Sue Mongredien – Sleepover Girls on the Catwalk (страница 3)

Everyone started shouting things out.

“Going to the beach!”

“Going to see my cousins!”

“Going to Disneyworld in Florida!” Emma Hughes yelled out, just so everyone could hear. Such a show-off.

“Staying up late!”

“Good, good,” said Brown Owl. “So we all enjoy holidays, don’t we?”

“Yeeeah!” everyone shouted.

“Right,” Brown Owl said. “Well, now I want us to think about the people who aren’t as lucky as you lot – who can’t go abroad, or to the beach – who might not have any family to go with, even if they could.”

We’d all gone quiet, wondering what was coming next.

“I’m talking about the old people’s home in town,” Brown Owl told us. “Some of the people there never get to leave Cuddington. They’re old, and some of them get very lonely. I want you to think about how it must feel to be an old lady, living in a home like that.”

GRIM!!! I couldn’t help shuddering as Brown Owl said that. What an awful thought! Being wrinkly and ancient and stuck inside all the time. I couldn’t think of anything more depressing.

“That’s why I’ve decided that our Brownie pack is going to give them a bit of a treat,” Brown Owl said with a big smile. “We’re going to put on a show for them at the end of this month – and you Brownies are going to decide just what sort of a show we’re going to do!”

“How about working out some dance routines?” Emily suggested loudly. Just because she reckoned she was an ace dancer. Ugh, no thanks – who’d want to be bossed around by one of the Gruesome Twosome? Not likely!

“Magic tricks!” Frankie shouted, trying to drown her out.

“A fashion show!” I blurted out. It was a brilliant idea, I knew it!!! And I could be the star model!!

“A gymnastics display!” Kenny shouted out straight afterwards. I should have known she wouldn’t be keen on my idea!

It was getting a bit chaotic – everyone was shouting things out at once. In the end, Brown Owl blew on her whistle – screeeee! – and the hall fell silent.

“Thank you!” she said. “Well, I’m glad you’ve got lots of ideas between you – that’s an excellent start. It’s probably best if we put on a few different acts – rather like a talent show. So, first things first, let’s sort out which Six is going to do what.”

“We’re doing a fashion show,” I told my Six. After all, I was a Sixer so I was the boss.

“That’s not fair,” Kelly Morgan, my Seconder said. “Me and Jacinta play recorder – we want to do a song, don’t we?”

“Yeah,” said Jacinta.

“Well… well, you can’t,” I said. Now I had my sights set on a fashion show, I was desperate to do it.

“Why not?” Kelly answered.

“Because… because I said so!” I told them, feeling my face go a bit hot. I don’t like arguments, but couldn’t bear the thought of losing my fashion show.

All round the hall, similar conversations were going on. Not one Six could decide what to do without having a row over it.

I saw Snowy Owl – who’s my Aunty Jill actually – go over and whisper something to Brown Owl.

Then Kelly spoke up again. “Excuse me, Brown Owl, but there’s about five of us that are in the school band and play instruments – can’t we work out a song together? Do we have to stay in Sixes?”

I felt myself going red. Oh no, my Seconder didn’t want to be in my group! How embarrassing was that?

“And us dancers would like to put together a dance routine,” Emily said smugly. “Not all of us want to mess around with magic tricks!” She was in Frankie’s Six, and Frankie glared at her so fiercely that anyone weedier than Emily might have passed out from the force of it. Unfortunately, Emily was used to Frankie’s glares and ignored it.

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