This Wonderful Thing by Adam Baron

Author:Adam Baron [Baron, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-12-23T17:00:00+00:00

So it WAS a fake. The medal at Hall Place!

The fact that I was right made me clench my fists with satisfaction. Though it annoyed me too. I wanted to go back. I wanted to tell that helper AND Veronique. I wanted to show them the medal as it looked on the Internet. Veronique was asleep, though. And, when we got up in the morning, I couldn’t get her on her own.

Because she was practically GLUED to Ellen.

‘What do you have for breakfast?’ I heard Ellen ask her, as I waited outside the bathroom. They’d been in there for HOURS and I was DESPERATE.

‘Weetabix,’ Veronique said. ‘Normally.’

‘So do I!’ Ellen cried, though that was a LIE! When they FINALLY came out, I hissed, ‘You have rice crispies.’

‘What?’

‘Yesterday you did NOT have Weetabix. I had Weetabix. ME! YOU had rice crispies!’

Ellen just laughed, and Veronique squinted at me. ‘Cymbeline,’ she said, ‘you’re so funny sometimes.’

I watched them hurry off downstairs.

I wanted to tell Veronique about the medal when we were on the way to school – Ellen wouldn’t be there, would she? Veronique’s mum came, though, with some school clothes for her. She then drove us both and I couldn’t get a word in. I just had to listen as Veronique went ‘ELLEN this’ and ‘ELLEN that’, babbling on about what a great time they’d had and if she could go to Ellen’s gymnastics club.

‘And can Ellen come over to our house sometime?’

‘Course,’ Veronique’s mum said. ‘I like your hair by the way. Will you do mine like that?’

‘Ellen did it,’ Veronique replied. ‘She’s amazing!’

I stared out of the window. ‘S-h-e’s a-m-a-z-i-n-g,’ I mouthed.

I gave up on the medal for now – because a thought had come to me. And it was BAD. What if Ellen didn’t stop at stealing Veronique from me? What if she then moved on to Lance?! What if I had to watch her trying to get him to teach her kick-ups? Or what if she asked to go cycling with him, which Lance loves but I’m not that fussed about (I mean, HILLS, people). Or worse: what if I had to watch them both, knee-deep in Lego, MY Lego, Ellen smirking up at me as they built a brand-new Death Star?!

No. I couldn’t let it happen. So I asked Veronique’s mum about their burglary. That finally stopped Veronique talking about Ellen, because she wanted to know too. Mrs Chang sighed.

‘They really made a mess.’

‘Did they pull all the books off the shelves and stuff?’

‘That’s right. Looking for money, I guess.’

‘What did they take?’

‘My laptop and David’s camera.’

She meant Veronique’s dad. ‘Was Veronique’s room bad?’

‘Awful.’

‘And they smashed your door down?’

‘They did, but it’s odd.’

‘What is?’

‘Well, your Auntie Mill’s got CCTV.’

I knew that. My Auntie Mill lives next door to Veronique and I’ve seen their security cameras.

‘It just about stretches to our door, but Mill says she can’t see the burglars going in.’

‘Can’t she?’

‘No.’

‘So how can they have smashed the door?’

‘No idea, though they did. Anyway, it’s all cleared up now.

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