Nathan Reed – Flying Lessons (страница 2)
Hiding behind the goblins’ burger stall, she peered into the spikes of the broom. She turned it upside down and round and round. She pressed her fingers along the handle and tweaked the twigs. It certainly didn’t look as if it could fly. It was just a plain old-fashioned broomstick.
“But,” said a voice inside her head that sounded very much like Miss Strega, “flying is not as easy as it looks. Even one lesson can make all the difference.”
“That’s silly,” said Jessica, “brooms can’t fly. They can’t drag people around the place.”
At that moment, the ghost came around the corner with the gorilla. “There she is!” she shouted. “That little witch is a troublemaker.”
“Oh dear,” muttered Jessica, “I wish I was back home.”
The words were hardly out of her mouth when the broom began to buck like a rodeo horse. It took off at a gallop, with Jessica hanging on to the handle. It soared up over the bandstand, over the duck pond and the tennis court.
“Stop!” she yelled, but the broom took no notice. It hurtled on, faster and faster, heading straight for the houses at the top of the hill.
“Help!” she yelled as it skimmed over tree tops and rushed past chimney pots with only inches to spare. “Help!”
At the corner of Jessica’s street, the broom stopped sharply. The twigs twitched to the right and left, like a dog listening for a signal. Jessica clung on grimly, hanging motionless above the orange glow of the streetlamp. She closed her eyes.
Then the broom started to move forward again. She could feel it dropping down gently and gliding up the street between the houses like a small plane approaching a runway.
Bump, bump, bump.
Jessica opened her eyes. She had landed on her bottom on the grass in her front garden.
“Bother,” she said, and looked at the broom lying beside her. “Flying Lessons are extra.”
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