Puppy Love
Page 7
‘Honey is MY puppy, not April’s!’ I cried.
‘Oh,’ said Nick Harris.
‘Yes,’ I said in a firm and stern tone, ‘April only pretended Honey was hers so that she could get to meet you properly after she saw you in town and liked you and found out where you worked.’
Mum stepped in to De-Fuse the Tension at this point, except she obviously couldn’t think of a funny jokey way to do it so she just said, ‘All’s well that ends well,’ which was pretty lame, I thought. ‘Nick and April are together, and April will leave you and Honey to it from now on, I’m sure,’ Mum added.
Luckily Nick seemed to think that Mum had actually told a hilarious joke anyway – either that or he was good at playing along at the whole De-Fusing the Tension idea – so he laughed. And then April laughed. And then, bizarrely, I started to see the funny side of the whole embarrassing Beard-Puppy-Confusion-Love-Story thing, and I laughed too.
Since that very day, Nick and April have continued to be NAUSEATINGLY loved-up. And this is very fine by me, as Honey is now totally and absolutely again, and I must admit that I am quite loved-up with her too. Although not nauseatingly so. At least, I don’t think so. And Molly comes round all the time and is Second-in-Command with everything to do with Honey. Even though I know she would prefer to be First-in-Command.
So that’s the story of how my wish came true and I got my Puppy Love and how my sister nearly wrecked my wish by claiming my puppy as her own while behaving totally weirdly and frankly mega-embarrassingly . . . But how she, in the end, got her love too!
Also by Anna Wilson
Pup Idol
Puppy Power
Kitten Kaboodle
Coming soon
Kitten Smitten
And chosen by Anna Wilson
Fairy Stories
Princess Stories
To Arvon, May 2007,
for inspiration and a lot o’ larfs
Anna Wilson, who is the actual author of this book, was never that fond of dogs. She was always a definite cat-type person. So she got two black cats called Ink and Jet and thought that would be that in the Pet Department of her life. But then the dog-type person she was married to (called David) decided that enough was enough and it was time he Had His Way For A Change, and the two children (called Lucy and Thomas) said that actually they thought dogs were quite a good idea too. So Anna Wilson sighed heavily and said she supposed she would have to Give In to the Whole Dog Idea.
That was when Kenna, the gorgeously soft, sweet and funny black Labrador puppy, came into her life and turned it inside out and upside down . . . With the entirely surprising result that Anna Wilson is now very definitely and quite simply a CAT-AND-DOG-TYPE PERSON!
Moira Munro, the illustrator of this book, is pitifully allergic to furry animals. It is a Terrible Tragedy not to have a pet to stroke. Luckily, Moira Munro does have a daughter (called Chloe) who is at least as snuggly as a Labrador pup. Children are easier to look after than puppies because you can attach a nappy to them. Children can also, after a few years, do your work for you. Moira Munro still owes Chloe £1.99 for writing out Summer and Molly’s list on page 56.
First published 2008 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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