Fairy Secrets by Gwyneth Rees

Author:Gwyneth Rees [Rees, Gwyneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

The following morning Ellie slipped her brother’s camera in her bag and went downstairs to tell her aunt she was going into the village to buy a comic.

‘All right, Ellie. Maybe David wants to go with you.’

But fortunately for Ellie, David didn’t. ‘I’m going to go out by myself to do some sketches of the wildlife,’ he told them. ‘I might take some photographs too. Have you seen my camera, Ellie?’

‘No,’ Ellie lied, clutching her bag and willing herself not to look guilty.

‘David had a strange dream about his camera last night,’ Aunt Megan told Ellie. ‘He was just telling me about it. He dreamt it was being carried through the air and out of the window.’

‘Really?’ Ellie was startled. ‘Did you see who was carrying it?’ she asked him.

David scowled. ‘No. But it’s no wonder I’m getting weird dreams, having to listen to all the nonsense you talk!’

Ellie realized that she’d better leave before David discovered that his camera really had been taken. ‘See you later,’ she said quickly to Aunt Megan, before hurrying through the door.

Bronwen and Myfanwy had promised to meet her outside the church at ten o’clock, and as soon as she got there they flew out from behind an old gravestone and greeted her excitedly.

‘So what do you want us to do when we get there?’ Bronwen asked as they headed towards Mrs Lloyd-Hughes’s house together.

‘I suppose the main thing is to get her attention away from me while I’m putting the photograph of Henrietta back in its album,’ Ellie replied.

‘That will be easy,’ Myfanwy said, grinning. ‘We can always knock an ornament off a shelf, or fly up to the ceiling and give one of the chandeliers a bit of a rattle – if there are any chandeliers, that is. Fewer and fewer houses seem to have them these days.’

‘I don’t want you to break anything,’ Ellie said. ‘Especially not her ornaments, because they look really expensive.’

‘We could just tap on the window with a branch or something,’ Bronwen suggested. ‘But we’ll have to stay outside to do that.’

‘What if she sees you?’ Ellie frowned. ‘I mean, do you know for a fact that she doesn’t believe in fairies?’

‘Oh yes,’ Myfanwy said confidently. ‘Last summer a whole bunch of us gatecrashed one of her garden parties and she didn’t see any of us – though one of her friends did, which was a bit tricky.’

They had reached the front door now and Ellie rang the bell. As she waited for the housekeeper to appear, the two fairies flew off to find some suitable twigs to bang against the living-room window.

‘Wait until you see me pick up the photograph album before you do it,’ Ellie called after them, and they nodded that they would, before disappearing into the garden.

*

The housekeeper led her straight into the living room, where Mrs Lloyd-Hughes was sitting reading a book. She looked up in astonishment when she saw who it was.

‘Ellie? What a surprise! Is your aunt not with you this time?’

Feeling a wave of shyness come over her, Ellie swallowed and shook her head.

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