It was nice to just help Miss Caroline with the younger kids. I knew things would be awkward with Ash after yesterday, and it had been bugging me since I was rude to her. We’d never had a fight and I wanted to apologise. Plus, I really wanted to talk to her about my frustration at not being able to dance – she was so good at cheering me up. I also didn’t want to see Ellie, knowing what I knew. Should I tell her? Or should I try to show her what she was doing wrong in practice? Maybe I should say nothing, seeing as it was secret information, and I wasn’t supposed to know at all? Would it give her an unfair advantage over the other girls if I told her? I hated having a secret. It was such a miserable feeling. I knew that when I looked at Ellie, that’s all I would think about. I wished I’d never opened the stupid file at all. It was hanging over my head like a bad smell. ‘Curiosity killed the cat, Riley,’ Nana always says to me. She’d be disappointed I’d looked at the file in the first place, and somehow that made me feel the worst.
