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ОглавлениеPERTH, AUSTRALIA. WEDNESDAY, 07:10
“Sasha! SASHA! Come upstairs now!”
“Mum? What’s wrong?!”
“Nothing’s wrong! Look at this!”
Her mother shows her the article in The Daily.
“No way!”
She reads it three times.
Her father walks out of the bathroom.
“What’s going on out here?”
“Dad, read this …”
“I didn’t know that you sent it to the papers.”
“I didn’t.”
“So how did it get there?”
“I don’t know. But it’s there. Read it! How awesome is that!”
Thrilled that her idea has gained wings, she jumps onto her parents’ bed and talks and talks until her father says he can’t handle the noise any longer and goes back into the bathroom.
Sasha and her mother carry on:
“You must phone them and tell them it was your idea.”
“Not a chance.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t want to. It’s not about me.”
Sasha looks at the clock and sees the time.
“Muuumm … I’m gonna be late for school!”
She runs to her room and dresses in four minutes flat, then spends the next five minutes trying to find her second shoe. She looks in her wardrobe (three times), under the bed (twice), in the laundry, in the sitting room, where eventually she finds it under the couch. Pulling it on, she scrambles up and starts looking around.
“Has anybody seen my USB?!”
She frantically packs her books into her bag, finds her USB still plugged into the computer, pulls it out and races to the car. Her Dad is there waiting, ignition on.
They are caught by every traffic light on the drive to school.
By the time she makes it to class, her stomach is in knots.
None of her friends has seen the article. But by lunchtime it is all they are talking about. Sasha’s head is reeling with the excitement of it all.
This can work. This can work. This can work.
