Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster by Diane deGroat

Author:Diane deGroat [deGroat, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Published: 2012-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

“Hey! Gimme back my fin, Fungusface!” I yelled. I reached out and grabbed a handful of bandage from Matthew’s leg. I tugged hard and the mummy fell forward—arms, legs, and flipper flying in all different directions.

His head landed right next to mine. Suddenly something inside me made me do something I never expected to do.

I bit his ear.

“Owww!” Matthew yelled. “No fair biting!” He rubbed his ear and tried to get up. But it wasn’t easy. Like me, he had become part of the mud puddle.

“Okay! I’m ready!” Mark shouted. “Action!”

Matthew waved to his brother and said, “Wait! Did you see that? She bit me! She touched me with her tongue! That’s disgusting!”

This, of course, was coming from a kid who is famous for licking worms if someone dares him to.

“Don’t worry about it, Matt. Let’s start that scene all over again. It was great, but I wasn’t ready.”

“No way I’m done,” Matthew said. And then he shouted to the world, “Annie Pitts is disgusting!”

I sat up. “What’s disgusting is this mud,” I said. “What are we going to do now? Our costumes are ruined!”

Mark looked at his watch and said, “I don’t think we have time to do any more shooting anyway.”

“But what about the movie?” I asked. “How does it end? It has to have an ending.” I managed to stand up and make my way onto the grass.

Mark put the camera into the case and said, “It doesn’t have to have an ending, Annie. It’s just an assignment for my film class. It’s really not that important.”

“It is to me!” I said.

“Who cares?” Matthew whined. “I’m cold, and I’m hungry, and I want to go home so I don’t have to look at your ugly face anymore.”

“We can’t go anywhere,” I said. “Look at us!”

Matthew and I were completely covered with mud. Maybe Matthew didn’t care, but I couldn’t go home looking like this.

“Go see if the bathrooms are open,” Mark said. “Maybe you can get cleaned up in there.”

The town pool was back near the playground. It was closed for the winter, but the bathrooms and showers were still open. I headed for the ladies’ locker room.

All Matthew had to do to get clean was to take off his bandages. I, on the other hand, couldn’t take my costume off. I was wearing only a turtleneck shirt and a thin pair of tights underneath. And my Minnie Mouse underpants showed right through the tights. I decided I would just have to clean up the artichoke costume as best I could so I could wear it home.

I stepped under the shower and tried to turn the handle, but it wouldn’t budge. I forced it as hard as I could, and suddenly a blast of cold water hit me. By the time I could turn it off, I was soaked from head to toe.

But in the mirror I saw that I was actually clean. Wet, but clean. The mud was gone. But something strange was happening.

The Mountain Moss shampoo had suddenly started to bubble.

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