Becky's Dress Disaster by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Max had obviously been told about the lunch too, because he got worse and worse all week. He was in detention twice for disrupting classes while he tried to upset the triplets – pulling Katie’s hair, deliberately knocking all Becky’s stuff on to the floor. Normally the weekend would at least have been a rest from him, but now they had to go and have quality time with him and his dad! Katie was furious, and had a real go at him in the playground on Friday. What really worried Becky though, was that the look of malicious glee, which used to terrify her when Max was being awful, had gone entirely. Instead Max looked desperate – as though he knew he was fighting with his back against a wall. She was still certain that because he didn’t have his mum, the relationship between their parents was going to be harder for him than it was for her and Katie and Annabel, and she still felt sorry for him – though she tended to forget that when he was tripping her up in the corridor on the way to geography.

“You did that on purpose!” Katie yelled, squaring up to Max as Annabel and the others hurried to pick Becky up. “I can’t believe you, you’re mad! You could have really hurt her!”

“Oh, don’t be such a baby!” scoffed Max, although he did peer round at Becky a little anxiously, to see if she was hurt enough to get him into trouble. She looked shaken but mostly OK, so he decided to make a quick getaway. When the girls arrived in geography he was sitting there with all his books out, looking as though butter wouldn’t melt. Katie seethed through the rest of the day – even though it had been Becky Max had tripped, she was still taking it as a personal insult. It was becoming obvious that Sunday was going to be torture.

What made it even worse was that Mum was so excited about it. Becky had seen her trying on outfits in front of the mirror and humming to herself, and she kept making cheerful little references to Sunday. She was going to get a big shock when she saw Katie and Max in the same room together – it was going to be awful. Becky decided she needed advice. She hated arguments so much, and she really wanted Sunday not to be a total disaster, for Mum’s sake if nothing else.

She headed up to the loft that evening to email Dad. It might seem funny to talk, to him about problems with Mum’s new boyfriend, but after the first months of awfulness, her parents’ split had left them on reasonably good terms. Becky knew Dad would be happy that Mum was meeting new people.

She opened up her email account and tried to think what to say. This was going to take some explaining – for a start because she still didn’t know how she felt about the whole thing.

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