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a warm-up. It’s just to make us talk. And I’m too excited!”
This girl had found a door in me and broken in. I shouldn’t have to be with her. And, anyway, her feet were dirty. My head pounded. These people were weird.
Dad’s drama club was terrible.
I got away from the girl, but I still had to wander around as if I was busy. I noticed an old piano right at the end of the hut. Probably out of tune. I wished I could play it, though.
We had to pretend to be on board a ship. Avalon would tap us on the shoulder and ask us what we were doing. I was panicking inside. What if she tapped me?
I worked out she picked on people who looked at her, so I kept my head down. I would be seasick on the ship, throwing up over the side, I decided. Really ill.
She tapped someone. “I’m watching dolphins,” they said.
“Great!” Avalon clapped and her wide sleeves flapped.
The red tights girl leaped on a chair. “I’m
climbing the rigging!” she shouted.
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