“You look gross!” laughed Fliss.
“Yeah! That’s why we got the ball so much at the end!” shrieked Rosie. “They probably thought you were the swamp monster or something!”
“I’m, hic, glad we didn’t have to, hic, play extra time,” Lyndz hiccuped. “I don’t think I could have held out.”
“You couldn’t have held out!” Fliss snorted. “Just think about how I felt with my sprained ankle! And I pulled off a blinding save too. Did you see? It hurt like anything, but I did it!”
Frankie and I exchanged glances – we were never going to hear the end of Fliss’s heroics. It didn’t help matters that when we had got changed and went back into the gym, most of the crowd were still there. They started cheering again as soon as they saw us.
“Let’s hear it for Sleepover Girls United!” shouted Mr Pownall. “Hip hip…”
“Hooray!” everybody shouted.
“Hip hip…”
“Hooray!” Even Ryan Scott was joining in, kind of reluctantly.
“Hip hip…”
“Hooray!” Mrs Poole was cheering, and so was my mum, Lyndz’s mum, Frankie’s mum and Fliss’s mum. Rosie’s mum appeared with Adam right at the last minute.
“I didn’t know you were all coming!” I stared at them open-mouthed.
“We didn’t tell you just in case we couldn’t make it!” Mum laughed. “Congratulations!”
“I’m so proud of you all!” Frankie’s mum looked as though she was about to cry and that wasn’t like her. It must have been because of the baby and everything. Pregnancy makes your hormones go funny, you know.
“Wait until we tell your brothers!” Lyndz’s mum was rubbing Lyndz’s hand to get rid of the hiccups.
“Oh my poor brave baby!” squeaked Fliss’s mum, examining Fliss’s ankle. “I’m going to get you home and look at this properly. I hope you haven’t damaged anything!” And with that Fliss was whisked away.
“It’s a wonder she didn’t run on to the pitch when Fliss fell down!” I mumbled.
“She tried to,” Mum said. “We had to stop her, didn’t we?”
Frankie and Rosie’s mums looked at each other and they all cracked up laughing. Parents, eh? You can’t take them anywhere!
After the match it was all a bit of an anticlimax really. We’d been building up to the competition for so long, and suddenly it was all over and we all felt a bit flat. Mrs Poole did call us out in assembly and everybody gave us a clap, but that was it. I wonder if footballers feel like this when they’ve won the FA Cup?
Look, the others are coming. We can give you an action replay of the whole match if you want. Fliss’s ankle has finally recovered now, so she’ll be able to show you how she dived to save that shot (she’s been boring us about that ever since!). And you’d better not get Rosie started about how she scored the winning goal, you’ll be here all night! Lyndz is dying for us to play in another match so that her brothers can come and watch. She says that they still don’t believe that she can really play football. And Frankie keeps reminding me that I owe her a big favour for getting the others involved in the five-a-side competition to start with. I mean, come on, we won didn’t we? Isn’t that favour enough? She says that it’s not exactly what she had in mind!
Now you just stay there and we’ll demonstrate our footballing skills for you. And don’t forget that:
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
Have you been invited to all these sleepovers?
The Sleepover Club at Frankie’s
The Sleepover Club at Lyndsey’s
The Sleepover Club at Felicity’s
The Sleepover Club at Rosie’s
The Sleepover Club at Kenny’s
Starring the Sleepover Club
The Sleepover Girls go Spice
The 24 Hour Sleepover Club
The Sleepover Club Sleeps Out
Happy Birthday, Sleepover Club
Sleepover Girls on Horseback
Sleepover in Spain
Sleepover on Friday 13th
Sleepover Girls at Camp
Sleepover Girls go Detective
Sleepover Girls go Designer
The Sleepover Club Surfs the Net
Sleepover Girls on Screen
Sleepover Girls and Friends
Sleepover Girls on the Catwalk
Sleepover Kit List
Sleeping bag
Pillow
Pyjamas or a nightdress
Slippers
Toothbrush, toothpaste, soap etc
Towel
Teddy
A creepy story
Torch
Hairbrush
Hair things like a bobble or hairband, if you need them
Clean knickers and socks
Change of clothes for the next day
Sleepover diary and membership card
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