Dear Alice,

There’s nothing I can do. My mum is so excited that you’re coming over that she even made me clean my room and go through my ENTIRE Legot collection and find all the girl characters, which was really hard because I’d put most of the girl heads on monster bodies and pulled off their arms and replaced them with robotic-looking arms so it took forever to put them back together. Anyway, she made me make a Legot scene with them that you might like so I’ve made a frozen yoghurt shop that’s run by ninjas.

This is really going to get in the way of me hatching a plan to get the ghost back.

See you after school, I guess.

Yours reluctantly,

Captain Jimmy Cook