Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini by Betsy Uhrig

Author:Betsy Uhrig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

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JAVIER WAS BACK MOMENTS LATER WITH his little sisters, Irene and Emilia, in tow. They did not look happy.

“It’s only going to take a few minutes,” said Javier to the girls. “All you have to do is get down on the grass—see where Marta is?—and poke Alex with little spears as he walks by. Okay? You like hurting Alex, don’t you?”

They did. Irene was nine and Emilia was five, and they didn’t agree on much. But they did agree that Alex in pain was good fun. They’d both been there the time I fell off the pogo stick, and I don’t think I’d ever seen them laugh harder. Irene was a shin kicker, and Emilia was a biter. I generally steered clear of them.

Javier gave each of them two spears, one for each hand, and positioned them opposite Marta, a few feet apart. “All set?” he asked them. They nodded. “And, action!”

This time through was much more painful. First, Irene stabbed well above sock height. She was obviously going for what she knew were my vulnerable shins. Second, Emilia grabbed my ankle as I went by and started stabbing me in the back when I fell. Then, before I had a chance to get up, Irene and Marta were on me as well, stabbing pretty much everywhere except my face, which I covered with my hands.

All three girls were shrieking like maniacs, and I was yelling at them to stop, when Javier called, “Cut!”

Irene and Emilia took this the wrong way and started sawing at me with the spears until Javier pulled them off. This took longer than it should have because he was laughing so hard.

I thought he was going to tell his sisters off for going overboard and make us try it again, but he said, “Great job, everyone. I think we’ve got what we need here.”

“What I need here is about a hundred Band-Aids,” I said. “What was that, anyway?”

“You’re not even bleeding,” said Marta.

“Can we do it again?” asked Irene. “We’ll stab harder.”

Emilia nodded eagerly. “Much harder.”

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