Off the Track by Cristy Burne

Author:Cristy Burne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

What was in there, anyway? Harry’s sleeping bag wouldn’t fit, not even after Ana had repacked it into a tiny stuff sack. She’d had to shove it into her own pack and she’d given him another super-daggy spare jumper to carry instead. So now all he had was … He tried to work it out. His water bottle. Two spare jumpers. Muesli bars. Too many warm socks. Some seaweed crackers … That was it.

Perhaps Ana snuck in something extra? Like slippers made of lead? He wouldn’t put it past her.

He was deep in thought when Deepika cried out.

‘We’re here!’

She turned to him, brown face flushed and happy. Ahead of her, on the edge of the track, was a low, wooden sign showing a silhouette of a man and a woman. A toilet.

Harry was happy to find a toilet. He’d been busting for ages, only he didn’t like to mention it. But all the same, he’d been hoping for a hut, even one with only three walls.

Then Deepika pointed beyond the toilet sign, into the distance. There, fading into the shimmer of the trees, was the unmistakable line of a roof. A dark green, corrugated roof. The hut! The actual hut! They really had made it.

Deepika and Harry ran the last stretch, calling out as they went.

‘Mum!’

‘Mum! We’re here!’

Harry hoped they weren’t frantic. ‘Mu-um! We made it!’

There was no answer.

And when they burst from the track, into full sight of the hut, there was no sign that anyone had ever been there. No heavy packs discarded out the front. No tired hikers relaxing in the last of the sun. No cooker or hot, curly noodles. Just a couple of wooden picnic tables. A concrete fire pit. And the hut, made of wood, complete with the promised three sides.

Harry could see right inside.

It was empty.

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