The Taming of the Dru by Katie Maxwell

Author:Katie Maxwell [Maxwell, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Emotions & Feelings, Social Issues, Love & Romance
Publisher: Smooch
Published: 2004-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

~Em

Subject: re: Do I have a girl for you!

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Date: 15 August 2004 7:26pm

Devonator wrote:

>you to think of me, but I’m not really girlfriend shopping right now. Who is this bird you’re

>trying to stick me with?

I’m not trying to stick you with her, Devon, I’m trying to matchmake! Honest, she’s very nice, smart…ish (although she doesn’t have the best insights into people, but then, neither do I and you liked me as a GF), pretty, and is only two years older than you. You said you liked older women, remember? And she’s from New Zealand. When you come back next week, I’ll introduce her to you. She’s…um…kind of Fang’s GF now, but they really aren’t happy together. Or, Fang isn’t. But you know him, he’s too nice to say that he took up with Audrey while he was waiting for me to stop being an idiot, and now he doesn’t know how to get rid of her.

I thought about just having him tell her the truth, because that way I wouldn’t have to go around feeling guilty all the time (that’s wearing!), but then I decided that wouldn’t be fair to Fang…sec, Brother’s bothering me about something.

Back! Just when I think I have figured out Old People, they go weird on me and I’m back to not understanding them at all. Brother came into the library a few minutes ago demanding that I stop what I was doing and listen to him.

“Fine,” I said, St. Emily the martyr to her father. “But if you get to talk to me, I get to talk to you, too.”

“Threats will get you nowhere,” Brother said sternly, almost like his old self. He waved a couple of pamphlets under my nose. “I assume I have you to thank for these?”

I made really big eyes and pretended to read the title of the top pamphlet. “How To Tell Your Family The Truth. Hmm. This informative and helpful pamphlet intended to assist old people with how to tell their family horrible news appears to be published by a lung cancer society.”

“Yes, it appears that way,” Brother said, doing a little teeth grinding thing that I was very familiar with, having just ground away at least three layers of enamel over Fang’s GF. “I found it on my desk.”

“On your desk, you say.” I batted my lashes at him and put on my most innocent face. “How thoughtful and caring some concerned person is to leave that where it might do some good. Is there something you would like to tell me, Brother?”

“The thoughtful and caring person also left this.”

“Colon Cancer and You,” I read, cocking an eyebrow.

“And this one.” He didn’t have enough hair since his last pruning to form the traditional Brother Hair Horn, but the bit he did have was standing on end like he had stuck his finger in a light socket or something. It kind of melted my heart.

“Herpes: One Kiss Can Last For a Lifetime,” I read out loud. “Um. Perhaps the caring and thoughtful person was figuring it was better to include all possibilities.

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