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face, as she counted off her points on her fingers. “Very hard-working. Nervous about friendships, and not very confident. But very clever. You really had to be a Virgo.”
“I’m not sure I believe in all that stars stuff,” Izzy said apologetically, hoping Poppy wouldn’t mind. She just couldn’t pretend she believed in it.
Poppy shrugged. “I do and I don’t. Sometimes it works, but sometimes things don’t fit at all. Virgos aren’t really supposed to be great organisers, so that obviously doesn’t work.”
Izzy turned pink at the compliment, and Poppy hauled her up off the step. “Come on. Let’s all go and sit on the bank.” It was everyone’s favourite part of the playground, the grassy slope that ran around the edge of the main playground and up to the field that they used for PE.
“Do you think Mr Finlay will let me change places, and come and sit with you?” Izzy asked, rather shyly. She still wasn’t sure what Maya and Emily felt about her moving. She suspected it was Poppy’s idea.
“I shouldn’t think he’d mind,” Maya said, stretching her feet out in front of her, and sighing happily. It was sunny, for the first day in ages, and she wanted her legs to get brown. “Just warn me if any of the
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