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“Don’t underestimate her.” Emily shook her head. “At least three faces. Maybe even four.”
“I wish I knew how she does it.” Izzy glanced round them all, hoping she was going to be able to explain what she meant. “Couldn’t she see we all wanted her to get lost, but we weren’t rude enough to say it?”
Maya shrugged. “It’s because she’s got everyone scared. We all tiptoe round her because we think she’s about to explode into something horrible. I was waiting for the bomb to drop, and it never did.”
Izzy sighed. “I wish I could be just a tiny bit like her, though.”
The others stared at her, and Poppy put her head on one side, as though she was examining some weird creature she’d found under a rock.
“Just the nerve!” Izzy added. “Not the rest of her. She’s so brave.” She frowned. “No. Not brave. It’s that she just can’t see that anyone could possibly not want her to be their friend. Like if she offers, everyone’s going to jump at it.”
Poppy shrugged. “Most of our class probably would. Just because they’d be scared of what she might do if they said no.”
“But it’s as if she thinks we’ll all forget the horrible 24