Chapter 197- Chapter 233

Christopher doesn´t like the many people inside the train so he stands still in the train carriage for a while until he hears somebody call his name. It is the policeman who now knows that Christopher is running away from his Dad and wants to take him to the police station to meet with him. But as he is talking to Christopher and asking him why he is running away the train starts and leaves the train station. He is then forced to sit down with Christopher and wait for the next stop to be picked up by a car. Because Christopher is so excited he starts to pee in his pants though and the policeman lets him go to the bathroom. But instead of going back to his seat Christopher hides on a shelf behind some suitcases because he feels safer there. So when the train stops and the policeman comes to get Christopher he doesn´t move because he doesn´t want to be taken back to his Dad. After he sits there for another while and the train stopped a couple of times, Christopher sees another policeman looking for himj under the seats and he decides to get off the train to escape from him. When he steps out to the Londoner train station he is overcharged at first with all the people and the brigth advertisements so it takes him a while to move on and get to the information stand to ask for his further way. The lady tells him which tube to take in which direction so Chris really concentrates and follows the signs to platform 3 and sits down on a bench. When the first tube comes Christopher starts to groan again and feels really uncomfortable because so many people walk into the station and out again and Christopher can´t even see the walls anymore. So Christopher sits there for a long time while a lot of tubes come into the station get filled with people and leave again. After five hours he then realizes that Toby is missing so he gets up to look for him. But when he finds him he runs away onto the rails and Christopher follows him. Just in that moment there is another train approaching though and a man screams at Chris to get out of there but Christopher doesn´t listen because he wants to catch Toby. Just in the last moment Chris catches the rat and the man pulls him out because he doesn´t have any hand free because he is holding Toby.
Eight trains later Christopher finally has the courage to get on the train and drive towards his new home. When he gets out at the station the lady told him he still doesn´t know how to get to his Moms house though so he walks to a little shop and asks the employee how to get there. But he doesn´t tall him but wants to sell him a little London map for 2,95 pounds which Christopher buys. After 27 minutes he gets to his moms house but nobody is there so he decides to wait outside until somebody comes. A couple of hours later then he hears two people arguing and walking towards the house and he recognizes his Moms voice so he stands up and tells them that he waited for them. She can´t really believe it at first and comes to hug him but Mr Shears seems rather upset and worried that his Dad was there too and causes trouble. But when Christopher tells them that he came alone because he wants to live with them they calm down a little bit (except that Mr Shears obviously doesn´t want Christopher to live with them) and they go inside the house to get Chris something to eat and some clean clothes. Christopher then tells his Mom that he never answered her letters because he didn´t recieve them and his Dad told him she was dead. After he took a shower and put on some fresh clothes a policeman comes into the house to talk to him. He asks him whether he wanted to stay here and why he ran away. Christopher tells him why and that he didn´t want to go back to his Dads. The cop then says the situation was legally settled then and leaves. Christopher goes to sleep then but wakes up in the middle of the night because he hears people shouting downstairs. He also hears that one of the voices belongs to his Dad. After a while his Dad comes into the room and wants to talk to him. But when he talks to him Christopher doesn´t answer even when he apologizes and spreads his fingers out into a fan to touch his hands he doesn´t react. Tears start falling down his Dads cheek and he is taken out by a policeman Mr Shears called. After that Chris Mom tells him to go back to sleep so that´s what he does.