Girl Power by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-73049-1
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2012-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

chapter two

The Harbor water was shockingly cold at first, but the girls splashed in and out of the waves until they were thoroughly cooled off. Then they spread out their towels and blankets over the warm sand and opened the cooler that Emily and Morgan had carried down to the Rainbow Bus. At the bus, Carlie had insisted that she and Amy do their part by transporting it the rest of the way to the beach.

Emily didn’t even feel guilty when Amy complained about how heavy the cooler was. She thought it was about time that the girl did her share. During their massive cleanup of the trailer park, Emily had just assumed that Amy was working as hard as the rest of them, but the more she thought about it, the more she remembered seeing Amy sitting in the shade or sipping on a soda or complaining about a broken fingernail.

“This is the life,” said Morgan, lying back on her towel, a can of Sierra Mist balancing on her chest. The can matched perfectly with Morgan’s lime green, one-piece suit.

“Yeah, I’m ready for some downtime,” said Carlie as she straightened out her beach towel. “I mean, isn’t this supposed to be summer vacation? And we’ve been working harder than ever the last couple of weeks.”

“But our work has a good payoff,” said Morgan. “Don’cha think?”

“I do,” said Emily, stretching her pale arms out into the sun’s warmth. Hopefully she’d start getting a tan before too long. She glanced at her three friends lounging around her on their towels and blankets. It wasn’t going to be easy hanging with these girls all summer. Morgan’s naturally brown skin glowed like copper in the sunlight. Carlie’s deep olive complexion, as well as the way she was filling out her tankini, looked amazing, and even Amy with her relatively fair Asian skin looked a lot tanner than Emily.

Emily flopped back onto her towel and hoped that it hadn’t been a mistake to come here without sunscreen.

“Better watch out, Emily,” warned Amy as she reached in her beach bag. Then almost as if Amy had been reading her thoughts, she pulled out a tube of sunscreen and tossed it to her. “You need to protect your skin from the sun. My sister An made me put some on before I came down here. And it’s waterproof too.”

“Thanks,” said Emily.

“Yeah, you could be a lobster in no time,” said Amy as she adjusted the strap of her bathing suit top. Amy was the only one to wear a two-piece, but her figure was so much like that of an eight-year-old, it didn’t seem too risqué.

“But I do want to get some tan,” said Emily as she cautiously smeared some of the white glop onto her ghostly white legs.

“You could use a little bit of tan, girlfriend,” teased Morgan. “You are one pale white chick.”

“Thanks a lot.” Emily tried to spread the gooey sunscreen even thinner now.

“I’ll take some of that too,” said Morgan when she was done.

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