Blume, Judy by Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself

Author:Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself [Herself, Starring Sally J. Freedman As]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-26T20:48:19+00:00

Esther Williams Finds a Sister

Esther Williams is searching for a girl to play her younger sister in a new movie. She comes to Miami Beach but she can’t find anyone suitable at the Roney Plaza, so she tries the Seagull Pool. When she spots Sally, floating on her back, she says, That’s her … that’s the girl I want to play my little sister! We’ll teach her to swim just like me. I can tell she’s got real talent by the way she floats on her back. We’ll need a boy to play opposite her. .

someone with dark, flashing eyes.

Oh, I know just the boy, Sally tells Esther Wil

hams, and she introduces her to Peter Hornstein, who happens to be visiting at the Seagull Pool that very day. Then Sally and Peter fly off to Hollywood with Esther Williams and they have to practice kissing three times a week.

Sally sighed.

“What is it, sugar?” Precious Redwine asked, licking her finger, then touching it to the iron.

“Nothing …” Sally said.

The phone rang. Three short rings. Sally already knew that one long ring was Mrs. Purcell, who lived in their building, but it wasn’t much fun to listen in on her conversations because they were always about her headaches and backaches and hot flashes. And she knew the Daniels’ ring too. One long, one short, then another long. She’d listened to Bubbles and her boyfriend plenty of times. But this was the first time she’d heard three short rings. She picked up the receiver very quietly and covered the mouthpiece with one hand, while raising it to her ear with the other.

“Hey, Zavodsky … that’s you?” It was a man’s voice.

“That’s me, Simon,” Mr. Zavodsky answered.

Sally sucked in her breath. She didn’t know he was on their party line too. What good luck! At last the bird plop was working.

asked.

“By me, it’s okay,” Mr. Zavodsky said. “By me, too.”

“So … it’s all set for tonight?”

“All set… just like I promised,” Simon said.

“Good… so, you’ll come by about eight?” Mr. Zavodsky asked.

“About eight sounds good. Well walk over from your place.”

“You should please be careful walking,” Mr. Zavodsky said.

“I’m not always careful?” Simon asked.

“1 should know?” Mr. Zavodsky asked him.

“Goodbye.”

“Goodbye, yourself.”

Sally waited until she’d heard the click, then she replaced the receiver. It has to be a code, she thought. Yes, a secret code! Otherwise it made no sense. And Simon was probably one of Hitler’s old cronies, from the war. And probably what they were planning for tonight at eight was somebody’s murder!

“Why do you listen to other people on the telephone?” Precious Redwine asked.

“I like to,” Sally told her. “You shouldn’t do that.” “I know.”

“It’s not nice.” “I know.”

“Then why do you do it?”

“I told you … I like to … I like to know what’s going on . .

Precious Redwine laughed then-a big, deep laugh that came right out of her belly. “You’re a nosey little girl… you know that?”

Sally nodded. “Please don’t tell on me.”

“I won’t tell on you if you don’t tell .

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