Sleepover Girls Go Snowboarding by Sue Mongredien

Author:Sue Mongredien [by Sue Mongredien ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007393961
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The whole of the next week was just unbearable. Like I said, I hate having to wait for anything – and this time it practically killed me! First of all, before we could all get really excited about going, the others had to check with their parents that it was OK for them all to come. Lyndz’s parents said yes right away. Then Rosie’s. Fliss’s mum was a bit worried about the whole thing, so I had to get my mum to phone her and reassure her that everything was going to be OK and her precious daughter wasn’t about to break her neck on the slopes.

Then Frankie rang. “Hi!” I said. “What did your parents say about the snowboarding trip?”

There was this awful silence. “Well,” she started – and then stopped.

“What?” I practically screamed down the phone. “Won’t they let you go?”

“Well, they said I could go…” she started hesitantly.

I gave a huge sigh of relief. “YEEEEAHHH!” I shouted. “Oh, thank goodness for that! I thought you were going to say you couldn’t come!”

There was another silence.

“Frankie?” I prompted.

She sighed heavily down the phone. Uh-oh. This wasn’t sounding good.

“What’s up?” I asked. “What’s the matter?”

“It’s my mum,” Frankie said slowly. “She’s got a hospital check-up that day.”

“And?” I asked. It was starting to sound worse by the second.

“And… I want to go with her,” Frankie said. “So I’m not going to go snowboarding.”

“What?!” I screeched. “Why do you have to go with her? What’s wrong with her?”

“Well, it’s just a regular check-up but her blood pressure’s still too high and… you know, I just want to be there,” she said.

My heart sank. “And she wants you to go with her, does she?” I asked.

Frankie hesitated. “Actually, she said she’d rather I went with you lot and had some fun, but…”

I pounced on her words. “You should then, if that’s what she wants! You can’t really do anything to help her at the hospital anyway, can you?”

Another pause. “Noooo, but…”

“Tell you what,” I said, thinking quickly. “Come with us and you can have a great day out and take your mind off it all. And you can ring her on her mobile if you’re worried, can’t you?”

“Ye-e-e-es,” Frankie said doubtfully, “but…”

“She’ll feel happier knowing that you’re enjoying yourself and not getting all worried,” I said, pulling out all the stops to try and convince her. Then I played my trump card. “Besides, you hate hospitals – I know you do!”

She sighed. “Yeah, you’re right,” she said, kind of reluctantly.

“Yippppppeeeeee!” I yelled. “So you’re gonna come with us, then?”

“Yeah,” she said. “But only if I can ring her while we’re there.”

“I’ll even give you 50p for the phone call if it makes you come with us!” I said, a big grin stretching across my face. “It wouldn’t be the same without you!”

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