Hey, Ho, Hollywood! by Deborah Gregory

Author:Deborah Gregory [Gregory, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4976-7717-3
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter

6

It’s so nice of Galleria’s folks to offer to pick us up and take us to Pepto B.’s salon, Churl, It’s You! Otherwise, Daddy would have probably insisted that he drive us. He thinks seven o’clock is kinda late for us to be out without a chaperone! Dag on, even Chanel can come home unescorted up until nine o’clock on school nights, and her mother is kinda strict. Our Daddy takes the cobbler, though.

I shoulda known something was up, though, when Galleria rings the bell at six o’clock. We’re not due at the salon till seven thirty, and it only takes ten minutes to get there.

“Toodles to the poodles! You fab-yoo-luss Walker twins, we’ve got a surprise for you!” Galleria says in her funny Southern accent.

She is definitely feeling better because she’s acting like herself. And when Galleria acts like herself, the whole world is a brighter place. Even the cheetahs in the jungle are probably smiling right now.

Angie and I have been feeling better too, because Reverend Butter’s sermon at church today did us a world of good. We crowd the front doorway of our building, waiting for Ms. Dorothea, Chanel, and Mr. Garibaldi to come in.

“You’re so lucky you don’t live in an elevator building,” Dorinda comments, coming in and kissing us hello.

That’s the truth. I would be scared to have to go up in an elevator every time I wanna get to my apartment. Like I told you, Angie and I are afraid of heights. That’s why Daddy got a ground floor apartment in a town house.

It’s quiet on our block, and we got a nice view of Riverside Park, so at least it feels a little like back home. I don’t know if I could take all that noise over where Dorinda lives. It’s good to hear a pigeon chirping every now and again.

Ms. Dorothea is taking some garment bags and stuff from the van, and Chanel is helping her carry them inside. Chanel works part time at Toto in New York … Fun in Diva Sizes, ’cuz she has to pay her mother back all the money she charged on her credit card.

See, I think Chanel lost her mind after we did that first show at the Cheetah-Rama. She started shoppin’ till we wuz all droppin’! I guess Chanel thought everything was gonna come real easy. But it’s not—you gotta work real hard just to hold onto your dream. By the time she came to her senses, Chanel owed her mother a whole lot of money! Lucky for her, Ms. Dorothea offered her the job at her store.

“What’s that?” Angie asks, pointing to the garment bags.

“You didn’t think we were gonna let you wear just plain ol’ anything to meet the biggest singer in the world, did you?” Galleria asks, batting her eyelashes.

“Now, I was gonna surprise you girls with your new outfits after you won the Apollo Amateur contest. But that was their loss. And anyway, now we have bigger prey to pounce on,” Ms.

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