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be too. Imagine having to go and beg to be in someone’s group. She’ll probably end up with Lucy and Ali and that lot, and they’ll make her do all the work, and be really mean to her.
“Izzy, do you want to be in our group?” she asked, before she could think too much about it.
Poppy, Emily and Izzy all looked at her in complete shock, until Maya kicked Poppy under the table. Only gently.
Poppy jumped, and then said, “Um. Yes. Come with us.”
“That’s very nice of you, girls.” Mr Finlay beamed. “I’ll think about the cooking, Poppy.” And he hurried off to sort out an argument on the other side of the classroom.
“What did you do that for?” Emily hissed in Maya’s ear, as Izzy went to fetch her stuff. “We don’t want her, she’s so boring!”
“I don’t think she is.” Poppy looked thoughtfully over at Izzy, who was stuffing things into her pencil case slowly, with her hair hanging over her face so no one could see her red eyes. “She just doesn’t talk a lot, that’s all. Sometimes she’s quite funny. Especially in PE.”
Emily sighed. “I wanted it to be just us doing our project. You could have come round to mine so we
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