The Boy Who Flew with Dragons by Andy Shepherd

Author:Andy Shepherd [Andy Shepherd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Standing at the back of Herb’s Fruit and Veg Shop, I listened to her read out her long list of must-haves. This was going to take a while. I’d just started building a Brussels-sprout mountain when I saw Liam come into the shop. I wriggled down behind some crates of bananas.

Herb’s assistant Mandy greeted Liam and then bent to listen as he started whispering something. She straightened up and shook her head, looking confused. He started waving his hands about like he was drawing something in the air. She shook her head again and shrugged. Whatever he’d asked her about, the answer was obviously no.

He scowled and stomped out of the shop, muttering under his breath.

I resisted the urge to run straight over and quiz Mandy. I’d watched enough spy shows to know that if you want someone to give up some vital piece of information, you have to act all nonchalant, like you don’t really care.

I sauntered over. And slipped on one of the bananas. It was hard to act nonchalant when you’d just landed flat on your face.

‘Er … hello,’ I said, wiping smooshed banana off my forehead and rubbing at the rapidly appearing lump.

‘Can I help you?’ she asked.

‘I just … you know … saw my old mate Liam. He looked a bit … you know … put out, you know … fed up … you know?’

She looked out the door and then back at me, one eyebrow wiggling up towards her curly mop of red hair.

‘Oh, him,’ she said. ‘Bit of a grump, your mate, isn’t he?’

I smiled and nodded sympathetically.

‘Got all stroppy just because we didn’t have any of these weird fruit he was looking for. I told him I haven’t even heard of them, let alone seen one.’

‘Weird fruit?’ I asked.

But – let’s face it – I already knew what was coming.

‘Yeah, he wanted some dragon-fruit thing. The way he described it, I told him someone must be pulling his leg. I’ve never seen anything looking like that.’

And she headed off towards a lady who was loudly sniffing lemons. While I stood there looking a bit of a lemon myself, with my mouth hanging open. All I could picture was Liam with arms full of dragon fruits.

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