The Boy Who Lived with Dragons by Andy Shepherd

Author:Andy Shepherd [Andy Shepherd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Published: 2018-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

‘I can’t believe it,’ Ted said, taking another huge bite of the toffee apple he was holding.

‘I can’t believe you just fitted that in your mouth,’ said Kat in disgust. And then added, ‘You’re absolutely sure about this, Tomas?’

I gave them both a ‘you think I’d lie about something like this?’ look.

‘So he didn’t get burned messing about with chemicals?’ Kat said.

I shook my head. ‘Looks like he got on the wrong end of those green jets to me.’

‘It certainly explains all the weird behaviour,’ Ted mumbled through sticky toffee teeth. ‘I mean being too preoccupied to lay into us. And that fuss he made about his leg when Kai hardly touched him.’ Ted threw Sunny a lump of even stickier apple and the dragon’s belly shone brightly as he gobbled it up.

‘Trust Liam to muscle in on the best thing that’s ever happened to us,’ moaned Kai.

‘But when? And how? You think he really sneaked into your grandad’s garden?’ Kat asked

I already knew he had.

‘Don’t you remember the night we camped?’ I said. ‘After the dragons chased Grim away, we saw Liam in the lane. He must have followed us earlier, sneaked into the farmer’s field, watched us catching the dragons through the hedge and then waited till we’d left. He could easily have crawled through and caught one. There were still fruits on the tree. We were just too excited about catching ours to hang about.’

Kai groaned.

‘The question is, what are we going to do about it?’ I asked.

‘Whatever we do, it can’t involve getting into any more trouble,’ Kat said. ‘Mum already erupted more spectacularly than that volcano Vesuvius when she found out about the farm trip.’

I thought back to the lecture we had all had from Mr Firth, and Mum’s horror when she’d been informed of our part in it all. I guess I can see why he thought the four of us were entirely responsible for the utter devastation that our school trip turned into. As he’d come around the corner he’d seen Ted covered in cake and jam in the middle of the food fight. Then, beyond him, Kat with an armful of piglets, climbing over the fence of the paddock, and Kai chasing a hysterical ostrich. And then there was me, staggering out of the barn, leaving the nursery of flowers burning behind me. Whichever way you looked at it, it didn’t look good. I’d just had time to see Liam smirking as Mr Firth frogmarched us away.

‘We are “on very thin ice” apparently,’ Kat said doing a surprisingly good imitation of her own mum.

‘And it’s not helped by those two,’ Kai said, pointing up at Crystal and Dodger. ‘It’s not easy hiding two dragons.’

‘Especially those two,’ added Kat.

I watched Crystal frosting Dodger’s tail. Every time he bashed the icicles away she did it again. It looked like they were as good at winding each other up as Kat and Kai were. I guess they’d learned a few things from living with the twins.

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