My Chimp Friday by Hester Mundis

Author:Hester Mundis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2002-12-25T05:00:00+00:00

13.

Earth Dazed

On the way home that afternoon, Rachel felt as if she were walking on waves of meringue. Everything around and inside her seemed splendidly, stupendously sweet. She would never forget this Earth Day as long as she lived! Friday’s bagel basketball blowout had suddenly turned her into the most popular kid in school. (More popular even than Georgie Hass, whom everyone liked because he told the best jokes and always had free doughnuts from his father’s bakery.) Zachary Wagner, who was a term ahead of Rachel—and the best-looking boy in seventh grade—took a picture of her holding Friday holding a bagel. She’d acted as if it was nothing, but inside she was screaming, ZACHARY WAGNER WANTS A PICTURE OF ME! even though she knew it was Friday whose picture he wanted.

She didn’t like to gloat (another enriching word of Mr. DeFina’s), but it was hard for Rachel not to feel more than a little satisfaction about seeing how angry and jealous Karla was. To say she was not a good loser would be an understatement. If looks could kill, Rachel had no doubt she would be dead right now.

“I’ll tell you something, Friday,” she said, not caring who on the street saw her talking over her shoulder to her backpack, “having you is better than having long, silky, perfect movie star hair.”

Friday poked his head out. A man passing by did a double take. Rachel laughed, juggling her Rubik’s Cube from hand to hand. She couldn’t wait to tell Jared and her father about how well everything had gone.

Turning the corner on Eighty-seventh Street, she saw that Pickle Nose was back again. He was sitting on the steps of a brownstone across the street, reading the newspaper. He should meet Aunt Lisa’s friend, Wendy Mills, Rachel thought. They’re both around here often enough. They could keep each other company.

Instead of going in the front entrance of the building, Rachel headed down the alley to the basement. It was a shortcut that she and Jared took when they were in a hurry, because the service elevator was just to the left at the foot of the steps.

Whistling, she rubbed her Rubik’s Cube. This was the luckiest day of her life. She wished she could come up with an idea that would enable her to take Friday to school more often.

Just as she wished this, a lightbulb went on in her head. But before she could even think about her idea, there were footsteps behind her. Someone grabbed her shoulder. The next thing she knew, her backpack was wrenched from her, and she was falling down the stairs.

Distantly she heard Friday screaming and a dog barking, both rapidly getting fainter. She wondered what that idea was that she’d had.

And then everything went black.

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