Buried Alive! by Jacqueline Wilson Read Free Book Online

cranes.’
    Kelly’s mum’s boyfriend Dave had given her a whole purseful of change. She inserted a coin and started twiddling.
    She was
ace
.
    In a matter of minutes Theresa Troll had a whole tribe of relations: Tracy Troll and Truman Troll and Tabitha Troll and Tyrone Troll and Tilly Troll and Trocadero Troll. Biscuits and Dad and Mum heard Kelly’s triumphant crowing as she kept capturing yet another troll. They came over to watch.
    Then Kelly’s mum and Kelly’s mum’s boyfriend Dave and Kelly’s little brother Dean and her baby brother Keanu came and watched too. It got very crowded. I’d have died if everyone was watching me. It didn’t put Kelly off a bit.
    Then all the grown-ups started talking and Kelly’s mum’s new boyfriend Dave got introduced. He had the most amazing tattoos all the way up his arms. Snakes and flowers and hearts and a lady in a bikini. He could make her waggle when he moved his muscle.He showed Biscuits and me and we thought it cooler than cool. We kept wanting him to do it, but Mum gave me a sharp nudge and told me not to keep pestering. She didn’t say much else. Kelly’s mum said lots and lots. Dad did too.
    â€˜I just can’t get over the coincidence of you being here on holiday too!’ he said. ‘I mean, Llanpistyll and Abercoch are such out of the way places.’
    â€˜It was our Kelly. She looked them up on the map, she did, and said she just
knew
Llanpistyll would be great. And so we made sure there was a caravan site – and here we are.’
    â€˜Oh, you’re staying at the caravan site,’ said Mum.
    â€˜Don’t tell me you are too!’ said Kelly’s mum, laughing and flipping her pony-tail.
    Kelly’s mum is ever so like Kelly. Only more glittery.
    â€˜Oh no! No, we’re staying at the Gwesty Bryn Nodfa. It’s a very nice quiet family hotel,’ said Mum.
    â€˜Poor you,’ said Kelly. ‘It’s ever such fun down the caravan site. We’ve got our
own
amusement arcade and there’s swings and all sorts.’
    â€˜Yes, it’s great for the kiddies,’ said Kelly’smum’s boyfriend Dave. ‘They can amuse themselves. And we can amuse
our
selves.’
    â€˜You must come over. Come now!’ Kelly said.
    â€˜Can we, Mum?’ I said.
    â€˜Oh no, dear. No, we’re going to look at another castle,’ Mum said quickly.
    â€˜Then come for tea,’ said Kelly.
    â€˜Ooh, let’s,’ said Biscuits.
    â€˜No, I’m sorry, we have our evening meal at our hotel,’ said Mum.
    â€˜
Supper
, then,’ said Kelly.
    â€˜Please!’ I said.
    â€˜Double please with knobs on,’ said Biscuits.
    Mum opened her mouth. It was already in a firm No shape. But guess what!
    â€˜
Yes
,’ said Dad. ‘Yes, we’d love to.’
    â€˜But we won’t have finished our meal till seven at the earliest,’ said Mum. ‘And then the boys should really be in bed by half-past seven.’
    â€˜You go to bed at half-past
seven
?’ said Kelly. ‘I don’t go to bed till twelve sometimes, isn’t that right, Mum?’
    â€˜We go to bed
later
than that,’ said Dean.
    â€˜And this little monkey stays up
all
night sometimes,’ said Kelly’s mum, picking up Keanu and giving him a little toss in the air.Keanu squealed and drool came out of his mouth and dripped down onto Kelly’s mum.
    â€˜You little whatsit!’ she said. ‘Are you spitting at your mum, eh? I’ll give you what for.’ She tossed him up in the air again and he squealed and slurped again.
    Biscuits and I watched in appalled fascination.
    â€˜I don’t really reckon babies,’ said Biscuits.
    â€˜Me too,’ I said.
    â€˜Me
three
,’ said Kelly. ‘You try living with one all the time. So – you’re coming round to the site, right?’
    It was all agreed.
    Mum was narked and