‘Us noughts and you Crosses.’ I shook my head. ‘It makes it sound like … like you’re in one place and I’m in another, with a huge, great wall between us.’ Callum looked out across the sea. ‘Maybe we are in diff erent places …’ ‘No, we aren’t. Not if we don’t want to be, we aren’t.’ I willed Callum to look at me. ‘I wish it was that simple.’ ‘It is.’
‘Maybe from where you’re sitting.’ At last Callum turned towards me, but his expression stemmed the words I was about to say. And then, just like that, his expression cleared and his easy smile was back.
1. Decide whether these statements are true or false. a. Callum doesn’t feel he needs to study anymore because he knows he will be at the top of his class.
b. Sephy is more mature than Callum. c. Noughts have more power than Crosses.
2. What themes has the author raised in this extract? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
