Coldkeep Castle: Part 5

By EIRLYS HUNTER

Later, he came into the sitting room and started again:

"Is that your dirty soccer gear all over the floor?"

"Yeah." Finn didn't look up. He was watching 'Cross Country Challenge', which involved people racing each other in lots of different ways. They were up to the abseiling-down-the-cliff part and Finn's favourite team, the reds, had just taken the lead.

"Put it in the washing machine. Don't leave it on the floor," growled Bill

"Okay."

"Do it now, Finn."

"When this programme's finished, okay?"

"No, it is not okay." Bill leaned past Finn and turned off the television. "I said do it now and I meant now. And you can take those enormous bloody feet off the table too."

"What?" but Bill had gone.

Finn kicked the cushions then put his feet back on the coffee table. Bill always put his feet up when he was watching telly - that's what the table was for. Finn switched the television back on, but in the next ad break he dumped his stuff in the washing machine. He would normally have filled up the machine with jeans and socks and turned it on, but Bill had just said 'put your stuff in the machine,' so that's exactly what Finn did.

Publisher: Scholastic

Price: $15.95

Age group: 11 plus years

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