Brooke by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1998-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

“Fine. We’re ready. So what do you think?” he asked. “We got a little Babe Ruth, huh?”

“I’d rather have a little Cindy Crawford,” she quipped. “Hurry upstairs and do your hands, Brooke,” she ordered.

I looked at Peter and then left the room. They were both waiting in the car when I returned.

“Watch your posture,” Pamela complained from the car window as I approached. “You’re hunching over too much. It’s your shoulders. They’re getting too big, probably from swinging that heavy stick of wood.”

“It’s called a bat,” I muttered as I got in.

She shot me a fiery look of irritation and then caught sight of herself reflected in the glass and worried about a redness in her right cheek all the way to the restaurant.

Not another word was said about my softball game.

For all she cared, I could have struck out every time at bat.

Even Mrs. Talbot back at the orphanage had been prouder of me.

Before dinner ended, I looked at Pamela and asked, “Did you ever play softball, Pamela?”

“Me? Of course not.” She sniffed. “Hardly.”

“Then how do you know you don’t like it?” I followed.

“What?”

“It’s like if you never tasted caviar but said you don’t like it.”

She looked at Peter. “Whatever is she saying?”

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