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Fifi is coming to stay

That afternoon Jamie lay on the sofa cuddling Fungi. He rested his head on her tummy and gazed at her adoringly. When he behaved he was the most perfect dog that ever lived.

Unfortunately he had developed a liking for underwear. Jamie thought her mother’s were bad enough. But what Fungi really liked were men’s underpants, especially if they were dirty. He’d stolen her father’s from the washing basket, and yesterday she’d found him chewing up Toby’s sad grey briefs. He would have liked Tick’s too, but Tick never changed his underpants.

“Why do you have to be so disgusting?” she said, fondling his fluffy ears. “You’re as bad as Toby. We’re going to train you, aren’t we? You’re going to win the Best Behaved Dog Competition. Mrs Jones is going to shake hands with us both – you’ll be able to shake hands on command then – and she’ll say, ‘Any girl who can train a dog so efficiently is a Natural Born Leader and deserves to be head girl of the junior school. Well done, Jamie Waine. You are an example to others’.”

“Ah, here you are,” Arabella said, coming into the lounge. Arabella looked like she had something bad to say. Jamie’s heart sank.

“Jamie love, now I don’t want you to get all upset and grumpy,” she said, holding up her hands like a traffic cop stopping a car, “but Aunt Sylvia has just called …”

“Aw, no, Mom, please!” shouted Jamie. “No way! Don’t tell me Fleaflea is coming to stay! No way!”

“Now, Jamie,” said Arabella, trying to sound soothing, but ending up sounding a little hysterical. “I said, don’t get all grumpy. And don’t you dare call her Fleaflea when she’s here. It’s Felicity or Fifi. And she’s only coming for a week while her mother goes on a poetry conference.”

“A week!” stormed Jamie. “It may as well be a lifetime, it’s so awful! Why don’t you just shoot me now and put me out of my misery?”

She stomped off back to her room and slammed her door as hard as she could.

Her irritating, whiny cousin, Fleaflea, was coming for a WHOLE week.

She needed to speak to Pandora ASAP. This was an emergency. They needed to make a plan to get rid of her.