Not-So-Weird Emma by Sally Warner

Author:Sally Warner [Warner, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101567586
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2007-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

Annie Pat and I meet under the pepper tree in front of school, just the way we planned. She is wearing her second-best clothes today, too. “Okay,” I tell her. “Now, I’ll say it to Corey, and you’ll say it to Heather. Okay?”

“Okay,” Annie Pat says. She giggles way up high, because of hearing all of our okays, maybe, and her face turns pink the way it does when Ms. Sanchez calls on her. “I’m scared,” she whispers to me as we walk into class.

“Me, too, but so what?” I whisper back. “It’ll serve Cynthia right for being so mean to us.”

“Yeah, it’ll serve her right,” Annie Pat agrees, nodding her head up and down so fast that her curly hair bounces.

I sit down at my desk and try to tug my plaid skirt over my scabby knees.

Corey flops down in his seat, too, just as Cynthia prances into the room. She is not wearing her usual Wonderland headband today, I notice. “Hi,” Corey says to me, then he looks at my skirt and sweater. “Are you going ice skating after school or something?” he asks.

See, there is an indoor rink at the shopping mall. That’s what he’s talking about.

But why can’t people just mind their own business? I don’t say that to Corey, however. He’d probably faint if I did. Even his freckles would faint! Instead, I say, “Not really,” which doesn’t make very much sense, once I think about it. People are either going ice skating, or they are not going ice skating. There is nothing in between.

“Oh,” Corey says, looking confused.

Cynthia plops down into her seat and gives me a dirty look. She has probably heard that Annie Pat came over to my house after school yesterday.

Well, that’s just tough! Let her be mad.

Across the room, I can see Annie Pat whisper something to Heather, and they both look at Cynthia and giggle. Next to me, Cynthia frowns a little and twiddles with a pencil.

I am going to have to hurry if I want to keep up with Annie Pat. “Hey,” I whisper to Corey, “I wonder if Bossy Pants is going to yell at you again today?”

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