Welcome to Dog Beach by Lisa Greenwald

Author:Lisa Greenwald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2014-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

The next day is really busy. We meet at Dog Beach earlier than usual because Oscar’s mom has to take the babies to their pediatrician. I get worried that he’ll be lonely without Marilyn Monroe and the others, so all the dogs get picked up early.

Then we take them for lunch at Daisy’s—she serves up a full doggie menu on weekdays, when she’s not so busy—and we entertain them for most of the afternoon.

I can tell that Marilyn Monroe wishes it was just the two of us at Daisy’s, the way she sits on my lap at the table and then leaves a few dog treats by my feet, as if she thinks I’d enjoy the treats too.

It’s a great day, but by the end, we’re so tired that I’m worried we won’t have enough energy for trivia.

“Let’s meet there,” Micayla tells me as we’re walking home from Sundae Best. After such a tiring day, we deserve ice cream and we need the sugar to energize ourselves. “Six o’clock, right?”

I nod. Bennett’s already back home, since he needed to meet Asher after camp. I don’t know why they wouldn’t pick me up on the way, but I’m too tired to ask.

I rush inside, shower, put on a pair of skinny jeans and a tank top—and even though I only planned to lie down for five minutes, I fall sound asleep on my bed.

When I wake up and look at my clock, it’s five thirty.

I rush out of bed, tie my hair back in a ponytail, since it’s such a mess from my falling asleep with it wet, and hurry downstairs.

“Rem, no dinner?” my mom asks. She grilled some hot dogs, and they’re on a platter in the middle of the kitchen table.

“I can’t. Seagate Knowbodies tonight.”

“Take a hot dog for the walk,” my mom says. “We’ll meet you there.”

I quickly put a hot dog on a paper plate, squirt some ketchup on it, and hurry out the door.

I get there in ten minutes, and I’m pretty impressed with my ability to walk and eat. Micayla and Bennett are already sitting up on the stage, and they’re testing out the buzzers. The best part of Seagate Knowbodies (aside from winning) is that we get to use actual buzzers like in a real game show.

“Sorry I’m late, guys,” I say, a little out of breath.

Micayla motions to me that I have something on my face, and I quickly wipe away the drop of ketchup from the corner of my mouth. Maybe I’m not as good at walking and eating as I thought I was.

I sit between Micayla and Bennett. They saved me the middle seat. It was nice of them to do that, but that wasn’t the reason they did it. They did it because we always sit in this order, and we’re a little superstitious. We’ve won the past two years sitting in this exact formation.

Up on the stage, I can see everything. All the people who came to watch, Sundae

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