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get some fresh air for five minutes, Emily, that’s fine,” said Mrs. Pridham. “But only five minutes, mind, and take someone with you now it’s dark.”
    â€œI’ll come with you,” said Bryony straight away.
    â€œI’m going to the internet room to e-mail my parents,” I said to the others.
    â€œAlso I,” said Antonia. Then she shot me a quick look. “Me too.”
    I smiled at her but she wasn’t looking, and I so wished she had been because then I could have shown her I hadn’t been correcting her when she’d said Also I the last time. We walked along the corridor together and I was just wondering how to start a conversation with her when her phone rang, and she stopped in the middle of the corridor and began talking really quickly in Italian. So I went into the internet room on my own and wrote an e-mail to Mum and Dad, sending it to their two separate addresses. Then I wrote a short one to Clemmie and Clare. It only took me about ten minutes altogether and I expected to see Antonia still in the corridor when I left the room, but she wasn’t there, so I made my way up to the dorm.
    â€œNicole, look!” said Sasha as soon as I opened the door. “We’re all sorting out our clothes for the party next weekend.” I didn’t want to look, but Sasha had shut the door behind me and was pulling me over to her bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Antonia looking through her cupboard.
    I climbed Sasha’s ladder and saw what she’d laid out. There was a pair of black leggings with buttons down the sides, an amazing-looking crinkly pink and purple dress with a swirly pattern, and a very wide black shiny belt with a huge buckle.
    â€œI haven’t decided about my jewellery yet,” she said, grinning at me as I got back down the ladder with shaky legs. “What are you going to wear, Nicole?”
    â€œEr…I’m not sure, really… Where are Bryony and Emily?”
    â€œThey haven’t been in to the dorm at all,” said Sasha. “Maybe they went to the common room.”
    â€œThey must have come back in by now,” said Izzy, looking at her watch. “It’s nearly time for bed. Do you want to see what I’m wearing for the party, Nicole?”
    â€œWell, actually, I’m just going to find Emily and Bryony,” I mumbled as I turned to the door. But before I went out I caught a glimpse of what Antonia had hung up on the end of her bed on a hanger, and it was the most stunning outfit I thought I’d ever seen. It was a strappy dress that came in at the waist and had a very full skirt that looked as if it would swirl out when she walked. It was in the most gorgeous dark red and black colours.
    My heart sank as I trudged back down to the common room. I still had no idea what I was going to wear. I’d only got plain black trousers, and they weren’t even particularly silky or anything. And now that I’d seen Sasha’s and Antonia’s clothes, my best top just looked really dreary and boring, even though I used to love it. Another problem was that my jewellery consisted of one thin chain necklace and a pair of silver earrings.
    Even though I hadn’t seen what Izzy was planning on wearing, I guessed it would be something just as amazing as Sasha’s and Antonia’s outfits. Somehow I couldn’t imagine Emily and Bryony wanting to dress up quite so much, but all the same, I wasn’t going to risk asking them, because I was scared of finding I was wrong. I suppose it was obvious they’d have something suitable in their wardrobes, because who would dream of coming away to a lovely boarding school like Silver Spires without taking any special party clothes? I was really cross with myself for being so stupid that I hadn’t asked Mum for just one dress.
    By Wednesday, I found out that I’d been put in top sets for maths, science and English. I was