Читать книгу What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible - Ross Welford, Ross Welford - Страница 10

I’m going to tell you how I got to be invisible, and discovered a whole load of other stuff as well.

But if I’m going to do that, you need a bit of what my teacher Mr Parker calls ‘backstory’. The stuff that led up to me being invisible.

Stick around for a couple of chapters. I’ll keep it brief, and then we’ll be back in the garage, with me being invisible.

However, the first thing I’d better do before I continue is to warn you: I am not a ‘rebel’.

I only say this in case you’re hoping I’m going to be one of those daredevil kids who is always getting into trouble and being ‘sassy’ to grown-ups.

That is, unless you count becoming invisible as getting into trouble.

As for the time I swore at Mrs Abercrombie: that was an accident, as I have said a thousand times. I had meant to call her a ‘witch’ – which, I admit, is rude enough in itself, but not as rude as the word I used by mistake that rhymes with it. It got me into a LOT of trouble with Gram. To this day, Mrs Abercrombie thinks I’m a very rude girl even though it was more than three years ago and I wrote her a letter of apology on Gram’s best notepaper.

(I know she’s still angry because her dog Geoffrey always snarls at me. Geoffrey snarls at everyone, but Mrs Abercrombie always says, ‘Stop it, Geoffrey’ – except when he snarls at me.)

Anyway, usually I just sit quietly at the back at school, minding my own business, getting on with my stuff – la-la-la, don’t-bother-me-and-I-won’t-bother-you kind of thing.

But you know what grown-ups say, in that way they have that’s designed to make them seem clever, ‘Ah, you see – it’s always the quiet ones, isn’t it?’

That’s me. A ‘quiet one’. So quiet that I’m almost invisible.

Which, come to think of it, is quite funny.