Sequin and Stitch by Laura Dockrill

Author:Laura Dockrill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barrington Stoke Ltd
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Yes,” says Mum.

“Do you promise?”

“Yes, I promise.”

Chapter 10

Stitch and I wake up on Sunday morning and see Mum sitting at the end of my bed. She’s beaming proudly as the sun filters through the curtains.

“OK, it’s ready …” Mum whispers excitedly. I can tell she’s hardly slept.

Mum leads me into the living room with her overworked hands covering my eyes. “No peeking …”

My heart is beating.

“Ready … steady … go …” Mum says.

And she removes her hands for me to see the finished royal wedding dress on the mannequin.

The dress is like a dazzling chandelier, shimmering and glinting and twinkling. It’s a mirror ball of diamonds, throwing confetti reflections onto the walls of our cramped flat, jewel sparkles hanging from the ceiling like tears.

Or it’s a white silent blanket of snow, with glittering snowflakes of ivory lace. It’s like lashings of thick frosty icing on a Christmas cake, but light like whipped ice cream. It’s a mosaic of glass beads, swan‑like silk, of pearl sequins.

It is perfect.

“You’ve done it, Mum!” I say. “You’ve done it!”

Mum admires her work and smiles, which she doesn’t often do. “All I have to do now,” she says, “is find the courage to convince Moany Bony Mr Tony not to smoke for the rest of the day. Otherwise the princess is going to walk down the aisle smelling like an ashtray.”

“Don’t worry about that, Mum. I’ll ask him.”

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