‘Do you?’ Mel said in surprise. ‘But if it was then we wouldn’t have frosty mornings when it’s cold but the sun’s shining and we wouldn’t have snow.’

‘I guess,’ Lauren said. ‘And it’s fun going to indoor horse shows in the winter.’ She thought about her cousin, Hannah. ‘It never gets really cold in Florida, where Hannah lives.’

‘She’s arriving tomorrow afternoon, isn’t she?’ Jess said.

Lauren nodded. ‘She’s got a four-day weekend like we have with Monday and Friday off school. You’ll have to come round and meet her. I bet she’d really like to see Shadow and Sandy. She’s crazy about ponies.’ Shadow and Sandy were Mel and Jessica’s ponies.

‘Sounds like we’ll get on then,’ Jessica grinned.

‘Hey, I’ve had an idea!’ Mel exclaimed. ‘Why don’t we do a pony party to welcome her? We could get the ponies looking really great, make a banner and do food with a pony theme.’

‘Yeah!’ Lauren said, loving the idea. ‘It was Hannah’s birthday last week so we could make a cake too. I’m going to get her a present after school today.’

‘We could come over and get everything ready tomorrow morning before she arrives,’ Jessica suggested.

‘Cool!’ Lauren grinned round at her friends. This was going to be so much fun!

CHAPTER

Two

Mrs Foster picked Lauren up after school. ‘How was your day, honey?’ she asked as Lauren got into the car.

‘OK, thanks,’ Lauren said, dumping her school bag down by her feet. ‘I’ve got loads of homework though. I can’t believe the teachers have given us so much. We’ve only got two extra days at the weekend.’

‘You’d better get it done tonight before Hannah arrives tomorrow,’ her mum said. She began to drive to the shops. ‘Now, I thought we could buy her a book for her birthday. Shall we call in at Mrs Fontana’s bookshop?’

‘Oh yes,’ Lauren said eagerly. ‘I bet Mrs Fontana will suggest something good.’

Mrs Fontana was one of the few people in the world who knew about Twilight. She had once owned a secret unicorn too and when Lauren had first got Twilight, Mrs Fontana had given her an amazing old book called The Life of a Unicorn. It had lots of information about unicorns and the magic land they came from which was called Arcadia.

As Lauren thought about Mrs Fontana, she suddenly realized that she hadn’t seen her for a while. She began to work back in her head. It must be about six weeks since she’d last been into the bookshop or had met Mrs Fontana in the woods at night. Weird. When she had first got Twilight, they had always been searching Mrs Fontana out to ask her for advice on how to use his magic to best help people and other animals but now they seemed to be much better at working out how to use his magic themselves.