Fake ID (11 page)

What should I put on the e-dress? Firmly, I type in mygran.com.

Then I look at the lower-case letters, which almost spell migrant or migraine and imagine it going to some multicultural or headache site. So I hit DELETE.

To Gran? Or leave it blank?

What will I call the message? FAQs? How about LQs? Late questions.

No, I'll call it Unanswered Questions.

Hi Gran,

I know you won't get this where you are, but …I need to ask you stuff. When you helped Tibor, did you think you were breaking a law or were you just helping a friend? Did you ever regret what you did? Were you sorry or was it OK at the time?

If you were here now, and you were fifteen, would you break a law you didn't agree with, just to help a friend?

Does wartime make such a big difference. Or are you still the same person inside?

How much of you is in me? How much of you is in Mum? Do we have some of the same genes even if we are different?

Is it better to stay and do what you can or is it better to run away? If you leave, are you going somewhere or are you just running away?

I stopped typing. The keyboard was full of letters but it was up to me to make them fit together.

Should I hit SEND?

It would probably bounce straight back.

Then I had another idea. I'll cc it to Mum. She would get a copy even if Gran didn't. And Mum'd have time to think before we next met. She could pretend she never got it if she didn't want to answer.

At the weekend, I gave Luke the tie. It wasn't quite ‘Puss the Wonder Cat', but it did look sort of cat burglar-ish. The Reject Shop had some on special. So I drew some bugs on it. Could be virus.

‘Luke, what happens if you send a message to two people and the e-dress is wrong for the first one and it bounces? Does the second message get through?'

‘Yeah,' says Luke. ‘Usually.'

‘You know when you asked me about whether I'd break a law for you?' said Luke.

‘Yeah.'

‘I'd do it for you… I'd drive you,
and
Bark, to the vet as long as you didn't call me Luke Warm.'

 

About the Author

Hazel Edwards is the author's real name: not a fake I.D.  Best known for the picture book ‘There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake', now a film shown at the Sydney Opera House in 2012 , Hazel writes fiction and fact for all ages.

Co written' f2m: the boy within' and ‘Outback Ferals' are amongst her other Y.A. novels. With her son, she co-wrote ‘Cycling Solo: Ireland to Istanbul'.

Hot air ballooning, an Antarctic expedition and belly dancing are part of the participant observation research Hazel has tried. The hockey facts in ‘Fake ID' are based on her family's experiences. Her non-boring history workshops have indicated interest in family history mysteries across generations.

Hazel's adult non-fiction includes ‘Authorpreneurship;The Business of Creativity' , ‘Writing a Non Boring Family History' and ‘Difficult Personalities'.

A reading ambassador, mentor for youth and with two grandsons for whom she writes a book each birthday, Hazel offers mentoring via web chats.

Many of her e-books are available via her online bookstore.

http://www.hazeledwards.com/shop
and discussion notes are offered.

* A Fake I.D. film script exists but has not been produced, yet.