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Issie said. “This place is a total mess!”
    Dee Dee looked around, surprised. “It’s not that bad. Geez…”
    Issie gave up. In a frenzy she snatched the socks and jods off her bed and threw them on to the floor. Then she grabbed her own sweatshirt and pulled it on, before heading back out of the door.
    â€œHey!” Dee Dee said. “It’s lights out in ten minutes. Where are you going?”
    â€œOut!” Issie said, slamming the door behind her.
    In the hallway she met Stella, who had clearly been waiting outside and was staring at Issie with a grin on her face.
    â€œWow!” Stella giggled. “Sounds like there’s a party in your bedroom.”
    â€œIt’s Dee Dee!” groaned Issie. “She’s singing Abba’s greatest hits and turning the room into a pigsty!”
    â€œCome on,” Stella said. “The others are waiting on the verandah—let’s go.”
    The puppy was bouncing around the stall with excitement when the girls unbolted the door. Even though he wasn’t fully grown, he was already quite big and strong for a pup, and he almost bowled Issie over as she hand-fed him the scraps from the barbecue.
    â€œHey, Wombat!” she shrieked as she toppled over on to the hay. The puppy leapt on top of her and began licking her face. “Get off me!”
    â€œWombat?” said Charlotte. “Is that what you’re calling him? I like it—I think it suits him.”
    â€œHe did look like a wombat when you found him,” Stella agreed.
    â€œLook! He’s eaten up all the food,” said Kate. “I think he’s going to be OK.”
    â€œUnless Digger gets hold of him,” added Stella darkly.
    â€œWhat are we going to do?” Morgan said. “We can’t keep him hidden forever.”
    â€œWe’ll figure it out tomorrow,” Issie said. “Come on, we better get back to the villa.”
    They bolted Wombat in for the night and set off back up the driveway. They didn’t have torches, but the lights on the verandah were just enough to light the way. Still, they couldn’t see the road beneath their feet.
    â€œIt’s creepy,” Stella said. “What if there was a snake…”
    â€œOr a great white shark!” Morgan piped up. The others giggled, but they were quite relieved when theymade it back to the verandah.
    There was no one in the hallway. Issie was relieved that Avery and Tara had gone to bed. But there was still Dee Dee to contend with.
    â€œWhere have you been?” Dee Dee’s beakish mouth was twitching as she stood waiting at the bedroom door.
    â€œNowhere,” Issie said. “I just…I went for a walk.”
    â€œThat’s a bit odd, isn’t it?” said Dee Dee. “Going for a walk in the middle of the night?”
    Issie didn’t reply. She wasn’t going to let Dee Dee get to her.
    â€œOh, well, if you want to keep secrets, that’s fine!” Dee Dee shrugged her shoulders and went back to the mirror. She had perfectly clear skin as far as Issie could tell, but she seemed to spend hours in front of the mirror fussing over her complexion. She had been busy since Issie left the room, preparing herself for bed by applying pimple cream to her face in huge white splodges.
    â€œUgh!” Dee Dee said as she stared hard at the mirror and poked at something invisible on her chin. “I have this huge subterranean zit that is a total nightmare. I’ve been squeezing and squeezing, but it won’t pop!”
    â€œEwww! Gross!” Issie couldn’t believe it. She turned her back on Dee Dee and pulled on her pyjamas. The only way to deal with her crazy room-mate was to ignore her. Luckily, she had brought the latest novel in the Palomino Princess series with her. She was up to chapter three and things were getting exciting. Issie snuggled down under the duvet and began to read…and then suddenly the