Zinnia's Zaniness by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Author:Lauren Baratz-Logsted [Zaniness, Zinnia's]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

SEVEN

We were all ready for the beach. We were standing on the deck and we had our bathing suits on, some of us in one-piece suits, some in bikinis. Well, Pete wasn't wearing a one-piece or a bikini. But he did have an inner tube in the shape of a sea serpent wrapped around his waist.

"I'm not much on swimming as such," Pete said when we looked pointedly at his serpent. "I prefer to just bob in the water."

We decided not to comment on the fact that Pete was wearing his work boots.

In addition to our bathing suits, we wore sunscreen, and we were carrying our towels. We also carried five beach umbrellas: Annie and Durinda had one, Georgia and Rebecca another, Jackie and Marcia a third, the Petes a fourth, and Zinnia struggled with one on her own, which was not easy to do with Call on one shoulder.

Poor Zinnia was struggling because one of us had yet to show up.

"Petal," Pete called into the house, "I'd hate to do anything to upset you, and I certainly wouldn't want to do anything to cause you to faint right now, but just what is taking you so long?"

We waited. And waited. And waited.

At last, at long last, Petal appeared.

Well, we assumed it was Petal inside and under all of that, but it was just an assumption.

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