The Time Bunker by Mac Ramsay

Author:Mac Ramsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2022-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

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After dinner, I stayed at the table and chatted to Mum for a little while. This was tactical – if I had rushed to my room as soon as the last fork full of food was in my mouth, she would have stopped me and said something about me spending too much time in my room. If I stayed and talked to her for a little while, she would let me go afterwards with no questions asked. I knew exactly how Mum worked.

I asked her, “Mum, who was Hans Kammler?”

“Heinz who?” she replied, “Did he invent tomato ketchup?”

I pretended to laugh at her attempt at humour, but it just sounded sarcastic.

“Hans Kammler,” I repeated, emphasising his name this time.

“Not a clue. Why?”

I lied, “Just a guy Mr Truman spoke to us about in History. I think he was a German.” I remembered the last part from Milburn’s journal.

She just shrugged and didn’t question me any further.

“Mum.”

“Yes?”

“What was the Philadelphia Experiment?”

She was still in one of her ‘funny’ moods. “I’m not sure – an experiment to see which soft cheese tastes the best?”

For a schoolteacher, Mum seemed to know very little, but she was being quite witty.

“Ha-ha,” I said with obvious sarcasm this time.

“Why all the questions Noel? Is there something you want to talk to me about?” She was beginning to smell a rat. I was just about to respond with a lie when she continued, “Since when have you ever taken an interest in history anyway? I thought you said it was boring.”

“I just watched a documentary on my iPad and it was really good,” I lied, “It was about nuclear wars.”

“Nuclear wars?” She uncrossed her legs then recrossed them the other way around, placing her elbow on her knee and her chin on her fist. “You’re acting very strange Noel. What’s with all this stuff about nuclear wars all of a sudden? I really don’t think watching those kinds of documentaries is doing you any good.” She paused and looked at me, clearly concerned, “Is everything okay?”

I was giving the acting performance of my life. I smiled, “Yeah fine! I’m going to go do some of my holiday homework.” This was perhaps a step too far. Mum looked very suspicious but dismissed me and I walked as calmly as I could to my room, trying to hide my excitement. To my relief, she didn’t follow.

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