The Becket List by Adele Griffin

Author:Adele Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2019-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

“You sure aren’t fun, Mr. F,” I tell him, “but you’d get a gold medal for naps.”

When I look up, Nicholas and Zane are standing right in front of me.

“You said we could be taste testers,” says Nicholas. Zane grunts.

I pour an itsy-bitsy taste into a single cup for them to share. No point in wasting my precious lemonade on non-payers.

“PHHHFFFT!” Zane spits out his taste. “There’s no sugar in your lemonade!”

“What are you talking about?” I frown. “It’s lightly sweetened with honey.”

“PHHHFFFT!” My brother spits his sip, too. “Maybe you mean it’s barely sweetened with honey!”

I give Nicholas the frown that I can’t give to Zane, because Zane is our guest. “It’s got a lemon kick!”

Nicholas takes one last sip, throws down the cup, and makes a scrunched-up face like he’s a clown acting in a circus skit. “Your lemonade almost kicked my tongue out of my mouth!” It makes me so mad I could smack him.

“Yeah, you’d need first aid after this lemonade!” says Zane. Then the boys run off howling with laughter before I can think of a single excellent comeback.

I pour myself a small cup of lemonade.

Pow. Whoa. Okay, the boys were right. It’s sour. But. Sour can be delicious. Sour means not too icky sweet. I take another sip, but that tastes even worse because I know exactly what kind of sour it will be. My face is all pre-scrunched for it.

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