THREE HOURS LATER
Nikki was still in a state of shock. Lauren had written to her! The letter had been about how she had got Nikki's previous letter, and how she really wished she could come to the show. It also had a doodle of a unicorn with Lauren and Nikki on it, eating cookies (Laurens had an arrow pointing to them saying 'gluten free'). Then Lauren had signed off saying she hoped Nikki would write back! Nikki had made several attempts to write something comprehensible, but reading the letter afterwards, it just sounded like a garbled mess. Nikki picked up the letter again, and re-read it. It was perfect. After looking at the unicorn doodle, she picked up a crayola and some plain paper and decided to draw a picture of herself, and what she was feeling.
An hour later and Nikki put down her crayon. Her drawing was finished. It sprawled all over the page, and it was basically a simple drawing of Nikki, with flowers, rainbows and squiggly lines coming out of her. She had also found a little pot of glitter from a drawer in her desk, and had lavishly sprinkled it all over the paper. On the back of the picture she wrote a note to Lauren, explaining how she could really write what she felt, so she drew it instead. Then she pushed it into an envelope, grinning at the thought of Laurens face when she would see all the glitter.
