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turned out to be Millie’s dad Johnny and James, her brother.
    “Well done, Daisy,” said Johnny, as he clipped the lead rope on to Charm’s head collar. We walked along together, with Johnny’s torch lighting the way and Johnny leading Charm. “If it wasn’t for you girls he could have been out here all night, running loose and maybe getting hurt,” he added. “Although I think Jody will want to know exactly what you were doing out here.”

    My stomach did a big flip then, as I wondered just how much trouble we were in!
    Johnny and James walked me to the door of the farmhouse, and then they headed off up to the field to put Charm back. When I went into the kitchen all the girls were sitting round the big table having their hot chocolate. Isabel and Rosie looked relieved to see me, and Brooke said, “Oh, Daisy, thanks so much for finding Charm – he could have been badly hurt!”
    But Jody turned round from the pan she was stirring on the stove and raised her eyebrows at me. “I’m so sorry,” I blurted out. “Please don’t blame Isabel and Rosie. Going out there was all my idea.”

    “What on earth were you thinking?” Jody demanded. I blushed. It all sounded a bit silly now.
    “Isabel was sure she’d seen a ghost,”I muttered, “and I just thought we should have a look. We were going to ask, but you were on the phone and we waited for ages, and we only meant to be out there for a minute so…”
    Jody frowned. “Do you understand you’re never to leave this house like that again without telling me?” she asked. “And the same goes for you too, Isabel and Rosie?”
    She looked really cross and we all nodded miserably and said sorry again.

    “I mean it, not even if you thought you saw a pink elephant juggling fire sticks,” she added, smiling a little. Phew! So she wasn’t too cross after all. Well, she was, but she knew we’d got the message. Then Johnny and James came in and told us that Charm had somehow managed to get the gate to the field open, and if it hadn’t been for us then all the ponies could have been wandering round in the dark all night.Jody said well done to us three then, for stopping a serious accident from happening (though she did tell us again that we should never have gone out by ourselves in the first place!).
    We got our hot chocolate after that, and everyone wanted to hear the whole story, so we told them all the details. Isabel and Rosie wouldn’t stop going on about how scared they were and how brave I was – well, I didn’t think it was that big a deal, but everyone else seemed to!

    When we were all in bed and the lights had been out for a while, Isabel and I crept into Rosie’s bunk, and hung our towels down to make a secret camp. We got out our stash of sweets and started to tuck in. And that’s when I found myself telling them how I feel about the display. I wasn’t planning to, but it just came out. Somehow, after everything, I felt really close to them, and it was easier whispering it in the dark than saying it out loud in the daytime. I told them all about how frustrating it was not being able to get the hang of the moves, and how bad I felt for letting Dancer down by being so nervous when I should have been leading her. “Maybe I should pull out of the display altogether, tell Jody I’m ill or something, and you two can do it without me,” I said. “I don’t mind, honestly. I just don’t want to spoil it for you by being rubbish.”
    “Absolutely no way,” Rosie whispered. “It’s one for all and all for one!”
    “I wish you’d told us all this sooner,” said Isabel. “I feel awful now, like we’ve made you do things you weren’t confident about. If anything, we’ve spoilt it for you .”
    “Of course you haven’t!” I insisted. “I don’t blame you two. I’m just really relieved you’re not upset with me .”

    They absolutely promised they weren’t, and Isabel gave me her last drumstick lolly to prove it, even though