Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad by Annie Barrows

Author:Annie Barrows
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2008-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

“We’re pausing for station identification,” Bean yelled. She turned back to Ivy. “Am I just bad once?”

“Well, that depends,” said Ivy, “on how long it takes for the birds to show up.”

Wow. Being bad was actually good. Bean jumped to her feet. “Okay, guys!” she yelled at the kids on the curb. “I’m going to be really bad, and then Ivy’s going to make me good. Then we’ll have birds galore. Not just those crow losers.”

“How bad are you going to be?” yelled Dino.

“You wait and see,” called Bean. “You won’t believe it.”

She’d better think of something quick.

She looked around Ivy’s front yard.

She scratched her mosquito bites.

She searched through her brain for badness. The problem was that she usually didn’t decide to be bad. For example, she knew that she wasn’t supposed to call Nancy a doody head, but when she got really mad, she forgot. She didn’t mean to be bad; she was just too mad to remember to be good.

Maybe she should call Ivy a doody head. But she didn’t truly think Ivy was a doody head, so that probably wouldn’t count.

Bean pulled a leaf off a bush and looked at Ivy. “Bad?” she asked.

Ivy shrugged. “Not really. My mom cuts them with clippers.”

Okay. She would have to do something worse.

She just couldn’t think of anything. “What’s bad?” she asked.

“Bad words,” Ivy said instantly.

Of course! Bean should have thought of that herself! Just a few days ago she had heard a lot of bad words at the hardware store. Some of them were so bad that she didn’t know what they meant, so she picked the one that had sounded the worst. She turned to face the kids on the curb. “I’m about to say a bad word!” she yelled. “A super-duper bad word!”

Dino, Liana, and the Sophies nodded. Katy clapped.

Bean stood very close to Ivy and whispered the bad word in her ear.

Ivy tried not to giggle, but it came out her nose. She sniffed hard and then put her hands over her heart and cried, “NO! I beg you, Bean, not to say that terrible word! Promise you won’t!”

Bean looked at Ivy for a moment. What was she supposed to do? “Um, okay.”

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