The Cloudwatch Club Stepping Up

Altostratus.

Cumulus.

Stratus.

Stratocumulus.

Cirrocumulus.

Stratocumulus.

Altostratus.

Fibratus.

-Cumulonimbus incus.

-Where?!

-There.

-It doesn't look anything like one.

-Oh.

A cumulonimbus incus looks like an anvil.

Does that look like an anvil, Dylan?

I don't even know what an anvil is.

-Where are you going?

-To get ready.

I heard there's always a fight in the first couple of weeks.

-Some total idiots.

-Do you know what they call them?

-Who?

-The kids you don't mess with at high school.

The kids-everyone-wants-to-be kids.

-The Wallees.

-The wallies?!

Wallees cos they hang out on this wall

and everyone dreads going past it.

-They call it the Wallee Walk.

-You worry too much.

What if I do something stupid tomorrow, Alfie?

What if everything's totally set in stone based on first impressions?

It's not as if WE'RE going to be Billy no mates, is it?

We're The Cloudwatch Club.

Forget first impressions. We're on our gazillionth.

You going to knock on for me at quarter past?

-Look up.

-Dream on.

Awww. Where's our little Dylan gone?

Who needs Daddy?

You're the man of the house now.

But loosen your tie a bit, yeah?

Don't want to look like a total geek, do you?

I'm running out of hair here.

Use mine then.

What?!

I want to look cool.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

-You're miles late.

-It's not cool to be early, man.

-What happened to your hair?

-My sister did it.

-It looks good, doesn't it?

-Why have you got that?

Going to my gramp's later to try and fix up that old bike my dad left.

-You don't look like you.

-I do. I just don't look like the old me.

There is a way for us not to worry about the cool kids, Alfie.

We have to BE the cool kids.

This is a new season and it's time for a transfer.

Yeah. This is it. Yeah.

-Where are you going?

-The wall. If we're Wallees,

-we won't have to do the Wallee Walk.

-We can't be late on our first day.

Alfie, the first day is the most important day to be late of all.

First impressions.

I'm going to class.

BELL RINGS

Er, hello?

What are you doing?

-Just hanging out.

-Are you new?

-Yeah? Well, you're supposed to be at registration.

-So what?

You got a motorbike?

I'm Maskell. I'm new too.

-New boy!

-Look at him.

-Do you know where I am?

-Uh?

-I'm trying to find the Willow building.

-I know where it is but I don't know where I am.

-Got a pen?

You go here and back round there.

Up the fire escape, cross that roof, swim that....

and there you are, Willow building.

THEY SNIGGER

I could knock them off that wall without even touching them.

I've got actual psycho-kinetic powers.

Once in the afternoon in, like, year five,

I turned the kettle on just by winking at the socket.

Watch.

HIGH-PITCHED WHIRRING

-I'm Alfie. Alfie Kinter.

-I'd nearly shifted them then!

-Sorry.

-What are you doing lurking?

-I wasn't lurking.

-I was just looking.

-What for?

The Magician's Nephew from The Chronicles Of Narnia.

-It's the only one I haven't read.

-I've read two.

-I've read four.

I've read all of them twice.

-What are you doing?

-I'm having these.

-That's stealing.

No, it ain't!

-Who's shouting?!

-It was him, the lurker.

-Alfie Minter.

-Kinter.

-He admits it.

-No, I don't!

-He's doing it again.

Alfie Minter, just pipe down. And stop lurking.

James!

-New boy!

-Yeah, new boy!

-Hey, tufty!

-No, wait.

-What?

-Dyl?

-Yeah?

I'm in.

Nice.

-How's it going?

-Worse than ever.

What are you doing?

It's my cool walk. Can't be cool without a cool walk.

Come on.

Get off there.

Hey! Off.

-Fractus.

-You what?

-That cloud, it's a fractus.

-It's like all broken-up and raggedy.

-How do you know that?

-We're The Cloudwatch Club.

-I don't think anyone's interested in...

We formed it last year. Before Dyl's dad went, he got himself

a whole new family, he built us this proper great cubby house.

He said that if we ever had a worry or anything,

we should go up there and it wouldn't seem quite so bad.

The sky's so ginormous that anything that gets you down

is just teeny by comparison.

You just need to look up

and dream on.

-What's that?

-Secret handshake.

Newbies.

Know where you are yet?

You lot Bookbods?

Bookbods!

What's he staring at?

James.

Jess Inglebrooke.

Oh, what sort of time do you call this, hey?

Registration is not optional.

It's not just come along when you feel like it,

just come along when you've got nothing better to do.

What've you got to say for yourselves?

Whatevs.

What did you just say?

Mrs Hardy, the librarian, has warned me about you.

I heard all about your big mouth and your lurking.

-What's all this lurking?

-Quiet, Minter.

-Kinter.

Detention. Thursday. After school.

Trust me, lad.

You carry on like this and I will be on your case

every day for the next five years. I will break you down.

Sit.

Could you drown in a cloud?

If you were skydiving and it was massive and mega cloudy,

then, yeah, probably.

-Where's this motor then?

-Still at my gramp's.

-He's going to bring it round next weekend though.

-Come up.

We're a bit old for Wendy houses.

-Yeah.

-It's not a Wendy house, it's a cubby house.

A man parachuted into a thunderstorm once

and got stuck in a cloud, spinning round for eight hours

like he was in a tumble dryer.

When he finally landed, he was 1,000 miles from where he lived.

Never even had the bus fare to get home.

-Where are you going?

-Doing my head in with all this cloud stuff.

Yeah, cloud ban.

No. If I want to talk about clouds, I will.

Yeah, 'course. Just not around Aidan.

-He's not very nice, Dyl.

-He's a Wallee.

Yeah? Well, I'm not.

You could be. Just try.

Trying to be cool is the most uncool thing ever.

I tried to do a cool walk, it looks like I've got a dead leg.

No matter how my hair's cut, the tufty's always there.

And I don't find detention fun. It sucks.

Starting school is just hard. Bound to be.

Trying to be something I'm not is making it a whole lot harder.

So what are you waiting for? Go on.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

I'm in.

I like it when Harry throws mud balls at Draco,

-when he's got the invisibility cloak on.

-Yeah, awesome.

-I like the shrunken heads. They're well funny.

-The shrunken heads?

-Yeah.

We're talking about the book, not the film.

-I've not read the book.

-What?!

Newbies.

Look who's joined the Bookbods. It's The Cloudburst Kids.

-It's The Cloudwatch Club.

-What is?

Ooh. Look at the big dirty sky.

-How fascinating(!)

-Off to your Wendy house to play with your toys.

It's a cubby house.

-How much do clouds weigh then?

-80 elephants on average.

-Big elephants or little ones?

-Big elephants for big clouds,

-little elephants for little clouds.

-Brilliant.

What are you doing?

James!

ALARM

Libraries are basically zoos for books. Books belong in the wild.

-That's rubbish.

-What would you know?

I bet the only book you've ever read was The Giant Jam Sandwich.

No, no. Dyl reads.

Go on then. What HAVE you read?

I don't mean at school that you've had to read.

-Name one book you've read out of choice.

-I read this Doctor Who one.

Before you say anything, it wasn't the magazine.

It was a proper hardback that came out at Christmas. So there.

At Christmas? That's not a book, Dylan. That's an annual.

I've got this one about motorbikes. That's not an annual.

Does it have diagrams and arrows?

It's not an annual cos it's a manual.

-Proper books aren't just full of pictures.

-I like pictures.

Dylan! On Saturday, we're all going to the proper library in town.

I'm going to try and finish fixing up my bike.

They've got games and films and everything.

Will James still be able to nick books there?

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Morning.

Mrs Hardy has informed me that several books have been stolen

from the library.

If anyone has any information about this,

they need to see a member of staff immediately.

Right.

What are you going to do?

I've never been near the library in my life.

Well, information has come to Mrs Hardy's notice

that suggests otherwise.

-From who?

-I find these behind that wall you always sitting on.

-Well, they're not mine.

-Detention is like water off a duck's back to you.

Well, you step one millimetre out of line now this term

and you are suspended on the spot. Do you hear me?

So, none of you know nothing?

Best not be lying.

No-one would set you up, Aid. No one's that mad.

Will you stop going on for one minute?!

I'm trying to think.

-It was you.

-No, no. Aid, mate, it wasn't Alfie.

-Thought you didn't know nothing?

-I don't.

Even I wasn't in detention on my first week.

You think you can just take my place, don't you?

-Sit on my wall and make everyone look up at the sky.

-So what?

Alfie's not scared of you.

Is that right? Tomorrow.

After school. On the field.

-Me and you.

-Aidan, you can't.

-Why not?

-You'll get suspended.

-You and him then.

-Me?!

-You want to hang around with us, don't you?

You need to get your head out of the clouds.

Life's lived down here, mate. On the ground.

James, did you say it was Aidan?

-You've got to tell the truth, mate.

-As if!

If he wasn't about to get suspended, he'd just bash us all up.

-Trust me. This is perfect.

-Not for me. I ain't doing it.

'Course you are.

This time next week, it's going to be us on that wall.

GENERAL CHATTER

-I can't believe you went without me!

-You destroyed the cubby.

This is all your fault for hanging out with total idiots.

-What?! It's yours for the same reason.

-Shut up.

-Make me then.

-I will.

-Go on.

-After school. On the field.

-I'll be there.

BELL RINGS

SHOUTING

He can't wear that!

-You can do it!

-Do it.

-Get him now.

All you had to do was keep your head down and hang out at the wall.

I don't want to hang out at the wall.

-All you had to do was read an actual book.

-I don't like reading books.

-I like razzing around on motorbikes.

-He doesn't razz around on them.

-It doesn't work.

-You're such a little kid.

-Just cos your dad's gone,

-you don't have to replace him

-Stop going on about my dad!

-Well, that's what this has all been about, hasn't it?

-No.

-Yes, it has.

My dad's gone so I've got to wear trainers

and I've got to carry a stupid helmet for a bike I won't ever ride.

My dad's gone so I've got to be a freak.

Aaarghhhh!

Aaarghhhh!

SHOUTING

-Hit him.

-Smack him.

-Fight then.

-I think...

-What?!

-Cumulonimbus incus.

-Where?

-There.

-Go on.

-Hit him.

-Is it...?

Single cell and everything.

Yeah.

Come on. Let's go.

Do you think they'll have all The Chronicles Of Narnia?

They do. I've been.

Hold on.

Dyl?

-You all right, mate?

-Maskell.

-All right.

What are you doing?

Still trying to fix this. What about you?

-Going down the proper library for a bit.

-Right.

-Yeah. See you around then.

-Yeah.

-Should I knock on for you on Monday?

-'Course.

-Quarter past. On the dot.

-Yeah.

Alfie!

Look up, dream on.

Give it a rev.

Tell you what, I'll race you to the library.

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