Scram! by Lauren Child

Author:Lauren Child
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

I decide I might as well slither out because I can’t hide under here forever and also I’ve got pins and needles in my left or right leg – I can’t even tell which one it is any more because it is utterly numb to the bone.

Marcie has got her mouth open in that way people do when they are just about to shout something slightly rudely or surprisedly but nothing comes out.

Like in the cartoons.

She looks at me with her eyes gone big.

Then she says, ‘Where did it come from?’

And I say, ‘I think I might have wished him up.’

And she says, ‘What do you mean?’

So I say,

‘He just appeared and then he sort of started following me. It wasn’t my idea –

he came up with it on his own.’

She says, ‘You are saying

he followed you into my bedroom?’

I say, ‘No, he followed me home and then we were hiding out because I was worrying Minal would tell – he’s such a little big mouth. And I don’t want him to say anything to Grandad

because he will worry that Chirp

might be eaten.’

She says, ‘But who does the dog belong to?’

I say, ‘He doesn’t belong to anyone.’

She says, ‘How do you know?’

I say, ‘Mr Clement was talking about him

to Grandad and they both were saying

how he’s a stray who was on the hill living under the bench and Mr Clement was going to call the dog-collector people

because no one is responsible for him.

This dog is a dog on his own.’

Marcie looks like she might cry.

Marcie never cries except if it is to do with dogs being sad.

I say, ‘I don’t think he wants to go to the dog-rescue place because otherwise he wouldn’t have followed me.’

Marcie nods her head and says,

‘I think we should

keep him.’

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