The Unlikely Heroes Club by Kate Foster

Author:Kate Foster [Foster, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-76065-598-3
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

I clamber out of the car. I’m focused and don’t want to lose that. I know how easily distracted I am. The weather is blustery and wet today, and Mum’s long flowery dress with buttons down the front is flapping and billowing as wind and rain belt in the open sides and then across the top floor of the car park. The wind is so loud that the screeching brakes, banging of tyres over bumps and slamming of car doors are muffled.

Mum speaks to me as she locks the car, but I hurry towards the lifts, eager to get inside and hatch a plan with the other HERO Club kids to save the dog.

I have to. Time is running out.

Though Dad took me over to the graffiti building yesterday, it was useless. He refused to go past the hoarding, saying it was trespassing and therefore illegal and could also be dangerous. He says I need to stop thinking about the dog, which he said he understands is hard for me, and to let someone else be the hero and save it. I did not like hearing that.

And now I know that it’s pointless trying to get the adults – even the ones I love and trust – to listen. Layla was right. You have to do things yourself.

Mum is saying something else to me now as I bash the button to call the lift with my elbow and then “Oli?” in a louder voice. Her eyebrows are arched. “Are you okay?”

I nod. “Yes.”

Before I know it, we’re out of the lift and I’m looking at the back of Brian’s head where he sits on the corner of the road, even in the rain. I don’t mind the rain either, but I’m not a fan of the wind so I let my feet take me straight to the undercover area.

I was so angry and sad after yesterday’s rubbish HERO Club and Dad’s words and finding out that the graffiti building is going to be demolished that I cried a lot. Cathy was spending the night at another friend’s house so I couldn’t even talk to her. When Mum asked what was wrong and I mentioned the dog, Dad butted in and said that we weren’t going to talk about the dog again.

I went to bed early with a headache, and that’s when I remembered the breathing exercises. I practised, exactly the way Dan and Marge instructed, and it helped. My emotions calmed down and my brain came up with a plan.

Mum and Dad won’t listen, Cathy isn’t around to talk to. It’s just me and the other kids – but can I rely on them?

“Want to make a wish?” Mum asks, holding out a twenty-cent coin to me.

I lick my lips. I wasn’t going to bother making a wish today and didn’t even get a coin out of my skyscraper moneybox this morning. Yesterday proved that third time lucky does not work with wishes. But, now that we’re here and Mum is offering me a coin, and I have a plan, I decide that I might as well try.

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