20. Truce

He saw Simon sitting at their table, the same table where they had hatched this wild plan.

‘That was brilliant,’ Brendan said whispering and putting on a smile that ripped across his whole face like a slit on a puppet’s face.

‘Did it bite him?’ Simon was eager to know the outcome.

He sat in front of him. ‘You bet it did! Didn’t you hear him scream?’

‘Of course I did. The whole school must have heard it. I was just thinking that maybe he just saw it and managed to get away.’

‘No way, Simon, it bit him. I just didn’t stick around for the chaos.’

‘What type of snake was it?’

‘I don’t know but I’m pretty sure it was poisonous.’ Brendan was still smiling with satisfaction now beginning to eat. ‘How did you think of a plan like that anyway?’ he asked Simon.

‘Well, when I left you yesterday…’

‘You mean ran away?’ he corrected him, fixing his eyebrows and mouth into a friendly frown.

‘Okay, okay ran away..,’ he admitted.

Brendan noticed that Simon was chewi
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