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could work on it. I don’t want to invite Izzy too! I don’t like her!”
“Why not?” Maya looked at her in surprise. Izzy was so quiet it was hard to think of there being anything about her to dislike.
Emily scowled. “Toby kicked a football at her in the playground last year. It was an accident,” she added hastily. “But she was really nasty to him.”
“He broke her glasses!” Poppy pointed out. “And you’re nasty to him all the time.”
“Yeah, but he’s my brother, I’m allowed. It’s different!” Emily muttered. “And I don’t like her anyway. She’s stuck-up. She thinks she’s better than everyone else. Goes round with her nose in the air the whole time.”
Maya looked at Izzy, who was still slowly gathering her things, as though she knew they were talking about her. She didn’t look stuck-up. At all. But she was so, so shy. She hardly ever talked to anyone. Maybe that’s why Emily thought she was snotty?
“Sorry,” Maya muttered. “She looked really sad. I only wanted to cheer her up.”
Emily sighed. “Your problem is that you’re too nice. It’s probably because you haven’t got any brothers.”
Izzy was threading her way back between the 31