![]() It washed over him so easily now, and for the time being he was still able to hold it in check. Jimmy closed his eyes for a fraction of a second to feel inside himself for that powerful sensation. ![]() “Jimmy!” he shouted, the branch dipping drastically under his weight. He was dangling from a tree trying not to fall in the water below him. In fact, Felix was literally hanging out. “It was Yannick!”Ī few days later Jimmy and Felix were hanging out at the lake. With that, he burst out laughing – and so did Jimmy. “Jimmy, don’t worry,” Felix replied eventually. I don’t feel human at all because I don’t feel anything.”įelix was silent for a second. “Felix,” he muttered, “sometimes, just before I go to sleep, I feel like my programming takes me over completely. Then Jimmy spoke again, quieter than ever, as if he was talking to himself. They both turned over in a fresh attempt to get some sleep. “Yeah, and don’t tell your mum any of your crazy theories or she won’t let us go out again.” How could he take his worries seriously when Felix was there to make light of them? Jimmy huffed a little to disguise the fact that he was about to laugh. “Oh, all the chairs,” Felix repeated sarcastically. “He could have done it to all the chairs.” “How did this invisible man know you were going to sit in that particular chair?” How does the leg of a metal chair snap, unless somebody has weakened it?” It told him over and over that when that many umbrellas, with sharpened points, all come within a centimetre of your head, it’s more than a coincidence. But there was a voice in his head that blared out like a trumpet. There was no rational way to explain his suspicion. “You mean,” he started, “there was some invisible man, sent by Miss Bennett, who sharpened the ends of the umbrellas then knocked them over, aiming for you?” He pulled a face that stretched one of his nostrils almost up to his eye. As if something was knocking them over deliberately.”įelix stared at Jimmy, trying to make out whether his friend was serious. “What noise?” asked Felix, completely tangled up in his bed sheets. “And did you hear the noise just before each of them fell?” “Yeah,” Felix replied, the moonlight catching the enthusiasm in his eye, “but you were so quick, you dodged out the way like, like…” he wriggled about in his bed, acting out some of Jimmy’s moves. “I mean, don’t you think it was a bit, kind of, funny that they all broke? And that the ends were all so sharp? That was really dangerous.” “The thing is, though, I don’t think I believe it either.” The manager couldn’t believe it when he saw that all of his umbrellas had broken!” “Felix,” he whispered hesitantly, “do you think that was really an accident in the village today?” He smiled and closed his eyes, but opened them again almost straightaway. I dunno.” Jimmy turned on to his side to face his friend. “Oh,” Jimmy answered, distracted from his thoughts. “Do you think Chris will be back soon?” Felix asked. ![]() In one, Yannick’s bulk heaved up and down to the rhythm of his snoring. On the other side of the room were another two beds. ![]() The other room was just for Yannick’s mother. Jimmy and Felix were in neighbouring beds in one of the two upstairs bedrooms of the farmhouse. The curtains at the window weren’t doing a great job of keeping out the moonlight. “You still awake?” came a whisper through the darkness. ![]()
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