Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

Author:Lisa Bunker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2019-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE: SEEING ZEN

Melissa

The cross was the first thing I noticed, actually. She has a cross on a chain around her neck, just like I do. Which, I know at least some of the other kids at school go to church, but Mom says not all that many, and of the ones that do, almost none of them would wear a cross. Not so you could see it. Mom says it’s a shame that the world has come to this, and I think she’s right.

Anyway, Zenobia came over to our house. I invited her, because I made the decision over the summer that I was going to try to make more friends. And we had a nice time. There was a weird thing that happened where Mom was asking questions, and Zen said both her parents were dead, and then she got all emotional, and Mom had to comfort her. That is sad, for sure. To lose both your parents so young. I wonder if she did something really bad so that God had to punish her like that.

She’s not very good at word games. She got the worst score of all three of us, by about a hundred points, and after a while I could tell she was bored.

She did get weird about that other kid. The girl who thinks she’s a boy. I just said what Mom said about how sad it was that some poor kid’s parents would do that to her, actually encourage her like that. And Zenobia got all snappy. I did like Mom says and turned the other cheek. Still, though, I didn’t understand her reaction.

I do like her, though. She really loved the bracelet I made for her, and besides that she just seems nice. I think I’m going to invite her over again.

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