Saving Abbie by Allan Baillie

Author:Allan Baillie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742283098
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2009-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

‘Hey, Monkey Breath, give us your dance!’ called Thick Lip.

‘No.’ Ian shook his head.

Thick Lip look astonished. ‘No? What is this? Hey guys, the Monkey Breath is hassling us.’ He moved in the way of Ian.

‘I don’t want to. I want to go home.’ Ian stepped sideways.

Thick Lip moved in his way again. ‘Hey, he talks. A monkey that talks.’

Ian looked up at Thick Lip. ‘It is an orangutan.’

‘Yeah, yeah, monkeys, oranges, what’s the difference?’

Ian blinked, licked his lips. He thought. Has to be, no other way. He kept his voice down, sitting on a nervous quiver. ‘What’s different is that the orangutan is an ape. Like us.’

‘You calling me a dumb ape?’

Ian swallowed. ‘Some orangs seem to be smarter than some guys.’

Thick Lip cocked his head, as if he wasn’t quite sure what he heard. Then the bunch roared in laughter. ‘Hey!’ he shouted and swung.

It was a short fight. Ian dodged the first punch, he even hit Thick Lip in the eye, but then Thick Lip clouted him in the lip, the stomach, the ear …

He was sprawled in the dirt and he heard a girl shouting.

‘Come on, Tash.’ One of the bunch. ‘Leave the mad kid.’

Thick Lip snorted from far above, and he was gone.

Then there was someone’s squatted knee. ‘You all right?’

Ian pulled his head up from the ground and focussed at a girl with glittering butterfly glasses. ‘Wasn’t as bad as the ship,’ he said.

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