I Forgot to Tell You by Charis Marsh

Author:Charis Marsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Taylor Audley

Going to Seattle tommorow! Cross you’re fingers for me everyone :D :D

Taylor woke up early, trying to remember why on earth her alarm would be set for such a hideous time of day. Oh. She had auditions today. She sat up, accidentally kicking Keiko. She’d forgotten that Keiko was sleeping over. She hopped out of bed and put her yellow bunny slippers on, walking to the kitchen. Charlize was already in the kitchen. “Good, you’re up. I was just going to go get you — where’s Keiko?”

“She’s still asleep.” Taylor dug in the fridge for some chocolate milk and began to sip it. “Mom, can you make pancakes?”

“Taylor, we have to leave in an hour.”

“So?”

“Okay, I’ll make pancakes if you are completely ready, everything in the car, hair done, by the time that they are made.”

“Thanks. I’ll go wake up Keiko.” Taylor padded along back to her room. “Keiko! Keiko, Keiko, Keiko —” Keiko merely turned over. Taylor considered the situation. She reached out and took one of Keiko’s hairs and stuck it in her nostril, tickling it.

“Ah!” Keiko sat up, annoyed. She rubbed her nose. “What are you doing, Taylor?”

Taylor jumped up on her bed. “You wouldn’t get up. My dad used to do that to me when I was little.”

“Your dad is a crazy man.” Keiko grabbed a pillow and buried her face in it. “Agh, agh, agh.” She finally got up and went over to her bag of toiletries, digging out a small box of pills. She took two and swallowed.

“What are those for?” Taylor asked.

Keiko frowned at her. “Just medicine.”

“For what?”

“My people allergy.”

“What do you mean your people allergy?”

“Don’t you know that it is rude to ask people about pills? It is for my people allergy.”

“Um, okay? My mom says that she will make us pancakes if we get completely ready really fast.”

“Okay.” Keiko went into the bathroom and started to brush her teeth. Taylor followed her, and began to do her hair. She took some parts of her ponytail out to twist and make coiled lines on top of the smooth regular ponytail.

“Keiko, what is a people allergy?”

Keiko looked at her. “It is something I take a pill for. The pill makes me calm, and then I don’t hate people.”

“Oh.” Taylor considered this. “I don’t think we have people allergies in Canada. It must be just a thing that is in Japan.”

Keiko ignored this and began doing her makeup. She did the best eyes of anybody in the school, by the end whichever eyes she had been working on looked 50 percent larger.

Taylor watched her. “Can you do my eyes, Keiko?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“Because I want pancakes.” This was a valid reason, so Taylor turned around to the mirror and started to work.

“You girls ready?” Charlize called up to them.

“Coming.” They went downstairs with their large overflowing bags.

“I am sure that you guys don’t actually need that much stuff,” Charlize protested. Alison was already sitting at the table, and there was a large stack of pancakes in the centre of the table.

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