I live with them now. I like them. They have red hair and freckles, lots of freckles, the kind that sit close and blur into each other. I dotted orange paint over my face to look just like them. They cried and hugged me tight, my freckles smudging into theirs.
Nikki Davison is a writer, book hoarder and guinea pig rescuer from north-east England.
I vanish every Tuesday at twenty past two. Poof. Gone. Invisible. Totally unseen by Kelly Summers and Anya Taylor as they point their hockey sticks and fill their teams.
Quarter past three I reappear wearing only my underwear, seen by everyone in the locker room – Anya makes sure of it.
Nikki Davison is a writer and guinea pig obsessive from the northeast of England.