Hider under the Bed.
Sophie lay on top of her bed gazing up at the night sky outside her window.
She loved it when the stars came out and her mummy would let her gaze at them with her bedroom curtains open until she fell asleep.
She would often dream that she was flying through the sky in a spaceship, passing so close to the planets and the different constellations that if she reached out she could almost touch them.
This was how she loved to let her imagination run wild just before she fell to sleep.
Except tonight!
Tonight was Christmas Eve, and although she was just as excited as every other eight-year-old child in the city, the fact that her parents had both gone out and left her alone prevented her from relaxing sufficiently to drop off to sleep.
Sophie hated it when they both
