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“Maybe.” Izzy nodded.
“Is your dad picking you up today?” Poppy asked suddenly.
Izzy nodded. “Yes. He always does.” Izzy’s dad was a gardener, and he fitted his work in around school hours. It usually worked, although she did have to go to work with him in the holidays now that her mum wasn’t there. She usually sat in his truck with a book unless there was something she could help with. “Almost always, anyway. I go to after-school club if he’s got a big job on.”
“Do you think he’d let you come over to mine?” Poppy said hopefully. “My mum wouldn’t mind. She only works mornings on Fridays, so she’d be picking me up.”
Izzy swallowed, suddenly nervous. She’d met Poppy’s mum when she’d taken all the girls to Tara’s clothes shop to find out about Fairtrade clothes. She was really nice – friendly and funny.
But she hadn’t been over to a friend’s house all this year. Not for most of last year either actually. How sad was that.
“Would your dad let you?” Poppy asked anxiously. “Would he say it was too short notice?”
“I don’t think so...” Izzy said slowly. She knew her 28