Finding Her Way by Nancy N. Rue

Author:Nancy N. Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zonderkidz

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“You are so out of here, cat!”

Those were the words Lucy woke up to on Easter morning. Lolli leaped for the toy chest, and Lucy made a jump for her bedroom door with sleep crust still in her eyes. She almost collided with Dad in the hall, just as the back door slammed.

“Sounds like Aunt Karen has some feline issues this morning,” Dad said.

She just better not have touched a hair on a kitty head, Lucy thought as she skidded into the kitchen ahead of Dad, ready to toss Aunt Karen into the backyard.

But her aunt was standing at the table, fluffing up tissue paper that stuck out of a basket — and sniff ling. If Lucy hadn’t known better, she would have thought . . . no, Aunt Karen didn’t cry.

“You all right, K?” Dad said from the doorway.

“You try to do something nice in this house, and some cat has to come along and mess it up. I was up half the night working on this.” Aunt Karen gave the yellow tissue paper a final, exasperated fluff and turned to Lucy, eyes wet. “In case you’re missing anything out of here, blame it on that monster with the bad dye job.”

“Artemis?” Lucy said.

“The one that’s been squalling to get out of here all weekend. I just tossed it out the back door.”

“She’s a ‘her’ — and she’s not supposed to be out because of the — ”

“Missing from what?” Dad said quickly.

Aunt Karen picked up the bunch of tissue-papered fluff from the table. “From Lucy’s Easter basket. I caught that animal tearing into it.”

Dad chuckled. “That’s what you get for putting catnip in there.”

“That’s for me?” Lucy said.

Aunt Karen handed it to her. It was so big Lucy had to use both arms to hold it.

“I wanted to hide it,” Aunt Karen said. “That’s what our parents always did on Easter morning. I always found mine right away. Your mother had to have ten thousand clues — it was all about the game with her.”

“There’s no way you could have hidden this. Dad, it’s huge!”

“That’s Aunt Karen. Go big or stay home.”

“Exactly,” Aunt Karen said. “So, don’t you want to see what’s in it?”

Suddenly, Lucy wasn’t sure. It definitely smelled like chocolate, but if a bra was tucked into the Easter grass, she wasn’t sure she could fake delight.

But what she discovered, once she pulled out an entire package of yellow tissue paper, she never would have guessed. She described each item to Dad as she found it.

Little net bags full of miniature chocolate soccer balls.

Juice boxes just the right size for her backpack.

A stuffed bunny in a soccer uniform identical to the ones the Los Suenos Dreams wore, complete with cleats, shin guards, and a ball.

Three pairs of soccer socks with no flowers, butterflies, or ladybugs on them.

Easter grass loaded with jelly beans.

“Your mom always had jelly beans in her basket,” Aunt Karen said.“I don’t know if you even like them — ”

“I love them,” Lucy said, though she wasn’t sure she’d ever had any before.

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