Chapter 5

Saturday Was at Dev's again this morning. Mam thinks I am doing homework but really I am doing something more important and staying well away from EVIL TWINS. Especially today as Mam was planning on making playdough with them out of flour, water and food colouring. I dread to think of the resulting carnage! Mr Tatlock doesn't pick them up until one o'clock so Mrs Sharma (Dev's mam) insisted I stay for a delicious Indian

星期六今天早上又在戴夫家。 妈妈以为我在做作业，但实际上我在做更重要的事情，远离邪恶的双胞胎。 尤其是今天，妈妈正打算用面粉、水和食用色素做橡皮泥。 我害怕想到由此造成的大屠杀！塔特洛克先生直到一点钟才来接他们，所以夏尔马太太（戴夫的妈妈）坚持让我留下来吃一顿美味的印度菜

lunch. This was an added bonus as Mam is still cooking disgusting health food. Dev was wearing a psychedelic kaftan. He found it in a charity shop in town. I asked which one and he said Age Concern. More like Fashion Concern, if you ask me. I told Dev about the paint pandemonium and he was gutted he'd missed it. Then I showed him the box I'd found in the shed. 'We've got one of those at drama club,' he said. 'They're magic.' It would be magic if Dev ever got round to revealing his mentoring plans. Whenever I ask he taps the side of his nose and says, 'All good things come to those who wait.' I've been waiting for my own bedroom since birth and that hasn't happened yet, so that saying can't be true.

午餐。这是一个额外的好处，因为妈妈还在做恶心的健康食品。 戴夫穿着一件迷幻的长衫。 他在镇上一家慈善商店找到的。 我问是哪一家，他说是关怀老人。 要我说，更像是时尚关怀。 我告诉戴夫油漆大混乱的事，他很伤心自己没看到。 然后我给他看了我在小屋里找到的盒子。 他说：“我们戏剧社就有一个。” “他们是魔法。”如果戴夫能抽出时间透露他的导师计划，那将是一件神奇的事。 每当我问他时，他都会轻拍鼻子边说：“一切好事都降临在等待的人身上。”我从出生起就一直在等有自己的卧室，但到现在还没有，所以这句话不可能是真的。

When Dev went to the loo I had a nose around his desk. There was a yellow notepad on it with 'M.M.M.' written on the cover in metallic purple pen. When I looked inside I saw that the 'M.M.M.' stood for 'MENTORING MADDY TO MEGASTARDOM'. At last! I could see what he was up to! He had only filled in one page which read:

戴夫去厕所的时候，我在他的桌子周围嗅了嗅。 上面有一个黄色的记事本，上面写着“嗯……封面上用紫色金属笔写着。 当我往里面看的时候，我看到了那个“嗯……代表“指导麦迪成为巨星”。 终于!我能看出他想干什么！他只填了一页，上面写着：

WHAAAT?! He had only got as far as acquiring a writing implement! I quickly put the pad down when I heard him coming back. I was disappointed that in five days, that was all he'd managed. I couldn't blame him though. I did warn him I wasn't good at anything. When I got home, Jack was carrying a box down the stairs. 'Hey, Nut, take this to the garden!' he ordered, thrusting it at me. He is becoming very bossy these days. Dad says it's teenage hormones, but I reckon he's annoyed that his moustache hasn't made an

WHAAAT ? !他只得到了一个书写工具！当我听到他回来的声音时，我迅速放下了垫子。 我很失望，五天之内，他就做到了这些。 不过我也不能怪他。 我警告过他我什么都不擅长。 我到家时，杰克正拿着一个箱子下楼。 “嘿，坚果，把这个拿到花园里去！”他命令道，把它塞给我。 这些天他变得很专横了。 爸爸说这是青少年荷尔蒙的问题，但我猜他是生气了因为他的小胡子没长成

appearance yet. 'It's the experiments you need to help me with,' he said. I was still worried about what he wanted me to do, then remembered I was searching for my hidden talent and had to be up for trying anything at this stage, even if it did mean sitting in a bath full of worms. I needn't have worried though as the box only had pop bottles, plasticine, coloured card, and a tube of chewy mints in it. Jack told me the three experiments would be:

外观。“你需要帮我做的是实验，”他说。 我还在担心他想让我做什么，然后我想起来，我正在寻找自己隐藏的才能，在这个阶段，我必须准备好尝试任何事情，即使这意味着坐在一个满是虫子的浴缸里。 不过我不必担心，因为盒子里只有汽水瓶、橡皮泥、彩色卡片和一管嚼薄荷糖。 杰克告诉我这三个实验是