The Moonlight Dreamers by Siobhan Curham

Author:Siobhan Curham [Curham, Siobhan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406369687
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2016-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

From: [email protected]

To:[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Date: Sunday 1st November 19:05

Subject: Next meeting

Dear Moonlight Dreamers,

I have found a venue for our next meeting. Meet me at the corner of Hanbury Street and Wilkes Street at 7pm on Tuesday. Dress warmly and please bring something moon-related.

Best wishes,

Amber

Chapter Twenty-four

Sky raced up Brick Lane, checking the time on her phone. It was almost ten past seven. She was late, and it was all Rose’s fault. She’d assumed Rose would be coming home straight from school and they’d go to the meeting together. But Sky had waited as long as she could and there’d been no sign of her. She should have known this would happen. Rose was probably taking advantage of the fact that Liam and Savannah were away and had gone out partying with her friends.

Liam had taken Savannah to a Buddhist monastery for an overnight retreat in a bid to stop her having a complete nervous breakdown. OK, he hadn’t exactly said that. He’d said it was because Savannah was “interested in finding out more about him and his life”, but Sky knew the truth. Ever since the story about Savannah had broken last week she’d bounced like an emotional pinball from upset to super nice (to Sky at least) to raging. Sky had heard her yelling at Rose the night before about coming home late. “Who the hell do you think you are, treating this place like a hotel?” she’d screamed. Sky hadn’t heard Rose’s reply, but the whole road had probably heard her bedroom door slam.

Sky turned into Hanbury Street. A group of people was clustered around one of the doorways. “This is where Jack the Ripper murdered his first victim,” she heard one of them – obviously some kind of tour guide – say. Sky shivered. The cafés and clothes shops had closed for the night, and a thin mist hung in the cold air. It was easy to picture how it had been back in the days when Jack the Ripper had prowled these streets, looking for victims. Sky looked up the road to see if there was any sign of Amber and Maali: Google Maps had said that Wilkes Street was somewhere on the left. And then she spotted them, standing beneath an old-fashioned lamp post. Amber was wearing a long men’s overcoat that almost came down to her ankles. Maali was in a pretty cape-style coat with a huge pink scarf wrapped round and round her neck.

“Hey! Sorry I’m late,” Sky gasped as she ran up to them.

“That’s OK,” Amber said briskly.

“Where’s Rose?” Maali asked, looking around, slightly disappointed.

“I don’t think she’s coming.” Sky looked at Amber apologetically. “Sorry.” The truth was, she wasn’t sorry at all. The meeting would be way more relaxed without Rose there.

“She is,” Amber said. “She texted me earlier to say she’d be a bit late coming back from work experience.”

Sky felt a weird twinge of hurt that Rose had texted Amber and not her, before reminding herself that she really didn’t care.

“OK, then, let’s go up,” Amber said, turning onto Wilkes Street.

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