Heart to Heart. Amber Aitken
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Название: Heart to Heart
Автор: Amber Aitken
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Детская проза
isbn: 9780007367931
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Nicks was huffing and puffing now and tapping her foot impatiently, but she clearly wasn’t quite ready to expire just yet. So Coral took one last dip into the basket and came up with a purple paisley bandanna. It would be perfect for Romeo. She gave a small joyful whoop and carried her final purchases over to the till where her box of Valentine decorations was still waiting. This had been her best shopping day ever!
The lady accepted Coral’s money with a gentle smile and was about to place the sunglasses, the scarf and the bandanna inside the box of decorations for easy carrying when Coral slipped the sunglasses from her grip and returned her smile.
“Thanks very much,” she said, “but I’ll be needing those.” She put the sunglasses on her nose and pushed them up as far as they would go. “C’mon, Nicks. C’mon, Romeo.” And then she swished out of the shop with the box of decorations hoisted under one arm like a very big trophy.
Nicks hurried after her, relieved to be leaving, but also a little confused by the sunglasses (although her best friend did have a strange sense of humour). Coral was outside and waiting on the pavement, still wearing the oversized glasses.
“Don’t you think you should take those things off now?” asked Nicks.
“Take them off? Whatever for?”
“Oh, please, stop being silly.”
“I am not being silly. All the celebs wear these. We’ll need to find you a pair too.”
Nicks groaned and made a choking sort of sound. “I don’t think so. They don’t even fit you properly.”
Coral tilted her head at a backwards angle and started walking, narrowly missing a large lamppost.
Nicks returned Romeo to the pavement and quickly caught up with her zigzagging friend. She was no longer feeling quite so tired.
“So how are the sunglasses working out for you then?” she asked with a smirk that was almost as big as her friend’s sunglasses.
“Great!” Coral looked awkward but determined. “They’re lovely,” she said, almost smacking straight into a postbox. She held on to the box of Valentine decorations even tighter. Nicks decided it was wiser not to even ask what she planned to do with those. It looked like her best friend just needed to focus all of her concentration on getting home safely!
Coral had got Nicks to promise she would be at her house at nine the next morning, and now Coral was counting on it — literally. There was a small clock on her bedside table that she was watching, its two heart-shaped hands edging forward.
“Coral, Nicks is here!” her mum called up from the kitchen.
“Send her to my bedroom, please!” Coral hollered back.
“Must you all shout to one another?” her father called from the study.
“Sorry!” both Coral and her mum cried in unison.
And then Nicks’s head appeared round the bedroom door. “Wowzers,” she breathed out loud.
“Isn’t it brilliant!” Coral grinned.
Nicks stepped inside the bedroom. There were pink padded hearts tied with ribbon to cupboard handles, lamps and the bed frame. The ceiling was alive with swirling hearts and dangling cupids. The banner across the wall above her bed spelled out: I LOVE YOU and strings of red and silver foiled hearts dipped from corner to corner. There were even bunches of balloons tied to the bedposts and red hearts stuck to the windows. The finishing touch was the fake rose petals scattered across the carpet. Nicks swished through them like autumn leaves, noticing Romeo’s face poking out from under the bed.
“It’s certainly very Valentiney,” Nicks commented. Even if it wasn’t that time of year. But she didn’t say the last bit out loud.
“It’s a room dedicated to love and romance,” said Coral excitedly. “Can you think of anything nicer!” It wasn’t a question, and Nicks knew better than to answer.
Nicks gazed around the room with her hands on her hips and grinned. “It is lovely!”
Coral reached for her heart-shaped backpack and pulled out the giant tortoiseshell sunglasses. “Shall we get going then? Romeo could do with a paddle in the sea. It’s going to be a hot one.”
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