The Chocolate Dog by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

It didn’t look particularly comfortable for hiding out in, Amy decided at last. It was a bit scary, the thought of huddling up in her sleeping bag under those bushes. And prickly. And what if there were foxes?

She jumped as one of the little girls inside the playground raced along the bridge of the climbing frame, shrieking as her friend chased after her. Amy watched them dash by. The climbing frame was a massive one with all sorts of platforms and tunnels, and a couple of the little bridges ran over the back fence and out on to the grass in front of the brambly bit. The ends of the bridges had been blocked off, so that smaller children didn’t use them to run out of the playground. But it would be quite easy to wriggle up on to them. Even Choc could do it if she gave him a boost.

The two little girls were playing on the seesaw now, so Amy quickly stuffed her rucksack and sleeping bag up on to the bridge and then picked up Choc. He wriggled in surprise, and she staggered. He wasn’t a huge dog, but he was heavy. “Come on, up, Choc!” she muttered, trying to squish him under the metal side-rails of the bridge. Choc scrabbled indignantly but clambered on, and then whisked round to poke his nose out under the rails, as if to ask her what on earth they were doing.

“It’s all right, I’m coming too.” Amy hauled herself up and rolled sideways on to the bridge. “Come on.” She snapped her fingers, and he scurried after her down the sloping bridge to the little turret at the end of the climbing frame. “Look, it’s perfect, you see,” Amy murmured to him. “No one can see us. The rain won’t get in it, and it’s just about big enough to stretch out in my sleeping bag.” She set the rucksack down in the corner of the dusty little space and sighed. It was a bit gloomy. Running away felt as though it ought to be more exciting somehow. She unzipped her rucksack. Maybe a biscuit would help.

Choc sniffed his way around the edge of the little room, and then put his nose out of the little doorway. He saw no reason to stay inside, and the two little girls were sitting on a bench not far away, eating raisins. He liked raisins.

“Choc, no!” Amy hissed as he set off, tail wagging, and head held sideways in his trademark shy-but-starved-dog pose. She lunged for his collar and grabbed him back. “Look, it’s OK, you can have one of my iced rings. You have to stay here. You aren’t allowed in the playground. No dogs.”

Choc gave her an affronted look – Amy didn’t usually grab at him like that. But he accepted an iced ring delicately, crunching it between his teeth, and then nosed hopefully at Amy for another.

She handed it to him without really looking. She was peering out of the doorway, wondering if the two mums had spotted him.

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