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    â€˜Oh, wasps – look!’ shouted Sooze, pointing.
    Twink held back a shriek. There were Teena and Zuzu, standing on the railing of the star-gazing platform – with their wings folded behind their backs!
    â€˜What are you doing?’ yelled Sooze frantically. ‘Get down, the pair of you!’
    Zuzu blinked, wavering. Suddenly she cried out and flung her arms around Teena. Teena struggled with her, arms flailing. The two fairies stumbled, and Twink gasped. Zuzu was clearly star-struck – and was trying to push Teena over the edge of the platform!
    Her pulse roared through her brain. ‘ Get away from my sister! ’ she screamed.
    Jetting to the platform, she snatched Teena off the railing and into the air. Dimly, she was aware of Zuzu falling backwards as Teena squawked in surprise, kicking and squirming in Twink’s arms. ‘Let me go! Let me –’
    â€˜Stop it!’ yelled Twink. She swerved narrowly past a branch, trying to land them both safely. ‘Teena, we’ll –’
    Crash! The two fairies were thrown apart as they slammed into a branch. Twink slumped against the rough bark. Oh, her head!
    Beside her, Teena was huddled against a fork in the branch, crying softly. Ignoring her throbbing skull, Twink crawled over and touched her shoulder. ‘Teena?’ she whispered.
    â€˜What happened?’ sobbed Teena. ‘I don’t understand . . . Twink, I’m so confused!’ She flung herself into Twink’s arms, and the two sisters hugged tightly. Twink’s heart was hammering. Oh, if anything had happened to Teena!
    She smoothed her sister’s long hair. ‘Hush, it’s all right,’ she soothed. ‘I’ve got you.’
    Gulping and sniffling, Teena sat up. ‘What – what happened?’ she asked.
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    â€˜Zuzu tried to push you over the edge of the platform,’ said Twink, glaring upwards. She could hear Zuzu crying, and Sooze talking softly to her. Good! She was glad that Sooze’s cousin was so upset.
    Teena’s mouth dropped open. ‘No, she didn’t.’
    â€˜She did ,’ said Twink. ‘Teena, I saw the whole thing – you were both on the edge, and –’
    â€˜No, I remember now!’ cried Teena. ‘It was like we were under a spell! I thought we were flowers, and that we could drift to the ground – and then Zuzu broke out of it, and she was trying to stop me.’
    Twink’s jaw tightened. She thought if she heard Zuzu’s name once more, she’d scream! ‘Teena, when are you going to stop defending her? You wouldn’t even have been up here if it weren’t for her!’
    â€˜I think it’s the other way around, actually ,’ announced a voice. Sooze fluttered down to Twink’s branch, her arm firmly around the sobbing Zuzu. ‘Twink, what’s been going on this term? Zu says you hate her!’
    Twink flapped her wings angrily. ‘I don’t hate her – but it’s obvious what sort of fairy she is, isn’t it? Teena never got into a wing’s breadth of trouble before, and now –’
    â€˜Now what ?’ Sooze stared at her. ‘You can’t be suggesting that this was Zuzu’s fault – she’d never do something like this on her own!’
    Zuzu sobbed harder, covering her face with her hands. ‘I only wanted to help – I –’
    â€˜Ha!’ shouted Twink. The leaves trembled around them. ‘For your information, I saw her up here weeks ago, sneaking around, and –’ Suddenly Twink remembered the prank that had been played on her, and she stopped in confusion. Had it been Zuzu she’d seen that day? Or –
    â€˜You’re not listening! You never listen!’ screeched Teena, stamping her foot. ‘ I’m the one who wanted to come up here, not Zuzu. It was me you saw! That’s why we played the prank on you – to show you how