Friendship Dance by Titania Woods

Author:Titania Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

The sight of him made Twink feel cross herself. ‘What’s wrong with him?’ she burst out. ‘He acts like he hates everything!’

Tilli glanced over her shoulder at Miss Organdy and her helpers, still busy with Snow and Jena.

‘You know how he’s always going on about how important his family is?’ she whispered. ‘Well, Jay said it’s really true; his parents are both ambassadors for the Queen. But he never sees them, because they spend all their time travelling. He was brought up by nurses, in a big empty house.’

Twink’s anger faded. ‘Really? But – that’s terrible.’ She couldn’t imagine never seeing her parents; how awful! Even worse would be the knowledge that they thought their job was more important than she was. ‘Do you think that’s why he hates everything?’ she asked.

Tilli shrugged. ‘It wouldn’t make me very happy. But I still don’t think he should go around acting like he’s got a nettle under his wing – he just makes everything worse for himself.’

Twink watched as the crimson-haired boy flew sullenly away towards the boys’ tree house. ‘How does Jay know?’ she asked. She couldn’t imagine Chauncey-Oberon actually telling anyone all that!

‘He has a friend at White Cloud,’ said Tilli. ‘He and the other boys wanted to tease C-O, so Jay wrote and asked his friend what he knew about Chauncey-Oberon. But when he found out, they decided not to say anything after all. It would have been pretty mean, I suppose.’

Twink nodded. Despite Chauncey-Oberon’s nasty comments to her, she was very glad that the others hadn’t used their knowledge about his family to taunt him. Nobody deserved that, not even him.

‘What’s so fascinating out there?’ asked Snow, flinging herself chummily between them. ‘Ooh look, it’s sunset – how pretty!’

Exchanging a look, Twink and Tilli agreed silently not to tell Snow. They both liked the pretty, white-haired fairy, but she did tend to blurt things out sometimes – it would be terrible if she told Chauncey-Oberon what they knew!

Miss Organdy and her helpers were just leaving, carrying the girls’ dresses with them – each carefully wrapped in rose petals. Jena yawned, stretching her wings. ‘What a palaver, eh?’ she said cheerfully. ‘Come on, you lot, we’d better get ready for dinner. Isn’t it strange, how we’re always having to change our clothes here?’

‘Oh, palace life!’ cried Snow, twirling away from the window and fluttering her wings dramatically. ‘It’s just too difficult!’

Everyone laughed. With an inward grin, Twink thought how funny it was that Snow’s crush on Gem had all but vanished as she got to know him. Now it was one of the Queen’s young counsellors who she thought was ‘swoony’, and they all teased her mercilessly!

After one last look at the sunset – now blazing rosy-orange behind the leaves – Twink started to turn from the window. All at once a prickling sensation ran across her wings, as if she were being watched. Looking back again, she gasped.

There was a pair of large, dark eyes, peering out at her from behind a nearby leaf.

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