The Vanishing of Class 3B by Jackie Kabler EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jackie Kabler
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Day 1: Friday, 9.45 a.m.
It’s sunny the day the children vanish. It’s been sunny for a week,
one of those warm, dry spells you don’t really expect in early April in the
Cotswolds. The minibus is black, a sixteen-seater Mercedes with reclining
leather seats, tinted windows and air conditioning; far too fancy, some
might say, to take a group of over-excited seven- and eight-year-olds on a
school day trip. Some might say, elsewhere, but nobody would say it here,
because this is Littleford Primary, and here they do things differently. This
bus hasn’t been hired for the day, for a start; the school recently bought it,
brand new, at a cost of over £70,000. Fundraising isn’t an issue at
Littleford. Not every parent is wealthy, but those with cash to spare are
more than generous, and Reynold Lyon, who’s leaning against the
playground wall, pretending to be engrossed in a phone call, is probably the
wealthiest and most generous of them all. Even today, off work and doing
the school run, he’s dressed head to toe in designer sportswear, classic black
aviators hiding his tired eyes. His most recent donation of £30,000 paid for
nearly half of the new minibus, but unfortunately even the fanciest of buses
isn’t immune from mechanical problems.
‘Damn. There’s a bloody red warning light!’
Year 2 teacher Erica Lindsay had spluttered the words and then
immediately clapped her hand over her mouth, looking around guiltily to
check if any of the children were within earshot. This had been forty-five
minutes ago, Erica hopping into the driver’s seat to start the engine while
the three other staff members accompanying Class 3B on their day out
attempted to round up their charges.
‘What? Are you serious?’
Her teaching assistant, Dominic Moore, scurried over, peered at the
dashboard and groaned.
‘I’m no expert, but that’s the coolant warning. That might mean a leak.
How the hell did that happen?’
He swore softly under his breath, like Erica, glancing around as he did
so. Reynold, who’d been listening with mild amusement, glad of the
distraction, smiled to himself. He didn’t mind swearing at all, but there was
a little cluster of other parents in the playground waiting to wave their
offspring goodbye, and he, like the teachers, knew not all of them would be
as tolerant. He wondered, briefly, if he should go and offer to help, to see if
he could work out what the problem with the bus was, and then
immediately decided against it. He might have three expensive motors
parked in the driveway of his home just down the road, but he really didn’t
have a clue about engines. He had people to worry about that sort of thing
for him. He had people to worry about almost everything for him.
Almost.
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