Jacqueline Wilson Biscuit Barrel by Jacqueline Wilson

Author:Jacqueline Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RHCB
Published: 2002-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t believe it was Kelly. But there are no other girls like her. She has hair sticking straight up in the air in a top knot. When she’s excited it waggles about. She’s got little dark glinty eyes and a great big grin. She wears bright clingy clothes and posh trainers and she talks all the time. Well, I suppose there are quite a lot of girls like Kelly, but she’s the bounciest.

‘Kelly!’ I said.

‘Hi, Tim,’ she said. She grinned, the corners of her mouth almost tickling her ears. She had new earrings, white and sparkly. She twiddled them proudly.

‘Do you like my diamonds? My mum’s boyfriend Dave bought me them as a holiday present,’ she said.

‘Wow! Real diamonds!’ I said.

‘Well. Not real real. But they’re very good synthetic stones,’ Kelly said, tossing her head about so that they caught the light. ‘Right. Budge over, Tim. I’ll show you how to work these cranes.’

Kelly’s mum’s boyfriend Dave had given her a whole purseful of change. She inserted a coin and started twiddling.

She was ace.

In a matter of minutes Theresa Troll had a whole tribe of relations: Tracy Troll and Truman Troll and Tabitha Troll and Tyrone Troll and Tilly Troll and Trocadero Troll. Biscuits and Dad and Mum heard Kelly’s triumphant crowing as she kept capturing yet another troll. They came over to watch.

Then Kelly’s mum and Kelly’s mum’s boyfriend Dave and Kelly’s little brother Dean and her baby brother Keanu came and watched too. It got very crowded. I’d have died if everyone was watching me. It didn’t put Kelly off a bit.

Then all the grown-ups started talking and Kelly’s mum’s new boyfriend Dave got introduced. He had the most amazing tattoos all the way up his arms. Snakes and flowers and hearts and a lady in a bikini. He could make her waggle when he moved his muscle. He showed Biscuits and me and we thought it cooler than cool. We kept wanting him to do it, but Mum gave me a sharp nudge and told me not to keep pestering. She didn’t say much else. Kelly’s mum said lots and lots. Dad did too.

‘I just can’t get over the coincidence of you being here on holiday too!’ he said. ‘I mean, Llanpistyll and Abercoch are such out of the way places.’

‘It was our Kelly. She looked them up on the map, she did, and said she just knew Llanpistyll would be great. And so we made sure there was a caravan site – and here we are.’

‘Oh, you’re staying at the caravan site,’ said Mum.

‘Don’t tell me you are too!’ said Kelly’s mum, laughing and flipping her pony-tail.

Kelly’s mum is ever so like Kelly. Only more glittery.

‘Oh no! No, we’re staying at the Gwesty Bryn Nodfa. It’s a very nice quiet family hotel,’ said Mum.

‘Poor you,’ said Kelly. ‘It’s ever such fun down the caravan site. We’ve got our own amusement arcade and there’s swings and all sorts.’

‘Yes, it’s great for the kiddies,’ said Kelly’s mum’s boyfriend Dave.

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