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Hiya, Frankie here. Wanna be a supermodel? Weâre having a photo shoot in the garden, as you can see. OK, so the flowerbeds arenât exactly a catwalk in Paris, but you canât have everything. As my gran always says, lifeâs what you make it.
Welcome to the latest Sleepover Club adventure. This one got pretty messy, I have to admit. Stinky, too. But hey â it all turned out seriously cool in the end. Go the Sleepover Club!
What do you mean, you donât know what the Sleepover Club is? You have got to be kidding! We are the top bonza babe gang in the whole of Cuddington, and probably the whole of the world too. The crazy sleepovers we have at each otherâs houses! The games, the food, the jokes! Our best mate code, which means we always stand up for each other! Oh, except when Fliss is blathering about something stoopid, when we all sit on her. Literally.
Letâs give you a quick rundown on our models today, then. We have Flissy Slidebottom prancing in from the side, mincing about like sheâs on hot sand. Donât tell her I told you her nickname â her real surnameâs Sidebotham, which isnât much better, is it? She thinks sheâs Claudia Schiffer, that one. But I donât think very much of her modelling style, do you? Flinging your arms and legs around doesnât work for the camera â you just come out in one big blur. FLISS!! Stand still a sec, will you?
You wouldnât believe how many costume changes Fliss has gone through today. Her sleepover kit bag was stuffed so full of clothes this weekend that she couldnât fit in any sensible stuff at all. Guess whose toothpaste sheâs had to borrow? As you probably know by now, Flisspot has the biggest wardrobe in town. She and her mum are dead keen on clothes and the latest fashions. Canât really see what the fuss is about myself. Who wants to dress like everyone else?
Kenny the Football Queenâs just as bad at this modelling business. How am I supposed to snap her when sheâs flinging herself about like sheâs scoring some mega-header for Leicester City, Iâd like to know? She keeps charging out of the shrubbery with this really ferocious expression on her face. Do some action shots Frankie, she begs me. Well, Iâm doing my best, but if she comes out all weird sheâs only got herself to blame.
Rosieâs got the right idea. She knows how to stand still for more than half a second at a time. Give us a grin, Rosie-Posie! OK, so sheâs not so good at grinning to order. No Rosie, a GRIN, not a death stare! You look like Emma Poos Hughes sucking up to Mrs Weaver with that fake smile all over your face. Hey, do us a favour and pull a gruesome face at Rosie to make her smile, will you? Thatâs better! Rosie is the original grumpy-chops. Getting her to laugh is sometimes like getting Kenny to sit still. Totally impossible.
And here comes Lyndz, galloping across the lens. Animal crackers, this girl. I suppose thatâs an invisible horse sheâs whacking. Itâs going to look pretty dumb in a photo, but thereâs no point telling her that. More action shots! I wish I was just taking photos of my cute baby sister, Izzy. She canât move around much yet, and sheâs beginning to smile in the most adorable way. Kenny, who wants to be a doctor like her dad, reckons she knows all about babies, and insists that Izzyâs just got wind. But Iâm Izzyâs sister, so I know sheâs trying to smile at me! I still canât quite believe that Iâve got a kid sister. Itâs totally the best thing ever.
What, you wanna know more about me? Well, I look like a beanpole and I wear some crazy stuff sometimes. You canât miss me, actually. The others think Iâm kind of the leader of the gang â but donât tell them I said that, âcos theyâll only think I sound big-headed. Oh, and the most interesting thing about me at the moment is that Iâve just got a kid sister! Oh, I already told you that, didnât I. The others are always banging on about how much I talk about Izzy. Sorry!
Donât you just lurve cameras? The snaps, the laughs, the bit when the film finally gets developed and you see what you really look like? I think I always look stupid because my legs are so long and stringy, and my hair just flops like a pancake on my head. But the others say Iâm very photogenic. Theyâre probably just being nice because theyâre my mates, but that stuffâs always cool to hear.
Weâre seriously into photography at the moment. Apart from the fact that weâve got a bunch of right little show-offs in the Sleepover Club who just lurve posing about for shots, itâs down to this camera that the M&MsâYou remember our total worst enemies the M&Ms, Emma Hughes and Emily Berryman, donât you? Bet you wish you could forget them! Well, letâs just say this camera means that the M&Ms wonât be bothering us for a while. You could say theyâve got too much egg on their facesâ¦