dare!â
âYes!â cried Emma and Elle together.
It was Emmaâs turn first. She chose truth. She knew she could trust her besties with anything.
âWhat are you really scared of?â asked Elle.
âThatâs easy,â replied Emma. âThe dark, but not so much anymore, spiders and horses.â
âHorses?â cried Isi, surprised. âWhy didnât we know that and why? Horses are beautiful!â
âNot so much horses,â explained Emma, âbut riding them.â
âBut you donât ride, do you?â asked Elle.
âNo, and thatâs why,â explained Emma. âMum says I got really freaked out when I went on a pony ride at a kinder fete and perhaps it started there. I love the idea of riding, you know how much I love animals, but there is just something about it. Okay, Is, your turn. Truth or dare?â
Isi, unsurprisingly, chose dare.
âHmmm, letâs think,â said Emma, smiling at Elle. âWhatâs something really embarrassing Is can do?â
âBRB,â said Isi.
âThatâs it, I know,â cried Elle. âIs, when you go to the toilet, you have to leave the door open!â
âNo way!â cried Isi.
âYou chose dare, Is,â said Elle.
âBut â¦â started Isi. âOh well, NB.â
âWhat?â
âNo biggie!â
Isi walked up the corridor and into the toilet. The girls checked the door was still open and giggled.
Within seconds, Bob and Otto come out of Bobâs bedroom. Beret barked and Emma rushed to the door.
âJust going to the bathroom,â said Bob with a funny smile on his face.
Otto started to laugh.
âNo, you canât ⦠I mean ⦠ISI!â yelled Emma.
They heard the toilet flush and Isi came out, blushing.
âPhew, that was close,â said Emma.
âI think Iâll stick with truth next time,â said Isi.
âCome on, letâs watch a DVD,â said Elle.
The girls went to the living room and chose a DVD. When they came back to the bedroom, Emma pulled the midnight feast bag out again.
âHey, I thought we bought raspberry bullets,â she said.
âWe did, didnât we?â replied Elle.
âTheyâre not here,â said Emma sifting through the bag.
âWeird. Oh well, whatever,â said Isi. âLetâs start the watch-a-thon!â
The girls spent the rest of the evening watching episodes of their favourite TV Show, Undercover Girls , eating lollies, talking and laughing until, finally, late in the nightâor more exactly early in the morningâthey all fell asleep.
It was only then that the small black remote-controlled car with its red flashing light reversed out of Emmaâs room and drove down the corridor into Bobâs bedroom, running over an empty raspberry bullet bag.
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After dinner on Sunday evening, when Elle and Isi had gone home, a rather tired Emma was cleaning her room, sort of. Pip and Beret werenât helping. They were playing a tug-o-war with one of Emmaâs socks.
âHey, let go!â she cried, prising the sock from Beretâs surprisingly sharp little teeth. Emma lay down on the doonas and cuddled the little puppy. âIâm pretty sure spy dogs donât eat socks.â
âAnd you need to get off that bed, Emma! Youâre supposed to be making it, not sleeping on it,â said her mum as she walked into the room.
âIâm too tired to tidy up,â groaned Emma.
âYou werenât too tired to stay up all night watching TV and playing truth or dare,â rebuked her mum.
That woke Emma up. âHow did you know that we were playing truth or dare?â she asked.
âOh, Bob mentioned it in the car on the way to footy this morning.â
âBob? But how did he know?â
âI donât know,â said Emmaâs mum as she left with some dirty plates. âYou were playing it though,