Ninety-five percent Human: A young adult romance alien invasion adventure by Suzanna Williams

Author:Suzanna Williams [Williams, Suzanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beresford Publishing House
Published: 2013-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen

“Josephine.”

Rhys’ voice sounds so close he’s almost in my head. He bangs on the door again and the whole caravan shakes. “You need to see this,” he calls.

My heart’s thumping as I fight to free myself from my sleeping bag.

Sarah’s already got her hand on the catch. “Should I open it?” she asks.

I nod. Rhys seems so urgent I’m half-expecting to see another major disaster occurring on the farm. Instead, he waves a newspaper in my face.

“Look,” he says. “My first paid story. You two are heroes.”

“You wrote about us?” I stutter.

Rhys must mistake the horror in my voice for me being impressed.

“I did,” he says. “And I’d have made the front page if there hadn’t been robberies on ATMs all over the county last night.”

I snatch the paper from him. The main headline reads ‘Cashpoint thefts baffle police’ but there’s a picture of me, Sarah and Ant man-handling Nan through the window of the farmhouse with the words ‘Superhuman teen saves pensioner from fire... full story on page two.’

Rhys is fairly jumping up and down as I fumble to turn the page. There are more pictures; firefighters spraying water on the flames, the charred remains of the house silhouetted against the sky and Sarah with her smoke-stained face sitting with Meg. I read the article out loud.

“In a heroic rescue yesterday, sixteen-year-old Sarah Connor single-handedly braved intense smoke and flames to pull a pensioner from her home near Llandrillo. The fire, which started when a spark from an unattended AGA ignited the cushions on a sofa, filled the house with toxic fumes and it was only Sarah’s almost superhuman ability to hold her breath which enabled the plucky teenager to pull seventy-seven-year-old Mair Kendrick to safety. Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus from Wrexham and Corwen attended the scene, and it took over four hours to put out the blaze. Sarah was staying at the farm during an exchange visit from Florida.”

I glance at Sarah. Her face had been serious since Rhys arrived. Now she’s nearly white. I can’t read any more.

“This is rubbish,” I splutter.

Rhys takes a step backwards.

“I mean, where did you get those facts?” I ask. “How do you know Sarah’s sixteen? And why did you say she’s from Florida? I never told you that. It’s not even right and, I don’t even know how old Nan is myself.”

“I’m a journalist,” says Rob defensively. “I have my sources.”

“You made it up,” I say. My hands are shaking as I check back to the paper. “‘Her superhuman ability to hold her breath’,” I quote. “It’s crap.”

“Almost superhuman ability,” corrects Rhys.

“How could you do this?”

Rhys frowns as though the fact his writing might not please us has only just occurred to him.

“Don’t you like it?” he asks.

“No!” I say. “I don’t want to tell the entire world about my troubles. Nan’ll be furious you’ve called her a pensioner, and you’ve made Sarah sound like a superhuman freak.”

Rhys frowns more. “Do you honestly think anyone on this mountain hadn’t heard about the fire?” he says.

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