Chapter 179- 197

In that night Christopher decides to go to London to live with his Mom because that´s the only realistic possibility in his eyes. But befor he leaves he goes over to Mrs Alexanders house to ask her if she can take care of Toby while he is away but when she tries to convince him to stay and talk to his Dad he just turns around and runs back to his house to get some stuff together (like his Dads bank card, for which he knows the PIN number) and run away for good. He decides to take a train to London because he knows how everything works in a train station due to a little toy train station he used to play with as a child. The problem is just that he doesn´t know where the train station is so he decides to go to his school first and then ask Siobhan or somebody else. But when he gets there he sees his Dads van and keeps on walking because he is scared that his Dad might find him. So he is forced to ask a stranger where the train station is and after he still doesn´t know where it is for sure he starts to walk in a spiral until he finally finds it.
At first Christopher is overcharged with all the stuff going on in this big station so he sits down somwhere and thinks about some math problem to calm himself down. When he looks up again he sees a policeman who asks him whether everything was alright. He tells him that he wants to take the train to London to go live with his Mom and when he says that he doesn´t have a ticket yet the policeman shows him where the ATM is so that he get some cash and buy himself a ticket. After the woman in the ticket office told him which way to go and the policeman told him to call his Mom if there was any problem he goes where he was directed to and enters the train to London

Chapter 157-179

It takes six days until he can go into his Dads room again to find more about the letters and their author. He reads five more letters which totally convince him that those letters were really written by his Mom and that she wasn´t dead but that she ran away to London with Mr Shear and that his Dad has lied to him all along. Chrristopher then starts to feel really sick and curles up in a ball and has another blackout. He has his memory back when his Dad comes into the house and calls out his name but he still doesn´t move so his Dad finds him like that curled up on the bed with all the letters around. When he sees that he starts to curse and desperately excuses himself for not telling him the truth and tells him how sorry he was and that he didn´t know how else to explain it to him. Christopher still doesn´t say anything like he is in trance so his Dad takes him into the bathroom to wash him because he had thrown up. There he promises Christopher that he would never lie to him again and confesses that he killed Wellington. That happened because he had an affair with Mrs Shears after Mr Shears left with his wife but he had the feeling that she cared more about the dog than for him and his son. And then that night after they had a big fight and Christophers Dad stepped out the house the dog started to attack him and at this moment all the anger in him just exploded and he grabbed the garden fork and just sticked it into the dog.
After Christopher finds out about that he decides to run away because if his Dad killed Wellington he might as well kill him, too. So he waits for his Dad to fall asleep, packs some stuff together including his rat Toby and goes out to hide behind the garden shed until he has decided what to do next.

Chapter 149-157

Next Monday when Christopher goes to school again, Siobhan asks him wheter Dad had hit him and how it happened. But Christopher answers that he can´t remember because he had a blackout. When he gets home he starts to look for his book that his Dad threw away. After he doesn´t find it in the dustbin in the yard he starts to look for it in all the other rooms and finally in his Dads room. There he finds it in a box in the cupboard but he decides to leave it there for now so his father wouldn´t know he took it again. Just when he hears his Dads van pull into the driveway he sees a bunch of letters in the same box which are addressed to him. But because he doesnt have a lot of time he just takes one and puts the box back where it was so his Dad wouldn´t notice anything.
After dinner Christopher goes up to his room and reads the letter. It is addressed to him and signed with "Mum" which really confuses him because the date on the letter is 16.10.97 but at this point his Mom was already dead. In the letter "Mum" says sorry for leaving him and that she has a new job and that she lives in London now with Roger and that she hopes that he isn´t mad at her forever. Christopher can´t really make sense of that and decides to wait till he can go into fathers room again and read the other letters to find out wheter it was really his Mom or somebody sent the letter to a wrong address and meant to send it to another Christopher.

Chapter113-149

After school Christopher goes home and watches some videos untill his Dad comes home. But as soon as he comes in Chris remembers that he has forgotten the book (he is writing) on the kitchen table. His Dad gets really angry and shouts at Chtistopher because he told him so many times not to try to find out more about Wellingtons murder anymore. At one point he grabbs Christophers arm really hard and like we know he doesnt like that at all so he hits him and him and his Dad start to fight. Christopher then has a blackout for a short time which means he cant exactly remember what happend the last coupple of minutes and when he is conscious again he hears his Dad throw away his book outside.
The next day his father excuses for hitting him in the face and takes him to Twycross Zoo to see some animals. There he tells Christopher that he loves him and if something like that happens it´s only because he worries about him. Christopher understands that and spreads his fingers out in a fan to touch his Dads hand to tell him everything is good again (that´s what they do to say that they love each other because Christopher doesn´t like hugging etc.).

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As Chris tells his Dad that he thinks Mr Shears killed Wellington, he tells him to not mention his name in this house anymore because the man was "evil". This makes Chris wonder even more but he promises his Dad to stop his detective work anyways.
A couple of days later Christopher meets Mrs Alexander on the street who tells him the real reason why his Dad doesn´t want him to talk about Mr Shears. That´s because he had an affair with Christophers Mom and his Dads wife which destroyed their marriage.
When Christopher shows the book to one of his teachers, Siobhan, the next school day(because she looks if he makes any writing or grammar mistakes) she asks him whether he was sad about the thing with his Mom and Mr Shears. But he answers No, because mother was dead and it would be stupid to be sad about something that isn´t there anymore.

Chapter47-73

Christopher finally decides to keep locking for Wellingtons murderer even though his Dad told him to stop sticking his nose into other people businesses. He plans on doing that with the help of "white lies" which is not exactly lying but leaving out the parts which could bother the other person (in christophers case his Dad) . At first he decides to talk to Mrs Shears and tell her that he is looking for the culprit but she threats him by saying she is going to call the cops again so he leaves after taking a look at her shed and recognizing the fork with which Wellington was killed.
The next saturday he continues his detective work and peays every house in his street a visit to question the people about the incident. But that doesn´t get him further so he comes to the conclusion that probably Mr Shears killed Wellington because he broke up with Mrs Shears and he could be hating her and wanting to hurt her. But he doesnt know a lot about him so he decides to find out more about him.