Touch the Sky (Young Underground #8) by Elmer Robert

Author:Elmer, Robert [Elmer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Robert Elmer
Published: 2012-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

“Are you kids all ready?” asked Uncle Morten later that night. He jogged in place in the Andersen kitchen, next to where Peter and Elise were doing the dinner dishes while Tiger played with his shoelaces. “Because Lisbeth and I are leaving on this grand bike voyage tomorrow morning whether you’re coming or not.”

“We’re ready,” Henrik told him, chuckling. He watched the twins from the kitchen table, where he had been parked since he and his mother had arrived after dinner. “But now that crazy Elise is coming, she’ll have to get ready, too.”

“I’m ready,” she countered. “I don’t take as long as you boys.”

“Ha!” Peter laughed. “We’re ready already. We’ve been ready for the last couple of days.”

Mr. Andersen chuckled as he walked into the kitchen. “There’s still time to change your mind, Morten. You and Lisbeth are brave to volunteer.”

“Brave?” Uncle Morten gave his brother a playful push with his shoulder. “I was going to take a couple of days off anyway to take the train to the big get-together. And now since Elise is coming along, both Lisbeth and I are saving the train ticket money. It’s a double savings.”

“Oh, so that’s it.” Peter’s father laughed once more. “You’re going because you think you’ll save money. Well, I know the kids appreciate it. If I could take the time off, I would consider going with you, too.”

Peter looked at his father with disbelief. “You would?”

“Why does that surprise you? I’ve been on a bicycle before, you know.”

“If you’ve been on a bike, brother,” put in Uncle Morten, “your kids have never seen you.”

“Morten,” said Lisbeth from the living room. “You sound like you’re teasing your poor brother again.”

Uncle Morten only grinned, while Peter’s father quietly stuffed something into Henrik’s shirt pocket.

“Mr. Andersen!” objected Henrik.

“Now, I’m giving it to you because I know you’ll spend it only on necessary things like ice cream and soda.”

“But...” Henrik stammered.

Peter could tell from the color of the paper that it was a fifty-kroner bill. He did some quick math. That’s enough for 150 ice cream cones!

“No buts,” insisted Mr. Andersen. “I want you kids to have fun on this trip. Now, you remember the schedule?”

“We know the schedule,” answered Uncle Morten. “We’ve talked it through ten times.”

Peter’s father nodded and continued. “Okay, I just want to make sure I know you know. You leave tomorrow morning, Thursday, and then we’ll take the train over and meet you the following week at Harald and Hanne’s place on the coast. You know where it is?”

Uncle Morten nodded patiently and pointed his thumb at Elise. “Just south of Ho Village. These two know the way.”

“Well,” Elise put in, “it has been a couple of years since Peter and I were there.”

Peter finished scrubbing his last dish and drifted off to the window while everyone else kept talking and planning. Not that he wasn’t as excited as the others about the bike trip—maybe even more. But something else kept bothering him. He looked down at the street, searching again for the black car that he had been trying to find all week.

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