‘Touché.’ He grinned. ‘I forgot you had a sense of humour. Hard to notice it these days under all those airs and graces.’
I straightened up, holding a banana skin.
‘I think my sense of humour would really enjoy throwing this banana skin in that smug face of yours,’ I said, as he took a small step back.
‘Put that in the bin, Flick.’ He gulped. ‘You know I hate bananas.’
‘That didn’t stop you leaving that fake snake in my locker when you knew I hated snakes.’
‘That was different.’ He shivered as I dangled the banana skin in front of him threateningly. ‘That was years ago. And it wasn’t unhygienic.’ His eyes shifted from the banana skin to meet mine. He couldn’t suppress a grin. ‘And it was hilarious. You screamed so loudly.’
Big mistake. And he knew it.
I began to chase him around the bins gleefully, as he begged me through nervous laughter to put the banana skin down. I waited until I was close enough and then launched it with perfect aim, hitting him in the back of his head.
‘FLICK!’
‘You should be grateful I didn’t get you in the face.’ I laughed, as Cal desperately wiped flecks of banana from his hair.
A polite cough came from the doorway and we looked up to see Amy smiling at us.
‘When you’re ready, we have several more rooms to do,’ she said, tapping her watch and disappearing back inside.
We peeled off our gloves and tossed them into the bin before following Amy, whereupon she proceeded to tell me all about the different types of bacteria found in a bathroom.
This year’s Christmas Ball had better be good.
Hey Flick, it’s Ethan. I got your number from Sky, hope that’s OK. When are you free for the vlog?
Hey! That would be amazing! Um, I’m grounded forever, so it would have to be in a few weeks. Unless you came to the hotel and we recorded it here? X
Cool. Will let you know
Hey Grace, are you busy?
Hey! No, not busy. Watching a film with Olly. It’s boring. He always gets to pick
Can I ask you something? If a guy texts you but doesn’t put any kisses at the end . . . do you think that’s important? Just out of interest
HAS ETHAN DUKE TEXTED YOU?
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Grace. Focus
Right. Sure. Um, no I don’t think that really means anything. Olly never puts any kisses at the end of his texts
Yeah but he’s your brother
That’s a good point. You want me to ask him if he puts kisses at the end of his texts to other people?
NO
Oh. OK. I won’t ask him
You’ve asked him, haven’t you
No
