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said Chloe.
    â€œWe’ve all had super sleepovers,” said Emily. “But yours is just great, Daisy,” and she reached for my hand under the rug and gave it a squeeze.
    While we sipped our drinks and munched popcorn we swapped our Most EmbarrassingMoments (I’m not going to tell you!) and we laughed so much the bowl tipped over and we had to play hunt the popcorn in our sleeping bags. Then we played Double Dare and some of the dares were amazingly outrageous (I’m not going to tell you again, though I will just say that
one
of us took her pyjamas off and went into the garden and ran right round the tent, but it was dark by then so no-one could see – I hope!)
    Then we started to tell ghost stories and that was fun at first but Chloe’s started to get a bit too scary.
    â€œDo shut up, Chloe,” Emily begged, putting her hands over her ears.
    â€œDon’t be stupid. It’s just a
story
. Ghosts aren’t
real
,” said Chloe.
    â€œYes, they are! My granny kept seeing the ghost of my grandad after he died,” said Amy.
    â€œLet’s
play
ghosts,” said Bella, and she pulled the white pillow case off her pillow and put it over her head and made funny
who-o-o-o
ghost noises. Then she went
oooh
instead because she’d found some more popcorn inside the pillowcase and went gobble gobble munch munch.
    â€œYou are a piglet, Bella,” said Amy.
    So Bella made piglet noises and then we all played a daft game of Farmyard and got the giggles so badly our tummies hurt. Then we sang all the songs we knew and then we played making up a poem together.
    I started it.
    â€œWe are the special Alphabet Girls.”

    â€œSome of us have straight hair, some of us have curls,” said Emily.
    â€œWe all like to dance if we get the chance,” said Amy.

    â€œWe eat lots of chocolate yum yum yum,” said Bella.

    â€œChloe and Emily, Amy and Bella, and Daisy Diddums Fat Bum,” said Chloe.
    â€œDaisy isn’t a bit fat,” said Emily.

    â€œ
I
am, but I don’t care,” said Bella. “Daisy, do you think your mum might have some
more
popcorn in the kitchen?”
    â€œI think my mum and dad have gone to bednow. But tell you what we
have
got . . . my birthday chocolates!”
    I handed round the box. Emily said she was far too full up to have even half a chocolate. Amy took one. Chloe chose the special caramel and hazelnut, my favourite. Bella took one – and then another and another – and then even she said sleepily that she was
almost
full up.
    We were all starting to feel very, very s-l-e-e-p-y . . .
    Bella fell so soundly asleep she started to snore a little bit and we all got the giggles. Then Amy curled up and went quiet. After a long time Chloe dropped off too. Emily and I whispered very, very quietly together. I decided to close my eyes just for a minute and then I was suddenly asleep too . . .
    I woke up with a start. I heard this rustling nearby. Then something grabbed hold of my shoulder. The white witchy ghost was coming to get me!
    â€œHelp!” I gasped.
    â€œShut
up
, stupid.”
    It was only Chloe, wriggling right out of her sleeping bag.
    â€œWhat are you
doing
, Chloe? It’s still the middle of the night.”
    â€œI know. I need to go to the loo. You’ll have to show me where it is.”
    â€œIt’s upstairs. Mum left the back door ajar so we’d be able to nip in.”
    â€œI won’t be able to find it in the dark,” said Chloe, shaking me. “You’ll have to come with me.”
    â€œOooh, I’m so sleepy, Chloe,” I said. Then a thought occurred to me that made me wake up properly.
    â€œHey, you’re not
scared
of the dark, are you?”

    â€œOf course not, idiot,” said Chloe, but when we crept out of the tent into the black garden a cat suddenly yowled and we
both
squealed and clutched each other. We trekked through the wet grass in our bare