Loudest Beagle on the Block by Tui T. Sutherland
Author:Tui T. Sutherland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-11-22T16:00:00+00:00
I didn’t even have a moment to feel awkward because right away Heidi said, “Let’s take her outside! Can we?”
“Yeah, OK,” I said. Trumpet trotted ahead of us to the back door and then hurled herself down the steps from the deck to the yard.
“Do you have a tennis ball?” Heidi asked. “Do you think she would chase it?”
“I don’t know. Our closets are more likely to be full of old harmonicas and record albums,” I said, “but I’ll go look.”
We have one big walk-in closet upstairs that my mom refuses to go near. It’s full of all my dad’s old stuff that he won’t throw away. There are The Smashing Mozarts posters and boxes of tickets for every rock concert he ever went to and signed albums from bands nobody’s ever heard of. Dad thinks maybe he can sell it all for a lot of money on eBay one day, but whenever he says that, Mom goes “Yes, dear,” and that’s the end of that conversation.
I figured if there were tennis balls anywhere in the house, they’d be in there. And they’d probably be like twenty years old or something. Nobody in my house plays sports except for Isaac’s soccer, and I kind of think Mom encourages that to wear him out so he’ll be too tired to act crazy at night.
I did find tennis balls in Dad’s closet. A can of three was sitting on a shelf next to a set of drumsticks. I thought for a second, and then I took the drumsticks as well. Dad wouldn’t mind. He’d be thrilled to think I was interested in anything in his closet. It was actually kind of risky, because I might get stuck listening to some of his Smashing Mozarts music. That’s only happened once before, and it was terrible. Poor Dad. It’s like nobody ever told him that shouting and singing are two different things.
Outside, Heidi had found Isaac’s practice soccer ball and was kicking it around the garden with Trumpet chasing her. I’ve never been to one of our school’s soccer games, but I could tell that Heidi was actually really good. She kept sneaking it away from Trumpet at the last minute and doing these fancy jumps and kicks and footwork to move the ball in new directions.
Trumpet barked and tried to pounce on the ball. Her ears flew up and down. The ball zipped past her and she stopped, turning to the right and left like she couldn’t figure out where it had gone. She lowered her head and looked underneath her to see if it was hiding under her legs. Then Heidi made the ball pop up in the air, and Trumpet howl-barked triumphantly, running after it again.
I got to the bottom of the steps just as Trumpet ran under Heidi’s feet, and Heidi tripped over the dog and the ball. She crashed to the grass, and Trumpet immediately jumped on her stomach to lick her face.
“This is heaven,” Heidi said to me as I came up to her.
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