The Lost Diary of Sami Star by Karen McCombie

Author:Karen McCombie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800900271
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

“Hi!” I say, and give a shy wave to Robyn and Zadie, who are walking towards me. They’re looking at me as if I’ve grown a unicorn horn.

“Hi …” they mutter back together. Their eyes roam up and down me. I feel the opposite of invisible now – my friends can definitely see me. And it’s pretty obvious they don’t like what they see.

“What are you doing, Hannah?” asks Zadie.

I’m not sure if she’s talking about the poster they must have seen me putting up or my space buns and spotty socks.

“I made these Found posters, in case Sami’s looking for her diary,” I tell them, pointing at the fence. I suddenly see the glitter on my finger. I was copying a look I saw in one of Sami’s headshots. As usual, her face wasn’t in the picture, but I just made out a sparkle of glitter under the corner of her eyebrow.

Robyn and Zadie both blink at me slowly with their perfectly black-winged eyes.

“Don’t know why you’re bothering,” says Robyn.

Both my friends thought I was mad when I told them at school today that I’d rescued the diary. Zadie was so shocked when I told her about how I’d grubbed about in the bin to get the diary back that she nearly choked on her tuna pasta at lunch.

“Well, if I lost something, I’d be really happy if someone found it and tried to give it back to me,” I tell them.

“Yeah, but you wouldn’t be drifting around the park with something as rubbish as that so-called diary, Hannah,” says Zadie.

When Zadie talks about drifting around the park, I suddenly realise I’ve got something to ask my two best friends.

“What are you doing here anyway?” I ask. They didn’t say anything about coming here after school today.

“Oh, uh … Zadie was talking to Dan and Krish in Science last lesson,” says Robyn, looking embarrassed. “They said they might hang out here at the park, so …”

So, it looks like Sami isn’t the only one to have lost something. I think I might be losing my best friends. They’ve been getting less kind, less fun for a while now. And today they’re more interested in two random boys than me.

“Isn’t that Dan and Krish over there?” I say, pointing to the yelling idiots trying to run up the slide in the kids’ playground.

“Oh, yeah!” says Zadie, moving off without even looking at me.

“Um … do you want to come?” Robyn asks. She doesn’t look keen. I suppose me and my space buns and glitter eye-shadow might embarrass her and Zadie in front of the boys.

“No – I have to get back home,” I say, and give Robyn a wave as I walk away.

That’s a lie, of course. I don’t have to get home. The way things are, no one will notice if I’m there or not, I think sadly.

Then all of a sudden I have the strangest tickly feeling in my chest – I really, truly wish I could talk to Sami Star!

Flicking through her diary, it’s like I found a new friend.

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