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window, and Misty scrambled up the trunk to a branch, then jumped on to the window sill. She could see Amy, and two other people, laughing and eating.
    The food smelled delicious. She mewed, hoping that Amy would see her and let her in. But the man sitting closest to the window was the one who stood up and came to look.

    “It’s a cat!” He laughed. “A little black kitten. Come and see, Amy.”
    Amy jumped as she saw Misty, accidentally knocking her glass of juice off the table. It smashed on the floor, and the woman got up with a sigh.
    Misty leaped back on to the branch, hiding in the gathering darkness, and watching as they cleared up the mess. She wished she was in there with them, but Amy had seemed upset to see her and she didn’t know why. Misty watched for a while, until Amy disappeared and the lights went off. Then she pattered sadly down the garden and back up into the tree house. But this time she didn’t sleep on the beanbag. She curled up on the hoodie top instead. It smelled of Amy.

    “Mum came up to the tree house and nearly saw Misty last night!” Amy told Lily before school on Friday morning. “I had to throw my hoodie on top of her, poor thing! And then she was suddenly there at the window, and Dad saw her!” She sighed. “It’s fun having a secret kitten, but I wish I didn’t have to hide her all the time. It would be so nice to be able to take her inside, too. I’d love her to sleep on my bed, like Stella does with you.”
    “It is nice,” Lily admitted. “She keeps my toes toasty. Do you think your mum and dad really wouldn’t let you keep her?”
    Amy shook her head thoughtfully. “I just don’t know. I’ve begged for a kitten for so long – if they were goingto let me have one, wouldn’t they have given in by now? I can’t see them changing their minds.”
    “But she’s so cute!”
    “Maybe I should tell them all about Misty. But what if they make me take her to a cat shelter?” Amy shuddered at the thought.
    Even so, she couldn’t stop imagining how lovely it would be to curl up and sleep with her own little kitten. She just had to think of a way…

    “This is brilliant!” Lily said excitedly, as she laid out her sleeping bag on the floor of the tree house. “I’m so glad Mum agreed I could stay over. Do youreally think Misty will come and sleep with us too?”
    “I think she spends the night here sometimes now. I tried brushing all the cat hairs off the beanbag last night, and there were more this morning. So she must have been here…”
    Amy had come up with the sleepover plan at school, and the girls had begged their mums to let them do it that Saturday. Lily’s mum had been a bit worried that they would be cold, but she’d agreed in the end, when Lily reminded her about the special sleeping bags they’d bought to go camping. She even had a spare one for Amy!
    “This is even better than camping! Oh, I do hope Misty comes,” Lily saidexcitedly, as she clambered into her sleeping bag.
    Amy nodded, glancing over at the window from her sleeping bag. It was too dark to see much – especially a black kitten. Misty had spent the afternoon in the tree house, but she’d run off when Amy started to move things around to get ready for the sleepover.

    They chatted for ages by the light of their torches, but they kept yawning as it grew later and later.
    “I don’t think she’s going to come,” Amy said sadly, when she looked at her watch and discovered it was ten o’clock.
    “Never mind.” Lily gave her a hug. “It’s a brilliant sleepover anyway. Maybe we’ll see her in the morning.”
    Amy nodded, but she did feel disappointed. And as Lily yawned more and more, and then drifted off to sleep, she felt lonely too. The wind was blowing and she could hear the creak of the branches. It seemed to shake the tree house more at night, although she didn’t see why it would. Amy lay there with her torch making a circle on the ceiling, worrying about Misty.Where