I find myself actually missing the days when all I had to worry about was a bit of cattiness from the twins. That was a picnic with fairy cakes and ice cream compared with Aubrey going on and on about Finn. Any chance she gets during the day she is talking about him, dreaming about what it will b...
I blundered down the stairs, swiping furiously at my wet, tear-streaked face and pushed past Ty who was standing in the hall, gawping at me and waving a long-suffering Huckleberry in the air. ‘Ber-tiiie,’ he whined. ‘Jazz just called Huckleberry a tail-less lettuce-munchin...
Jazz had spent the whole bus journey holding court to anyone who would listen about how she and Danni Minnow were such close mates and how she was going to email her that night about Kezia’s auditions. I looked out in vain for Fergus until I remembered that he had been at another band rehearsal. ...
‘I’m going out of my mind! What if she’s run away? I’ve been working so hard recent— Oh, thank goodness, she’s just come in. Look, I’ll call you back.’ He threw the phone down on to the table and ran over to me I was horrified to see it looked as though he’d been crying. I felt a wave of sickness...
‘And if it wasn’t for the fact that having braids in your hair looks Totally Mega Lush, I am really not altogether positive that I will be going through that all over again in a hurry.’ Her mum had tugged and pulled so hard that Flo said she was sure her eyes were going to actually fall out of he...
The next morning I found Fergus in the kitchen, clearing up the remains of the meal from the night before. He had swept up the fragments from the broken plate and had even put the kettle on and laid the table for breakfast. ‘Least I could do.’ He smiled bashfully. ‘I could...
My dad never liked cats. And when I say ‘never’, I mean ‘never ever’. He was the sort of man who would hiss, spit and shout if a cat had the audacity to enter our garden. ‘Nasty creatures,’ he’d say. ‘And they dig up the bulbs and do their business everywhere.’ Not that Da...
Dad wasn’t much use He kept saying, ‘Just let me finish this and then we’ll go out and do something.’ But he obviously never did finish ‘this’, which seemed to involve him staring at his laptop screen and muttering to himself. So I mooched in my room for most of the day, c...
