The Wizard In My Shed by Simon Farnaby

Author:Simon Farnaby
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444954609
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Published: 2020-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

With Merdyn and Rose arguing outside, let us concentrate for a moment on Kris. Merdyn had snuck him the promised love potion in the car on the way home and, with his mum making tea in the kitchen, this was Kris’s chance to use it.

Suzy now handed cups of tea to the supporting police officers and nodded to Kris to pour out the rest. “Those two are for Sergeant Murray and your friend, Shakia,” she said, pointing at two red mugs near the kettle.

“Four and a half sugars for me,” Sergeant Murray said.

Kris put four and a half sugars in the sergeant’s tea, and half a sugar in Shakia’s. He knew that she took half a sugar from the countless cups of tea he’d made for her at work. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out the little bottle that Merdyn had given him, trying to remember the warlock’s strict instructions. Just one drop, Merdyn had said. And be careful that you are the first person she sees after she drinks it.

Shakia was busy drying her phone on a radiator on the other side of the kitchen. This was his chance! Kris opened the potion bottle and tipped it towards the mug. But instead of just one drop, the entire bottle emptied into the mug in one go.

“Oh sugar!” Kris said.

As bad luck would have it, Sergeant Murray swept in behind him at that precise moment and snatched up one of the mugs. “Yes, four and a half. This mine?” he said.

Kris looked at the red mug still sitting on the side. Now in a total panic, he couldn’t remember which one had four and a half sugars in, and which one contained a full bottle of love potion.

“This must be mine then,” said Shakia, and she picked up the remaining mug and sipped from it. Kris made sure he stood right in front of her as she did so, just in case.

“Wow,” she said, making a face. “How many sugars are in here?”

Kris started to sweat. Had he given her the wrong mug? Because in that case …

Sergeant Murray took a long slurp of his tea. “Oh dear,” he said. “I need more sugar in my …”

His sentence trailed off. For at that moment, his eyes had fallen upon …

Rose and Kris’s mum.

Now, I don’t know whether you have ever had the fortune – or misfortune, some would say – to fall in love. But as soon as Sergeant Murray looked at Suzy, everything went into slow motion. (Or it seemed that way anyway!) Soft rock played in his head as she handed the tea out to the other officers. If you’d looked into his eyes at that moment, you would have seen a firework display in the shape of pink love-hearts going off in each iris. Up until this point in his life, Sergeant Murray had been married to the police force. Now, for the first time ever, he was completely in love with another human being.

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