The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale by Ben Miller

Author:Ben Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2020-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Briar Rose’s party passed in a blur. Luckily, the curse had kept everything fresh, despite it being one hundred years old. A suckling pig arrived, high on the shoulders of four kitchen porters, and was followed by game pie, roast squash and buttered greens. After that came Lana’s old friends, the cheeses from the cheese cupboard, followed by the cream horns, fruit scones and (slightly squashed) jam tarts and, finally, when everyone was fit to burst, out sailed the birthday cake, lit with one hundred and fifteen candles.

No sooner had Briar Rose blown them out, when in sprang a troupe of tumblers, climbing higher and higher on each other’s shoulders, climaxing in a human pyramid. Next came a strong man, who lifted eight sacks of flour with a wooden yoke; then, finally, a band of musicians played a merry jig and everyone got up to dance. Lana found herself swept away, like a piece of driftwood, on wave after wave of pure joy.

But it was when she saw the king and queen dancing with Briar Rose that Lana suddenly thought of her own parents. As fun as it was here, she and Harrison needed to get home, before their mum and dad missed them and started to worry. So she pushed her way through the crowd, until she found her brother, dancing in a circle with Prince Otto and the two knights.

The music was now so loud that Lana had to shout directly into his ear.

‘I think we need to go back!’ she shouted.

‘Sorry,’ said Harrison.

‘I SAID I THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK!’

‘I know,’ smiled Harrison. ‘And I was saying sorry. For not believing you about the portal.’

‘Oh,’ said Lana. ‘That’s okay.’

‘And I’m sorry for being so serious about everything recently,’ said Harrison. ‘I’ve been so worried about school and studying that I forgot that sometimes it’s important just to have fun.’

Lana smiled. She had her brother back.

‘Can we come here again some time?’ asked Harrison.

Lana felt a warm, happy feeling inside. ‘Any time you like,’ she replied, beaming.

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