(This may be confusing at first, but all may be revealed.)
Today I woke up in my bed, thinking about the things I could do, as my mother hadn’t laid my book out by the side of the blue-painted walls. The only book I could see in my room was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone from a few days ago when playing a game with my sister, so I re-read it (I had already read it about a year ago) and waited for my mother to open the door.
When she did, she smiled and sat next to me on my bed.
“We’re going to a castle we haven’t been to yet in London today,” she said.
“In the train?” I asked. “I love the train.”
“Unfortunately not. But there’ll still be the view you like out of the windows of the car, and it may be pretty much all the same in a car then a train.”
I sighed. At least we were still going somewhere, just maybe not inside the train. My mother ushered me out of bed, where I climbed out, got dressed, ate breakfast and waited for the screaming of my mother saying, “I can’t find my purse!” When it came, I ran into the lounge.
“That was just the purpose of you getting here, Lavinia,” my mother told me. “I told you a bit of lie, Lavinia, earlier. In fact, we’re not going to the castle. We’re going to your favourite theme park, Chessington!”
With these words packed inside my lungs, I almost screeched.
“Does Tilly [my sister] know?” I asked.
“No, and I want you not to tell her, but she does know about the whole castle thing, so yes, don’t spoil it.” My mother told me, so I smiled and tried not to spoil the secret.
In the car, it took us about an hour to get to the theme park, but at the end, when we were in the carpark, Tilly had believed everything about no Chessington involved. Finally, she gave away the whole thing.
“Is there a theme park at this castle? I saw a sign saying so.” She told us.
“There might be, but we’re not going to it, and it’ll be small, anyway,” me and mother assured the astonished sister.
“But I saw Chessington, Mummy!” My mother smiled, almost laughing, but never tried to give away the whole secret of the day.
“YOU LIED TO ME!” my sister screeched, but we just giggled.
“It was a white lie, Tilly,” I said, laughing louder.
“Oh, really,” Tilly said, and pretended to cry.
“You actually fooled for it!” I laughed. Tilly began laughing too, and we hugged each other.
***
“Girls, girls, calm down!” my mother yelled to the back of the car, as we snapped quiet. Then my mother jolted the car to a stop and clasped her hand around her face.
“What-what?” Tilly said in a happy voice. But I lunged forwards, almost crying in distress. “De-what-what?” Tilly kept saying.
“Mummy,” I said unhappily. “You forgot our Blue Peter Badges and Cards, did you not?”
“I’m so sorry, girls,” my mother replied, nodding worriedly. “We’re going to have to quit the whole Chessington thing. No rides. No f-f-fun. No no-o-o-thing.”
I felt a ting of surprise and just leap into me. I was about to scream.
“That’s it,” my mother said. Me and Tilly waited for it. “Yes! That’s what I’ll do! I’ll show the lady an emailed picture of them to prove we have ‘em!”
***
Finally, we were let in, and started screaming on twisty, turny, downy-uppy rides (Dragon’s Fury, the best one, the largest Pirate Ship, Scorpion, Vampire and many others). It was amazing! The Vampire and the Dragon’s Fury one drew the best. When we came home, I was SO happy!
