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Back The Chalet Save as PDF
Chapters (75)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise for The Chalet
  3. Dedication
  4. PART ONE
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  26. PART TWO
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  35. PART THREE
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  70. Epilogue
  71. Acknowledgements
  72. Keep Reading …
  73. Prologue
  74. About the Author
  75. About the Publisher

After I washed up I went back into our room and got dressed. My clothes from the day before were still on the floor so I put those back on. Then I went into the living room and watched TV, but the programmes were not very interesting and there were no cartoons. Sometimes I was not allowed to watch TV because Mama had a headache and she would say the TV was too noisy.

I watched for ages. I was hungry again. Mama was still not back. I had some more Weetabix and watched some more TV. And then some more. Then there was no more milk left so I climbed up on a chair again and put water from the tap on the Weetabix instead. Even with extra sugar, they weren’t very nice but I ate them anyway because I was very hungry.

Then it was dark, so I changed into my nightie and got back into bed.

Mama still wasn’t back. Even with the light on and Teddy with me, I was scared.

My tummy was rumbling when I woke up. Mama still wasn’t there. I called out and checked all the rooms but there was no reply.

The Weetabix box was on the table, but it was empty. I opened the fridge and saw a box of cheese triangles. Normally I would have that on some bread, but Mama would spread it because I was not allowed to touch the knives. But I was very hungry now, so I thought that as long as I was really careful maybe this time she wouldn’t mind too much. I opened the box where she kept the bread but there was only the end bit, the crust. It was hard but there was nothing else in there. I took a knife from the drawer really, really carefully and spread one triangle cheese onto it. I was not allowed to spread more than one because that would be wasteful and money didn’t grow on trees, Mama was always saying. I ate the bread and the cheese triangle and it was nice even though the bread was hard but I was still hungry afterwards. So I peeled the wrappers off the other two cheese triangles and ate them without any bread or anything. I was definitely not allowed to do that but I thought maybe Mama wouldn’t mind this time.

‘Mama!’ I shouted as loud as I could. ‘Mama!’ But she wasn’t there.

I put the TV on again and sat on the sofa, cuddling Teddy.