As long as I managed to not ruin it all, and get us a venue.
And I had almost no time to sort it out.
CHAPTER
13
TO DO:
•Find a venue! **URGENT PRIORITY****
•Get shortbread for Mum and Bil
•Stop Dad buying more novelty ties/kilt/ mini bagpipes
•Make 195 snowflakes
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Mmm, pillows, soo soft.
Mmmmm, air smells of cookies.
Mmm. In not much more than a week we’ll be counting up how much we’ve raised from Grampy G’s Grotto.
My eyes pinged open. I shot up in bed.
It was pitch black but I was instantly wide awake, like snow had been dunked on my head.
Grampy G’s Grotto was almost here! I HAD to sort the venue TODAY. Sundays were notorious for lots of things happening, right?
I just needed to wake up!
Embrace the day!
Get in a positive mindset!
I checked my phone.
One message on my netball team group and one from the girl I sat next to in music.
Both saying the same thing.
They’d seen Sleigh Another Day last night. And then done a deep dive, and seen a photo on the fan account, SleighAllTheDaysFans. And was Little Elf Girl me?!
I replied with the only thing I could.
ME: lol
This was a disaster – “lol” couldn’t protect me for ever.
People in my real life were starting to suspect my big secret.
I crashed back on to my bed and rolled face first into the big pillow.
Whyyyyy did there have to be three more days left of term? If one person at school suspected, that meant soon everyone could.
Which would be RIP life as I knew it.
Au revoir to being in The POWR.
Hello to having “ring your jingle bell!” or “believe in your-elf!” shouted at me across the street, and being the butt of every joke about gnomes, elves, and anything small and green. People weren’t fussy when it came to laughing at me.
Surely it shouldn’t be OK to get this much bad news before … 7 a.m.
Grace was fast asleep, her “Sleep Mode” eye mask pulled down. Well, fast asleep except for murmuring something that sounded like … Carry? Larry?…
OMG. Harry!!
Was Grace dreaming about Harry?
She was definitely dream-smiling. And now she was dream-laughing. So loud she woke herself up.
And now she was not-dream blinking at me.
“Tell me it’s not time to get up?” She rubbed her eyes, her mask pushed up.
“It isn’t.” I climbed out of bed. “But I am. Going to get us brekkie.” I wanted to make full use of Oh Crumbs! doing free breakfast for hotel guests. “Requests?”
