A Tiger Tale by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

She stood up wearily, and saw that Ella had been waiting for Izzy. She’d heard Kate shout. Izzy was still crying, and Ella was glaring up the corridor at Kate. She put her arm round Izzy’s shoulders, and led her back into the classroom.

Kate sighed. So now they really, really hated her.

Ella’s older brother was at the holiday club as well. Kate found that out at lunchtime, when she was sitting on her own, eating her sandwiches, and a boy walked past and tipped over her bottle of orange juice.

Kate jumped up, brushing uselessly at the juice all over the front of her jeans.

“Oh, sorry! It was an accident.” The boy sounded apologetic, and when Jasmine hurried over to see what had happened, he pulled a tissue out of his pocket, and started patting at the juice puddled in Kate’s lunch box. “I’m really sorry! I must have knocked the table or something…” He even looked sorry. Until Jasmine turned away to get some more paper towels and he smirked nastily at Kate.

“That’s what you get for being horrible to my sister and her friend. Stupid stuck-up little baby.”

Kate shook her head, staring at him. “But I wasn’t! I mean, I did, but I wasn’t meaning to be horrible. I just…” But how could she explain? She didn’t want to tell this boy about Granddad either. She just shook her head again, feeling stupid.

“You think you’re better than everyone else,” he snapped back.

“No…”

Jasmine came back then, and the boy was all apologetic again. He fussed around, helping to clear up but “accidentally” sloshing more juice on to Kate, until Jasmine told him she’d do it and he could go back to his own lunch.

“Are you OK, Kate? Did the juice go on the rest of your lunch? I can get you something else to eat from the staffroom.”

Kate shook her head. She wasn’t hungry anyway. “It’s all right,” she murmured.

Jasmine went off to put away the mop, and Kate sat looking at her juice-spattered biscuits. They were probably all right, wrapped up in their cling film, but she didn’t open them. She zipped her lunch box shut again and put it in her rucksack, and then she just sat there, with her head hanging. Everyone was looking at her, she could tell. And whispering about her.

“She’s crying…”

“Harry shouldn’t have done that, it was mean.”

“But didn’t you hear? She was really horrible to Ella and Izzy.”

“What did she do?”

“Oh, I don’t know, but Ella said she was mean. Harry was just sticking up for Ella.”

“She really is crying, look at her.”

“She looks like she’s wet herself, with that juice all over her jeans.”

Then there was just giggling. Molly was over there, somewhere, but she didn’t stick up for Kate. She didn’t say anything. Kate couldn’t help thinking that Harry was horrible, but at least he looked after his sister.

Kate reached down, pretending to look for something in her bag, so she could touch Amos’s fur. It was lucky that boy hadn’t got juice on him too.

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