Becky's Terrible Term by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The rest of Friday evening was deeply uncomfortable. Mum was working to finish a translation to a tight deadline, so she missed out on the prickly atmosphere. The triplets were glad. This wasn’t one of those silly squabbles about keeping their room tidy that she could jolly them out of. For once, they didn’t chat when they went to bed. Katie and Annabel fell asleep quite quickly, full of righteous indignation, and Becky lay awake seething. By the time she woke up next morning, her sisters’ beds were empty. Becky didn’t feel like getting up. She nipped out of bed quickly and grabbed one of her battered collection of pony books. She needed comfort reading. Then she snuggled back under her warm duvet and read determinedly. Unfortunately, the ditzy heroine kept reminding her of Annabel. This wasn’t working. Stupid sisters!

“Hello, Becky. You’re in bed late.” Mum poked her head round the door.

“Mmm,” Becky replied unhelpfully, hoping that her mother’s sixth sense wouldn’t pick up that something was wrong. Mum could tell that things weren’t right, but also that Becky really didn’t want to talk about it, so she decided to leave things for now. She did pick up on the obvious, though. “You didn’t go out with Katie and Annabel then?”

Silly question! thought Becky crossly. She can see perfectly well I didn’t! “No, I didn’t feel like it. I’m tired.”

“All right, darling. I’m working this morning – just let me know if you want anything, OK?” Mum went back downstairs and Becky was left feeling aimless. She knew where Bel and Katie had gone – they’d told Mum at teatime yesterday. Bel was round at Saima’s, trying on her gorgeous new outfits, and Katie was meeting up with Megan at the park to play football. Even before last night’s row she hadn’t felt much like joining in. Saima seemed to be so much Bel’s particular friend now, as Megan was Katie’s. It wasn’t that she didn’t get on with Saima and Megan, but she didn’t like feeling that she was just tagging along with her sisters. It was so different from before – going to a new school seemed to have changed them into different people, people who didn’t much like her any more.

Just then Pixie wandered into the bedroom, looking for some attention – preferably from a sensible person who would stroke her nicely while she fell asleep curled up on their bed. She turned a charm offensive on Becky to get her own way, leaping gracefully on to the bed and bounding up to her, then headbutting her lovingly on the chin, and winding her slinky body round the book. By the time Pixie’s purrs had settled into sleepy breathing, Becky was feeling more determined – she had to do something. Nice though it would be to hide under the duvet all day, she couldn’t stop herself thinking. She crept out of bed, only half-waking Pixie (who snorted in disgust and went back to sleep), and got dressed in jeans and a cosy blue fleecy top.

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