The Ice Chips and the Grizzly Escape by Roy MacGregor

Author:Roy MacGregor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Riverton, present

Jack, who was standing in the centre of the dressing room, had his arm in a box of Cheerios, all the way up to the elbow.

“Whoa, don’t eat too fast,” Bond said with a smirk as she watched the hockey camp’s trickmaster hold his third handful up to his mouth. “You don’t want a tummy ache out on the ice!”

That morning at breakfast, Lucas had been eating his Cheerios at his family’s kitchen table while Connor, wearing an extremely small pair of glasses that normally belonged to an owl puppet they owned, was lightly tapping a hard-boiled egg with a spoon. Lucas was thinking about Anahim Lake and some of the things that Shayna and Nolan had told him about Jack after the leaping kids had reappeared on the ice at home.

When they’d returned to the present, Mouth Guard, Lucas, Shayna, and Swift had rolled over the rink’s centre line as though they’d all just fallen off the back of a horse. In Riverton time, this happened only a split second after the kids had disappeared, as though a light had flickered and that was it. Edge’s and Nolan’s mouths had immediately dropped open—not because of the time trick but because of what Lucas was holding in his hands. He’d managed to bring the small fly rod Suchai’s sister had made back through the wormhole. And attached to it was a rainbow trout!

“Whaaa—? Where on earth did you go this time?” Edge had shouted, leaping to his feet.

Nolan burst out laughing with one big, joy-filled “BAA-HAHA!” when he saw Lucas’s catch. And then everyone hurried to get their equipment off and their stuff together before Quiet Dave came back to the rink after his meeting with his daughter. Lucas was giving back Nolan’s light-up puck when Shayna and her brother confided in him.

The Stars’ defender said she, too, had noticed what Jack ate for breakfast. And she’d asked him about it. Jack told her that he didn’t have parents to make or buy him food. He and his brother, Josh, had been living in a group home—a place where some grown-ups were paid to look after kids who were on their own—until two years ago, when Josh turned eighteen. At that point, the two of them had got their own apartment, and later they’d moved to Riverton. Now Josh worked early mornings at the grocery store to pay their rent, and Jack got his own breakfast, often from a pillowcase of candy he still had left over from Halloween.

“Look, Lucas! Look!” cried Connor as the egg he was tapping suddenly showed a crack. A piece of the brown shell fell off, revealing the soft, shiny white of the egg beneath it. Instantly, Connor started to cry. “I thought I was getting a pet! He was ap-posed to jump out and be mine! It’s just an egg!”

Connor’s wish for a pet reminded Lucas of Suchai and his dogs, which in turn reminded him of when the goalie had said that breakfast was an important meal if you were going to be doing sports or learning new skills.

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