Twist My Charm by Toni Gallagher

Author:Toni Gallagher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

As I listen, I leaf through the potion book, looking at its illustrations and wondering which recipe to make next. I don’t want to pick one, translate it, and then find out it doesn’t fit the problem I have with me and Larry and Dad and Terri and Paige. Ryder keeps on singing:

We don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to do it.

Grown-ups don’t understand, they just tell us how we blew it…

DING! There’s a text message on my phone. It’s from Madison.

Can you talk?

Sure, I write back. What about?

Call me.

Wow. I barely ever talk to Madison on the phone. Why would I ever talk to anyone on the phone when there’s texting? But I dial her number and hear one ring. Madison answers right away. “I have something to tell you,” she says. “I’ve been meaning to for days, and when I saw you and Samantha talking at kickball, I realized…”

“I know,” I tell her.

“You know?”

“I know you didn’t tell her everything, but she figured out most of it. Then she tricked me into telling her.”

Madison seems happy to finally tell the truth. Sam was grilling her mercilessly at the art show, and Madison only got away because her parents interrupted. “That was the first time I was ever happy to see my parents,” she says with a laugh. “But Sam probably would’ve broken me down if she’d had a few more minutes. She was like a squirrel with a nut.”

“Yep, she’s like a dog with a bone,” I say, picturing her face on Toby’s body. Sam’s got her teeth in Toby’s favorite pork chop–shaped chew toy, and she won’t let go no matter how hard I pull at it.

“Listen, we know things can go wrong. This is all about making them right again,” says Madison. “Let’s invite Sam over to my house after school this week, and she can help us pick a potion.”

“She does know Spanish,” I say.

“And if she wants to do a love potion because she likes Larry, that will solve your little problem,” Madison points out.

I’m liking this idea more and more. “Are you sure?”

“Sure,” she says, like it’s no big deal.

Wow. I bet Samantha never expected she’d be invited to Madison Paddington’s mansion…but then again, I never did either!

We say goodbye, and I put Ryder’s song back on. The final triumphant lyrics of “Understanding Misunderstanding” put me in a better mood. With Ryder, anything seems possible:

One day they will trust us, we’ll climb that hill…

They don’t understand now, but…but someday they willlll­lllll­l!

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