The Artist and The Yeti by James Hemmington

Author:James Hemmington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brown Dog Books

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Early the next day there was a knock at the door. The family were tucking into breakfast. Albie made sure the cornflakes were kept well out of mum’s reach, just in case she went into one. Paris herself had two bowls; she had really missed cornflakes.

Dad answered the door expecting to see Dr Clark, but it was Skyla. Paris had texted her last night and couldn’t wait to see her. Skyla dashed in and ran up to her friend for a huge hug, almost tripping on the hallway carpet as she sprinted into the kitchen.

Skyla couldn’t resist the question that everyone had asked Paris since her return. “Where have you been?” Paris responded with what was now her stock answer, “I can’t remember.” There were some tears and then the two friends made an escape from the rest of the family and headed to Paris’s bedroom.

“I hope you don’t mind,” said Skyla a little meekly as they sat on Paris’s bed, “But I took the watercolour of Shawn Mendez. Your mum said we could all have a souvenir, I’ll bring it back tomorrow. Sorry.”

“Don’t be silly, you can keep it,” said Paris.

For a while the two girls just caught up on news, which was really just Skyla’s news given Paris had no memory of the last six days. For Paris is was a great relief to be with her friend and feel normal. Skyla’s enthusiasm and sheer talking power relaxed Paris no end. It seemed much had happened in the time she was away. Skyla started with the apparent fall out between Molly and Beth at bowling, the day before last. Molly had turned up in this bright yellow boiler suit, though she said it was a Victoria Beckham trouser suit, with an equally bright yellow t-shirt. Beth said she looked like a telly tubby, Laa-Laa to be precise. She made it worse by saying that all Molly needed was a coat hanger in her hair to complete the look.

Skyla was pensive for a moment,“It probably wasn’t a nice thing to say and we all laughed a bit too much. It spoilt the whole day for Molly. She hasn’t texted since,”said Skyla glancing at her phone.

“That is mean,” said Paris holding back a smile, as she was thinking how upset she would feel if someone criticised her clothes.

“We should go and see her and take her some flowers. Not yellow daffodils though,” Paris added quickly. On the mention of flowers Paris reached for her daisy chain. “Look,” she said proudly, “from Toby,”

“I know,” said Skyla, “that was the day I pinched Shawn Mendez, we all came. We brought our old school shirts, we thought your mum would like them.”

Paris smiled. “Wow, I didn’t know you girls were so thoughtful.”

“Well, we’ll want them back now,” said Skyla, winking.

Skyla quickly went on to other news about on and off romances across their group. Tobias Wood had bought Beth the biggest box of chocolates she’d ever seen while Stacey had dumped her boyfriend because he hadn’t texted her for four hours.

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