Weddings and Wishes by Stacy Gregg

Author:Stacy Gregg [Gregg, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2021-05-31T17:00:00+00:00

It was not a ‘little talk’ as it turned out. It was a very long rant.

‘I’ve had enough, Olivia!’ Mrs Campbell fumed. And Olivia knew it was serious because her mum had used her full name, which she only did when she was really cross. ‘I’ve asked you a million times to clean your bedroom and you keep wiggling out of it. And speaking of wiggling out of things – I went to move the pizza box you’d left on the floor and there is a family of mice living in it!’

‘I’m going to clean it!’ Olivia objected. ‘Honest!’

‘Then get cracking!’ Mrs Campbell said. ‘Right now!’

‘Now?’ Olivia groaned. ‘Mum! I’m exhausted!’

‘Exhausted? From what?’ Mrs Campbell narrowed her eyes and Olivia realised she had no excuse. She couldn’t tell her mum that she’d just spent the entire morning washing a magical pony with her best friend, a two-hundred-year-old ghost. There was nothing else for it. She took off her wellies and rolled up her sleeves again. It was time to clean.

For the rest of the afternoon Olivia sorted her way through the piles of clothes on her floor. But by dinner time she still couldn’t see the carpet.

‘You’ve been at it a while. How’s it going in there?’ her mum asked as she served up schnitzel and mashed potatoes.

‘There’s too much to do!’ Olivia moaned. ‘I’ll never get it done in time.’

‘You know,’ Mrs Campbell said, ‘if you kept your room tidy in the first place, you wouldn’t be in this pickle.’

‘I hear there was a family of mice living a pizza box,’ Ella said smugly. ‘I keep my bedroom tidy. There are no hidden secrets in my room.’

Olivia put down her knife and fork in shock. ‘That’s it!’ she said. ‘There is a hidden secret in my bedroom!’

Mrs Campbell groaned. ‘Not more mice!’

Olivia gobbled the rest of her dinner and returned to her room in great excitement. In all the mess she had created she had totally lost track of her things, and she kept unearthing treasures. But there was one secret treasure that still remained hidden. It was a golden box and she hadn’t laid eyes on it since her eighth birthday.

‘But it has to be here somewhere,’ Olivia said. ‘It has to be!’

Yet as she sorted her toys and folded her clothes she began to give up hope.

It was after midnight, when Olivia was stacking away a pile of jumpers, that beneath them she saw … the golden box!

‘Please let it still be in here …’ she breathed.

She opened the box and clapped her hands with glee. ‘Oh yay! It’s all here! Oh yes! This is definitely going to help Sparkle win!’

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