaving behind the library and the computers and all the books … And your friends, said a small voice in his brain.

‘They’re not my friends!’ Cecil told himself. No one would want to be friends with a kid from a pirate ship!

He looked at his watch again. Fifty-eight minutes till the bell … Suddenly the bell pealed, over and over. Cecil looked at his watch again. It must be slow! But the bell kept on ringing and ringing and ringing. Then suddenly it stopped, and Mrs Parsnip’s voice came through the intercom.

‘Attention everyone! This is an emergency. I repeat this is not a drill! Would everyone please take their bags and proceed immediately to the school hall. I repeat, this is an emergency. Everyone is to go to the school hall now!’

‘What’s happening?’ asked someone in the back.

Mr Farthingale shook his head. ‘Right, row by row, front row first. No shoving, no running, just grab your bags and walk—not run—as fast as you can to the hall. Front row.’

Chairs scraped as kids got up.

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