Chapter 35
‘I’m not going,’ said Jake as they pulled up at the school.
‘Yes, you are.’ Kim’s patience was nearing its end. ‘Out you get. I’ve got things to do.’
Jake threw her a mutinous glance, grabbed his bag, and slammed the door behind him.
‘You too, sweetie.’
Abbey’s frown showed her own reluctance to leave. ‘Don’t be late picking us up,’ she said as she climbed from the car.
Kim watched until the bell went and they trooped inside. Jean, standing at the classroom door, gave her a wave. Yesterday Jake had jumped the fence before school and walked all the way home.
A mere week into third term, and Kim’s new life was collapsing around her. The dingoes, that nobody had actually seen, were dividing the town into two rough camps. Old hippies and tree-changers, who’d come to Tingo as
