The Fix-It Friends--Sticks and Stones by Nicole C. Kear

Author:Nicole C. Kear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprint

Chapter 9

Ivy said Noah could come over, and she offered to watch us while Dad fixed the heater. So all of us walked together to the Monroe, where we had a big meeting at Ezra’s apartment.

The first thing I did at Ezra’s house was visit Ziggy, Ezra’s guinea pig. I am absolutely dying to get a pet, but my dad is allergic to pretty much any animal with fur, especially dogs, which are my favorite. I would settle for a snake, but Mom says they give her the heebie-jeebies. So for now, I have to play with other people’s pets. Ziggy is one of my favorites.

He’s a real furball. His brown fur is so long that his face is kind of hidden underneath it all. Ziggy is so smart that when you call his name, he runs right over to you. And he can do tricks!

I asked Ivy if I could borrow one of her big hoop earrings, and guess what? Ziggy jumped right through it!

“That guinea pig is a rock star,” said Ivy.

After we played with Ziggy, I asked for iced tea, which Ezra always has in his fridge. Not regular old iced tea but hibiscus tea, which is made from flowers! Ezra says it’s what he and his mom drink in Jamaica. He goes there every summer because that’s where his mom was born and where his grandma and grandpa live. He says that in Jamaica, the ocean is as warm as a bubble bath and you can catch little lizards and eat coconuts that fall off trees.

Ezra also says you can eat green bananas there. I saw some at his house once, and I said, “Ummm, Ez? I think you should throw those out. They’re completely green.” But then he explained that they were special bananas called plantains and they are supposed to be green. You learn something new every day, as my dad would say.

After school, I asked Ezra for some hibiscus tea, and also for potato chips. Ivy had a snack with us, and then she said she had to study for a big chemistry test.

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