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promises.
    Jess didn’t seem to be enjoying herself quite so much. ‘Maybe I could be a plain clothes fairy-detective,’ she suggested, looking down at the fairy dress she was wearing. ‘I’m just going to trip over all the time in this thing.’
    But Elly insisted that it was better if she was dressed as a fairy. Then she made Jess stand still while she turned her hair into a mass of tiny little curls.
    â€˜This is how fairies wear their hair at parties,’ Elly explained. Then she pinned on the wing protectors and stepped back to look at Jess. Elly couldn’t help laughing. ‘You look exactly like a fairy!’ she said. ‘Just a very grumpy one.’
    â€˜I feel stupid,’ said Jess.
    Elly shrugged. ‘Sometimes you have to do stuff like this when you’re a detective,’ she said.
    The Hover-Lamp tried to follow them as they left. Elly put it firmly back on the bedside table. ‘Sorry,’ she said, ‘but I think a flying, flashing lamp might just blow our cover.’
    The lamp blinked its lights and made a whiny noise. But Elly insisted. ‘Stay!’ said Elly, closing the door carefully behind them.
    Caitlin lived a couple of streets away so the girls rode there on Elly’s skateboard. Jess held on tight to Elly’s backpack.
    â€˜I hope no-one sees us,’ said Jess nervously.
    â€˜Don’t worry,’ said Elly. ‘We’ll be at the party soon and everyone will look just like we do.’

But the girls were in for a surprise. When they arrived at Caitlin’s house the first person they saw was Clarabelle. She was wearing jeans. She looked at Elly and Jess in surprise but before she could say anything Caitlin appeared. She was wearing jeans too and even more surprisingly, her t-shirt looked like it had an oil stain on it.
    Elly and Jess looked around. They were the only guests dressed as fairies.
    â€˜Hi, guys,’ said Caitlin. ‘Cool outfits!’
    Elly frowned. ‘Isn’t this a fairy party?’ she said. ‘I thought we had to dress up.’
    Caitlin smiled. ‘No,’ she said. ‘We just wear normal stuff. Those fairy outfits are too uncomfortable. And besides, they’d get dirty when we work on our inventions.’
    â€˜Inventions?’ Jess repeated.
    Caitlin nodded. ‘That’s the whole point of Fairy Club,’ she explained. ‘At the moment we’re working on how to make things fly.’
    Jess and Elly looked at each other. This was not how they had imagined Fairy Club at all.
    Caitlin saw their surprised expressions. ‘What did you think Fairy Club was about? Running around with wings waving wands?’ she said, laughing.
    Elly and Jess didn’t say anything because that was exactly what they had thought.
    â€˜We’re about to start work,’ said Caitlin. ‘Get something to eat from the table if you’re hungry.’ She pointed to a trestle table piled high with food. ‘It’s all fairy -type food,’ she said apologetically. ‘My mum thinks that’s what we should be eating at Fairy Club. She thinks we’re still little kids.’
    Elly and Jess went over to the table. ‘What is all this stuff?’ Elly asked Jess.
    She had never seen so much pink food in her life.
    Jess pointed to the different plates. ‘Those are fairy cakes. That’s fairy bread. And that stuff is fairy floss,’ she said.
    Elly peered closely at this last plate. ‘Fairy floss?’ she said. ‘That’s what we use to clean our teeth!’
    Caitlin’s mum had obviously spent a lot of time on the food. The fairy bread was cut into tiny stars, and the fairy cakes were decorated with hundreds of miniature sugar flowers. Elly and Jess chose a cake each and the sugar flowers dissolved on their tongues.
    â€˜Come on,’ said Jess. ‘Let’s go and join the others. I can’t wait to see what their flying