Chapter 2

Chapter TWO BRRRRRINGGGG! I jumped awake to the sound of my alarm. Sun was shining through the curtains. I rolled over in bed and felt something sticky on my pillow. What was it? 'Eww!' I yelped, sitting up in bed and staring in horror at the puddle of purple

第二章呜呜呜！我被闹钟的声音惊醒了。 阳光透过窗帘照进来。 我在床上翻了个身，感觉枕头上有黏糊糊的东西。 是什么？“恶!”我尖叫着，从床上坐起来，惊恐地盯着紫色的水坑

goop on my pillow. Strings of it were clinging on to my hair. Some of the potion ingredients must have spilt out of their bottles in the night and got mixed up in the wrong way! 'Oh no!' I said. 'Mum's going to be cross. She told me to put my potion kit away.'

粘在我的枕头上。一串一串的粘在我的头发上。 一定是有一些药剂的成分在夜里从瓶子里洒出来，混在一起了！“哦,不!”我说。 “妈妈会生气的。她叫我把药箱收起来。”

Hurriedly, I jumped out of bed and covered my pillow with the duvet. I put the cauldron and bottles down on the floor just as I heard Mum approaching my bedroom. 'Good morning, Mirabelle,' she said, poking her head into my room. 'Breakfast in ten minutes or you'll be late for school. Why have you got your witch's hat on already?' 'I umm... wanted to see what it would look like with my pyjamas!' I gabbled.

我赶紧跳下床，在枕头上盖上羽绒被。 我把坩埚和瓶子放在地板上，这时我听到妈妈走近我的卧室。 “早上好，米拉贝尔，”她说着，把头伸进我的房间。 “十分钟后吃早饭，不然你上学要迟到了。” 你怎么已经戴上女巫的帽子了？“我嗯……” 想看看它穿上我的睡衣会是什么样子！”我急促。

'I just need to have a shower!' Then I shot past Mum and out into the corridor, running as fast as I could towards the bathroom with Violet flapping along beside me. As soon as I got into the bathroom I slammed the door shut and took off the hat. Purple goop dripped off my hair and it was all clumpy and gross and sticky.

“我只是需要洗个澡！”然后，我飞快地从妈妈身边跑过，跑到走廊上，以最快的速度向浴室跑去，维奥莱特在我身边拍打着翅膀。 我一进浴室就砰地关上了门，摘下了帽子。 紫色的浆糊从我的头发上滴下来，又粗又粘。

'Urgh!' I said as I hopped into the shower and turned it on. It took ages to wash all the goo out. By the time my hair was clean and dried I was late down to breakfast. 'Mirabelle,' said Mum. 'You're going to be late for school!' 'I just like to be super clean,' I said, hurrying over to the cereal cupboard. 'Where are the rose petal fairy flakes?' 'Wilbur finished them this morning,' said Mum. 'You'll have to have some of my batwing porridge instead. It's in the saucepan on the stove.' 'What?' I gasped. 'There's no time to make anything

“呃! !”我边说边跳进浴室，打开了淋浴器。 花了很长时间才把这些浆糊洗掉。 等我的头发洗干净晾干后，我已经赶不上吃早饭了。 “米拉贝尔，”妈妈说。“你上学要迟到了！”“我只是喜欢超级干净，”我说着，匆匆走向麦片橱柜。 “玫瑰花瓣仙花在哪里？”“威伯今天早上吃完了，”妈妈说。 “你还是喝点我的蝙蝠粥吧。 在炉子上的平底锅里。“什么?”我喘息着说道。 “没有时间做任何事情

else,' said Mum. I took the saucepan off the stove and huffed over to the table where my family were sitting. I thought my brother Wilbur looked very smug with his bowl of half- finished rose petal fairy flakes in front of him. Wilbur and I are both half witch and half fairy but we both hate Mum's witchy food. She likes eating spider-sprinkled toast and caterpillar bolognaise and... bat-wing porridge. Yuck! Dad's fairy food is much nicer. I spooned some porridge into my bowl and squirted lots of honey on it to hide the taste. Then I sat down at the table with a big sigh.

“不然的话。”妈妈说。我把锅从炉子上拿下来，怒气冲冲地走到家人坐着的桌子旁。 我觉得我的哥哥威尔伯看上去很得意，他面前摆着一碗没吃完的玫瑰花瓣仙子片。 威尔伯和我都是一半女巫一半仙女，但我们都讨厌妈妈做的女巫食物。 她喜欢吃蜘蛛洒吐司和毛毛虫肉酱，还有… 蝙蝠翼粥。讨厌的东西!爸爸做的精灵食物好吃多了。 我舀了一些粥到碗里，然后喷了很多蜂蜜来掩盖它的味道。 然后我长叹一声，在桌旁坐下。