Phredde and the Ghostly Underpants: A Story to Eat with a Mango by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [Jackie French]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730444886
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Chapter 12

Alone!

A place can seem really empty when phaeries leave. I mean, humans walk out the door so you have time to sort of say goodbye. But phaeries just go PING! and they’re out of there.

Not that I minded. Not at all.

Or just a little bit. Maybe.

Or quite a lot really.

I sat at the table and sniffed, then reached for my hanky and had a good blow. Suddenly I heard Amelia’s voice, almost as though she were really in the dining room. ‘Of course poor Phredde and Bruce must get so BORED with a human trailing after them.’

Did they get bored? Maybe…maybe Phredde just hung round with me because there were no other girl phaeries. Maybe she really wanted a friend who could PING! just like her. Maybe Bruce would rather have a girlfriend who was a phaery too, I thought miserably. Of course he knew Phredde, but she didn’t like frogs.

Maybe now they were older they’d go PING!ing off to parties in Phaeryland with other phaeries. They’d forget all about our adventures escaping from dinosaurs or discovering Ancient Egyptian villains. Maybe every time they’d rescued me from a zombie librarian or an exploding volcano they’d thought, Oh well, here we go again. The poor human needs to be rescued…

‘Wuff,’ said something at my feet.

I looked down. There was nothing to see, of course—you can’t see ghosts in daylight. But suddenly I smeled a familiar smell.

Willie had weed under the table.

‘Wuff,’ said Willie again, and I felt…almost felt…a small wet nose brush against my ankle, then a breeze of ghostly fur jumped onto my lap.

He was only a ghost, of course. But it was nice to have him there.

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