Chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR Violet's friends were all very relieved to see her. "We've been worried about you," said Ariana, hurrying over. "We thought you might be lost in the snow." "We were, but Twinkle was amazing." Violet sat on her bed and pulled her thick duvet around her. She told the others how Twinkle had brought them safely back through the snow. She decided not to tell them about the pink spark, just in case she'd imagined it. Matilda hugged her. "Well, I'm very glad you're back." Violet smiled. Her friends were the best! "So, do you want to hear what we've decided to

维奥莱特的朋友们见到她都松了一口气。 “我们一直很担心你。”阿利安娜说着匆匆走了过来。 “我们以为你可能在雪地里迷路了。” “是的，但是《闪儿》太棒了。” 维奥莱特坐在床上，把厚厚的羽绒被裹在身上。 她告诉其他人，闪烁是如何把他们安全地从雪地里带回来的。 她决定不告诉他们粉红色火花的事，以防那是她自己想象出来的。 玛蒂尔达拥抱了她。“嗯，我很高兴你回来了。” 紫笑了。她的朋友是最好的！“那么，你想听听我们的决定吗？

do about the cloaked figure?" said Rosa, her eyes shining. She jumped on to Violet's bed. "Tomorrow night, we're going to sneak into the teachers' quarters and spy on them!" Matilda grinned, but Freya frowned. "I really don't think it's a good idea." "Freya and Ariana have said they won't come, but you will, won't you, Violet?" said Rosa. "Um…" "Pleeeeeeease!" said Matilda. Violet really didn't want to. "Well…" "We won't take no for an answer," said Rosa firmly. "Oh, all right then," said Violet, giving in. Rosa and Matilda beamed. "Awesome! So, tomorrow night, our spying mission begins!" Rosa declared. Violet was tired the next day. In the Healing with Herbs lesson, grumpy Ms Bramble shouted at her twice for yawning. Violet was extremely relieved when Ms Bramble ended the lesson early and sent them for lunch. After a warming bowl of soup with hot crusty bread, Violet and the other Diamond

那个披着斗篷的身影怎么办？”罗莎说，她的眼睛闪闪发光。 她跳到维奥莱特的床上。 “明天晚上，我们要溜进教师宿舍，暗中监视他们！”玛蒂尔达咧嘴一笑，弗雷娅却皱起了眉头。 “我真的不认为这是个好主意。” “弗雷娅和阿利安娜说她们不来了，但你会来的，是不是，维奥莱特？”罗莎说。 “求你了！”玛蒂尔达说。 维奥莱特真的不想。 “嗯……”“我们不会让你拒绝的，”罗莎坚定地说。 “哦，那好吧。”维奥莱特让步了。 罗莎和玛蒂尔达笑了。“太棒了!所以，明天晚上，我们的间谍任务就要开始了！”罗莎说。 第二天，维奥莱特很累。 在草药治疗课上，脾气暴躁的布兰布尔女士因为她打哈欠而对她大喊了两次。 当布兰布尔老师提前下了课，让他们去吃午饭时，维奥莱特松了一口气。 喝了一碗热汤配上热硬皮面包后，维奥莱特和另一个戴蒙德

dorm girls went to the stables to visit their unicorns. Shouts of laughter greeted them across the yard. They hurried inside and found Miki, Himmat and the boys from Topaz dorm pretending to duel with hockey sticks. "What's going on?" asked Rosa. "Jake's fighting us! We tricked him. He's never played unicorn hockey before so we told him the sticks were used to pull riders from their unicorns." Miki could hardly speak for laughing. Himmat doubled over. "And once you'd caught a rider, you used the stick to hook him up by his hoodie on a fence post."

宿舍女生去马厩看她们的独角兽。 他们在院子对面听到了哄堂大笑。 他们急忙跑进去，发现美琪、希玛特和黄玉宿舍的男孩们假装用曲棍球棍决斗。 “发生什么事了？”罗莎问。 “杰克在打我们！”我们骗了他。 他以前从来没有玩过独角兽曲棍球，所以我们告诉他，这些棍子是用来把骑手从独角兽身上拉下来的。” 美琪笑得几乎说不出话来。 Himmat弯下腰。“一旦你抓住了一个骑手，你就用棍子把他的连帽衫钩在栅栏柱上。”

"I knew you were joking," said Jake, waving his hockey stick. "Did not!" yelled Miki and Himmat. Rosa burst out laughing too. "That's mean. Genius, but still mean!" "We know!" When everyone had eventually calmed down, Freya said, "Honey loves unicorn hockey. Who's up for a game in the snow, Diamond dorm against Topaz?" "I'm in," said Ariana. "I'm hopeless at hockey, but Whisper loves anything like that." Twinkle looked out of his stable. "Hockey's boring," he said loudly. Violet cringed at his rudeness, but Himmat just grinned. "Oh, hockey's boring, is it? Obviously you've never played with us. Am I right, Miki?" "Yeah," said Miki. "No one gets bored the way we play! Come on, Violet. You'll join in, won't you?" He went to hand Violet a hockey stick, but Twinkle stepped out of the stable and stood in his way. "Violet doesn't want to play hockey." "Wow, Violet! You said that without even moving your mouth," joked Miki. He wiggled a hockey stick at her, trying to pass it around

“我知道你在开玩笑，”杰克说，挥舞着他的曲棍球棒。 “没有！”美琪和希玛特喊道。 罗莎也大笑起来。 “这是意思。天才，但还是很吝啬！”“我们知道!”当大家都冷静下来后，弗雷娅说：“亲爱的喜欢独角兽曲棍球。 谁想在雪地里玩一场，钻石宿舍对黄玉？”“我加入。”阿利安娜说。 “我对冰球一窍不通，但Whisper喜欢这类东西。” 闪烁从马厩里往外看。 “曲棍球很无聊，”他大声说。 维奥莱特对他的粗鲁感到畏缩，但Himmat只是咧嘴一笑。 “哦，曲棍球很无聊，是吗？” 显然你从没和我们一起玩过。 我说的对吗，美琪？”“是的，”美琪说。 “没有人会因为我们的游戏方式而感到无聊！来吧，维奥莱特。 你会参加的，是吗？”他走过去递给维奥莱特一根曲棍球棒，但是闪闪从马厩里走出来挡住了他的路。 “维奥莱特不想打曲棍球。” “哇,紫色!你说这话的时候连嘴都没动，”美琪开玩笑说。 他朝她挥舞着曲棍球棒，想把它传过去

Twinkle. "Go on, give it a try!" "I… Um… Well…" Violet's cheeks burned as everyone turned to look at her. She really wanted to play, but she didn't want to fall out with Twinkle, especially after their closeness last night. "Violet?" said Himmat. Violet didn't know what to do. "Sorry," she gasped suddenly. "I've got a headache. I'm going back to the dorm." She hurried away, sure that everyone would guess she was just chickening out of making a choice. Why couldn't Twinkle just ask what she wanted to do for a change? Once she was outside the stables, she ran all the way to the academy. She yanked the door open and almost bumped into Isla, who was on her way out. "Whoops! Sorry!" said Isla. She frowned. "Hey, are you OK, Violet? Has someone upset you?" "I'm fine," muttered Violet. Isla looked doubtful. "You don't look fine." She pulled Violet inside and over to a large window seat. "What's up?" Isla sounded so sincere that Violet couldn't stop herself. She found herself blurting out what had happened and once she'd started, she couldn't stop. Soon Isla knew all about her worries and concerns about Twinkle. "I don't think he means to be rude,"

闪烁。“来吧，试一试！”“我……嗯……嗯……”大家都转过头来看着维奥莉特，她的脸颊发烫。 她真的很想玩，但她不想和小星星闹翻，尤其是在他们昨晚亲密接触之后。 “维奥莱特？”维奥莱特不知道该怎么办。 “对不起，”她突然喘着气说。 “我头疼。我要回宿舍了。” 她匆匆走开了，确信每个人都会猜测她只是因为胆怯而不敢做出选择。 为什么小闪就不能问一下她想做些什么呢？ 一出马厩，她就一路跑到学院去了。 她猛地推开门，差点撞到艾拉，艾拉正准备出去。 “哎呀!对不起！”艾拉说。 她皱起了眉头。“嘿，你还好吗，维奥莱特？” 有人惹你生气了吗？”“我很好。”维奥莱特喃喃地说。 艾拉露出怀疑的神色。“你看起来不太好。” 她把维奥莱特拉进车里，坐在一个靠窗的大座位上。 “怎么了?”艾拉的声音如此真诚，以至于维奥莱特无法控制自己。 她发现自己把发生的事情脱口而出，一旦开口，就停不下来了。 不久，艾拉就知道了她对闪烁的所有担忧。 “我认为他不是有意无礼的。”

Violet finished. "But I can't help thinking that we'll never bond if he doesn't listen to me or think about what I want." Isla gave Violet's arm a sympathetic squeeze. "Twinkle hasn't always been this bad, has he?" she said thoughtfully. "He's the last unicorn in your dorm not to have found his magic or bonded. I bet he's worried and that's why he's bossier than normal. Maybe you

紫色的完成。“但我忍不住想，如果他不听我的话，不考虑我想要什么，我们就永远不会在一起了。” 艾拉同情地捏了一下维奥莱特的胳膊。 她若有所思地说：“小闪并不总是这么坏的，是吗？” “他是你宿舍里最后一个没有发现自己的魔力或没有结缘的独角兽。 我打赌他一定很担心，所以他才比平时更霸道。 也许你