The Forbidden Window (Hiding from Seagulls Book 2), Page 2

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  The room was silent except for the pages of Simon's book turning. He sat up at the teacher's desk, all smug and happy with himself. Despite Miss Arthur assuring him, he wasn't supervising Simon acted as though he was. Supervising a five-minute detention for one person because he was the snitch and he supervised.

  "Bet you are happy with yourself there Simon. Keeping me out the exam room until I was too late," Rob had not felt this angry in a long time. He had missed a shot at an exam he had studied quite hard for and it was all down to the Snitch.

  "Do you want to end up on report?"

  "Oh I don't care Simon; I'm always on report anyway."

  "That's it," Simon waved his pen in the air "I am reporting this to Miss Arthur."

  Now Rob was overcome with rage.

  "Will you Simon. Oh please don't report me to Miss Arthur," he said and began sarcastically blowing kisses.

  "That's it. I am reporting you now."

  "You have always been the same Simon. Even the Duchess saw that."

  Rob put his hand over his mouth and felt a sudden sense of shock.

  Then there was an unnerving silence

  "Shall we head home"? Simon offered breaking the silence in the room with a quivering voice.

  Rob had just mentioned the Duchess from Tommy's story and something was somehow unlocked. He did not just remember it as a story, he remembered the bus journey and so, he suspected did Simon.

  "Yeah," Rob offered, Yeah that would probably be the best."

  As they walked out to the cloakroom, the walls had changed. The cloakroom had walls of stone. They found themselves in the room without doors. Simon seemed to understand what had happened right away.

  "No," he cried "not this again!"