Chapter 2

Chapter TWO After breakfast the next day I began my mission. The easiest thing to find would be the red rose petals. Fairies love nature so Mum makes sure our garden is always blooming. I found a rose bush and plucked a few petals off each of the roses, dropping them into a basket. Mum would never notice! Then I hurried

第二章第二天早饭后，我开始了我的使命。 最容易找到的是红玫瑰花瓣。 仙女们热爱大自然，所以妈妈要确保我们的花园永远盛开。 我找到了一丛玫瑰，从每朵玫瑰上摘下几片花瓣，把它们扔进一个篮子里。 妈妈不会注意到的！然后我赶紧

upstairs to the bathroom where Dad keeps all his shaving things. I found an unopened can of shaving foam in the cupboard and a bar of pink soap so I put them both in my basket too. Next, I ran all the way up the twirly steps of the second tallest turret of our house where Dad's astronomy tower is to find the stardust. There was a jar of it on a shelf so I took a small pinch. The last thing to find was the

上楼去爸爸放他所有剃须用具的浴室。 我在橱柜里发现了一罐未开封的剃须泡沫和一块粉红色的肥皂，所以我把它们也放进了我的篮子里。 接下来，我一路跑上我们家第二高的塔楼的旋转台阶，爸爸的天文塔就是在那里找到星尘的。 架子上有一罐，所以我拿了一小撮。 最后找到的是

strawberries. Mum always has loads of fruit and vegetables in the house so I knew there would be some in the fridge. I took five and popped them into my basket when no one was looking. Then I scurried up to my bedroom and hid the basket of potion ingredients under my bed. That evening, after I had kissed Mum and Dad goodnight, I lay in bed with my eyes wide open feeling nervous and guilty. I really didn't want to do the maths test on Monday but I didn't know if I could actually go through with the spell. I kept looking at the clock on my

草莓。妈妈总是在家里有很多水果和蔬菜，所以我知道冰箱里会有一些。 我拿了五个，趁没人注意把它们塞进篮子里。 然后我赶紧跑到卧室，把那一篮子药水藏在床底下。 那天晚上，在我吻了爸爸妈妈晚安之后，我躺在床上，眼睛睁得大大的，感到紧张和内疚。 我真的不想在星期一做数学测试，但我不知道我是否真的能完成这个咒语。 我一直在看我的

bedside table, watching it tick towards midnight. I heard Dad leave the house for his nightly vampire fly and I heard Mum go into her bedroom and shut the door. Everything was quiet and still in my room

床头柜，看着时间滴答滴答地走向午夜。 我听见爸爸离开家去捉夜间的吸血鬼，我听见妈妈走进卧室，关上了门。 我的房间里静悄悄的

and a sliver of moonlight shone through the gap in my curtains, leaving a glowing line along my floor. Perhaps I would just take the potion into the garden and see how I felt then? At twenty minutes to midnight, I slipped out of bed, leaving Pink Rabbit snoozing, curled up in a ball. I put on my dressing gown, grabbed the basket of potion ingredients, and tiptoed down the stairs to the kitchen. The house felt strange with all the lights off and I gave a little shiver as I opened the kitchen cabinet to find one of Mum's mixing bowls and a wooden spoon. All was quiet as I unlocked the back door and hurried out into the back

一缕月光透过窗帘的缝隙照了进来，在地板上留下了一道亮光。 也许我应该把药水拿到花园里，看看我是什么感觉？ 离午夜还有二十分钟，我悄悄下了床，留下粉红兔蜷成一团在睡觉。 我穿上晨衣，抓起装满药剂的篮子，蹑手蹑脚地走下楼梯，来到厨房。 房子里所有的灯都关了，感觉很奇怪。当我打开厨房橱柜，发现妈妈的一个搅拌碗和一个木勺时，我有点发抖。 我打开后门，匆匆跑到后门，四周一片寂静

garden. The only sound I could hear was the hooting of an owl nearby. It didn't scare me. I am half vampire. 'I'll just make the potion to see if I want to use it,' I thought as I knelt down on the grass and put the mixing bowl in front of me, making sure that the moonlight was shining into it. I began to fill it with the potion ingredients, starting with the soap flakes and finishing up with a big fluffy squirt of shaving foam. I maybe squirted a little too much of the shaving foam into the bowl but it was so much fun, pressing the top of the can!

花园。我唯一能听到的声音是附近一只猫头鹰的叫声。 这并没有吓到我。我是半个吸血鬼。 “我先把药水调好，看看我要不要用。”我一面想，一面跪在草地上，把搅拌碗放在面前，确保月光照在碗里。 我开始往瓶子里倒药水，一开始是肥皂片，最后是一大股蓬松的剃须泡沫。 我可能在碗里喷了太多的剃须泡沫，但它是如此有趣，按下罐子的顶部！