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RIVER RESCUE
“It’s OK. My mum lives in Australia. She got married again, and I’ve got a baby brother,” Izzy explained to Maya. “You weren’t supposed to know all that, don’t worry.”
“Oh.” Maya looked guilty. “I wouldn’t have said it if I had known, Izzy.”
“It’s really OK. I’m sort of used to not seeing her,” Izzy lied. “What are we going to do about Ali?” she said quickly. Even though she was upset, she still enjoyed saying “we” like that, feeling part of a special group again. It was great.
“We could just try telling her to get lost,” Emily suggested. “It would be simple.”
“She’d kill us,” Poppy pointed out.
“I wouldn’t.” Izzy shivered. “You don’t know how mean she can be. Really, deliberately on-purpose cruel. And she’s clever about it,” she added. “It isn’t just pushing you over in the playground, or anything like that.” Her eyes were burning with tears, just thinking about it. “She told Mrs Gratton I had nits last year. I got sent home. My dad was furious, he even came in and saw Mrs Angel and said they were bullying me, but Ali said she’d just made a mistake. She apologised really nicely. And then the next day she told the whole class.”
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