Dash by Kirby Larson

Author:Kirby Larson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

The boys argued over how Ted should spend his quarter. Mitsi tuned them out. She also tuned out the chime of the cash register and the door creaking open and closed. All she could think about was Dash. She read the letter three times.

“Ready to head back, Mits?” Ted asked.

“What?” She shook her head, as if waking up from a long nap. Ted was munching on a long rope of something red. She shook her head again, coming back to earth. There was her brother chewing on a red licorice rope. She blinked. What was on that display behind him? Paper. Pens.

“In a minute.” She picked out and paid for some writing materials. Mom already had stamps.

Mitsi carried her purchases and the letter from Dash back to their room.

“I knew Dash could speak and roll over,” Pop teased, “but I didn’t know he could write.”

Mitsi made a little desk by balancing her suitcase on her knees. She thought hard about what she would write before she put one stroke of the pen to paper. She didn’t want to send a letter with any cross-outs. She knew it wasn’t Dash writing to her. Mrs. Bowker was just being nice. But it was fun thinking of writing to him. Fun to think of writing to her one true friend. And she didn’t know anyone else with a four-legged pen pal. She picked up the pen and began.

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