Only Children by David Baddiel

Author:David Baddiel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

The train was going very fast now, faster than it should. But more importantly Chrissie, with her eagle eye for everything to do with trains, could see it was no longer on the right track.

The bump at the points change had shifted it on to the opposite track: the track, in other words, going in the opposite direction. Well. The track wasn’t going in the opposite direction. But other trains on it would be.

“We’re on the wrong side of the tracks!” said Chrissie.

“What, metaphorically?” said Karen. “We’re passing through a bad part of town?”

“No! Really! We’re on the wrong track!”

“Oh . . . Is that bad?”

“Well,” said Grandpa. “Not until a train appears, heading straight towards us. Then it definitely will be.”

“Oh goodness!” said Karen. “OK! I’ll call the driver.”

She reached inside her jacket for her phone.

“What . . . hang on . . . arrggh!” she said, taking out not a phone, but a pigeon. She held it away from her, terrified. The pigeon flapped its wings, but didn’t fly away.

“What’s that doing there?” she screamed. “And how long has it been in there?!”

“Look!” said Grandpa, pointing to a rolled-up piece of paper around its leg. “It’s a carrier pigeon.” He reached out and took the pigeon gently in his arms. “It’ll have been trained.”

“Not to not poo inside my jacket, I can tell you that for starters!” said Karen, looking at some very suspicious marks inside the lining.

“We could write a message on the paper and send the pigeon out of the window to fly to the driver!” said Grandpa.

“I don’t think so, Grandpa,” said Chrissie. “We haven’t got time. Besides, I think the train is going too fast for that now!”

Grandpa looked very worried. As did Karen.

The sound of the wheels on the track was getting faster and faster.

Biddlydabiddlydabiddlydabiddlydabiddly dabiddlydabiddlyda!!!!

“What shall we do?” he said.

Chrissie thought for a second. Then she said: “Fetch my wheelchair!”

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