Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5 'No way! It happened again?' Wogan said, chasing after Charlie as Charlie stormed off ahead of him across the playground. 'Yes,' said Charlie glumly. 'While you were on your way to Ms Fyre? You turned into a pigeon?' 'Yes!' said Charlie, frustration creeping into his voice. 'Hmm,' said Flora. 'Oh, don't you start hmming again. I had enough of that last time.' 'Well, one way or another, we need to get to the bottom of it.' 'No, what we really need to do is work out how to stop my parents from murdering me when they see this punishment letter.' Charlie pulled the letter out of

第五章没门！又发生了？”沃根一边说，一边追着查理，查理在他前面冲出操场。 “是的，”查理闷闷不乐地说。 “在你去找费尔女士的路上？” 你变成了一只鸽子？“是的!查理说，他的声音里带着挫败感。 “嗯，”弗洛拉说。"哦，你可别又哼起来了。 上次我受够了。“好吧，不管怎样，我们得弄清真相。”“不，我们真正需要做的是想办法阻止我父母看到这封惩罚信后杀了我。”查理把信抽出来

his pocket. 'Listen to what it says: "Disobedience, lying, evasiveness and all manner of general misdemeanours." What am I supposed to do about all that? I'm dead.' 'Good question,' said Wogan, sounding full of action. 'OK, firstly, who is Miss Demeanours? Is she

他的口袋里。“听听上面是怎么说的：‘不服从、撒谎、逃避以及各种各样的轻罪。’” 我该怎么做呢？ 我已经死了。“问得好。”沃根说，语气里充满了干劲。 “好吧，首先，谁是举止小姐？” 她是

a new teacher? And General Miss Demeanours? Why is the army involved? We need to know.' Mohsen looked at Charlie and rolled his eyes. Charlie smiled for the first time in quite a while. The four were quiet for a moment, each lost in thought, until Flora broke the silence. 'It's funny that it happened …' Flora paused carefully. 'You know, when you were by yourself. Again,' she added. 'It's just, you know, a bit strange.' Charlie narrowed his eyes. 'What do you mean "funny"? Strange how?' Mohsen and Wogan held their breath. 'It's just that, well, nobody else has actually seen it happen yet,' Flora said slowly and gently. 'I knew it!' Charlie shouted. 'You don't believe me! You think I'm lying!' 'I don't think you're lying!' Flora protested. 'You do! I can't believe, after everything that's happened, one of my best friends thinks I'm making it all up.' 'I don't!' 'Then what do you think?' 'Well, have you considered that perhaps you just think it's happening? Maybe your brain is tricking you? The mind is a funny thing and I know you

新老师？那么举止小姐将军呢？ 为什么军队要参与进来？我们需要知道。”莫森看着查理，翻了个白眼。 很长一段时间以来，查理第一次笑了。 四个人沉默了一会儿，每个人都陷入了沉思，直到弗洛拉打破了沉默。 “这事发生了，真有趣……”弗洛拉小心翼翼地停顿了一下。 “你知道，当你一个人的时候。 又来了，”她补充道。“就是，你知道，有点奇怪。”查理眯起眼睛。 “你说‘好笑’是什么意思？” 奇怪的如何?”莫森和沃根屏住了呼吸。 “只是，嗯，还没有人真正看到它发生过。”弗洛拉缓慢而温柔地说。 “我就知道！”查理喊道。 “你不相信我！”你认为我在撒谎！“我不认为你在说谎！”植物抗议道。 “你!真不敢相信，在发生了这么多事之后，我的一个好朋友还认为这一切都是我编的。“我不知道！””“那你怎么想？“好吧，你有没有想过，也许你只是觉得这是真的？” 也许你的大脑在欺骗你？ 思想是一个有趣的东西，我知道你

believe you changed into a spider and a pigeon but maybe it didn't… actually… happen?' Silence hit the four of them again. Charlie looked furious. Flora looked like she'd just broken the news to her pet hamster, Rollo, who was two years old, that hamsters usually only live for two years. Mohsen and Wogan looked terrified. 'Well, you two are being very quiet. What do you think? Do you believe me?' Charlie glared at Mohsen and Wogan. Mohsen and Wogan sort of muttered and shrugged. They looked nervously at the ground. Charlie rounded on them, his face red. 'Well, that's just great. Fantastic. Not one of my so-called best friends believes me. Well, you can all just be friends without me.' And with that Charlie stormed off to the other side of the playground. He sat on an empty bench fuming silently. And as he sat there, watching a football game between some Year Twos, his anger slowly turned into something much, much worse. Loneliness.

我相信你变成了一只蜘蛛和一只鸽子，但也许这并没有……实际上……发生过？”他们四个人又沉默了。 查理看起来很生气。弗洛拉看起来像是刚刚把这个消息告诉了她两岁的宠物仓鼠罗洛，仓鼠通常只能活两年。 莫森和沃根看上去吓坏了。 “好吧，你们两个都很安静。 你觉得呢？你相信我吗？”查理怒视着莫森和沃根。 莫森和沃根喃喃自语，耸耸肩。 他们紧张地看着地面。 查理转过身来，脸涨得通红。 “嗯，那太好了。太棒了。 我所谓的好朋友都不相信我。 好吧，没有我，你们都可以做朋友。”说完，查理气冲冲地走到操场的另一边。 他坐在一张空板凳上，默默地发着气。 当他坐在那里，看着一场两年级学生之间的足球比赛时，他的愤怒慢慢地变成了更糟糕的事情。 孤独。

His stomach felt hollow and yet at the same time like it was full of squirming worms. His head was throbbing and his face was hot and his eyes were prickling with tears again. He wanted to get a hug from his mum or play Pokémon with Mohsen or football with Flora or wrestle with Wogan or see SmoothMove again or anything, anything to make this awful feeling disappear.

他觉得肚子是空的，但同时又充满了蠕动的蠕虫。 他的头隐隐作痛，脸发烫，眼睛又被泪水刺痛了。 他想要得到妈妈的拥抱，想要和莫森玩波克萨蒙，想要和弗洛拉踢足球，想要和沃根摔跤，想要再看一次《SmoothMove》，想要任何能让这种可怕的感觉消失的东西。