Lily's in London?! by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue [Rue, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-54612-2
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2003-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

She wrote to Mudda about her talk with Sister Benedict too.

I don’t understand what she means about staying lost and letting God find me. Won’t that just make me and everybody else more miserable? I’m sick of that. I can’t think of the best part of today.

She was just signing off when Tessa yelled from the kitchen, “Phone, Lily! It’s Kimble. She says she has something to tell you.”

“Tessa — would you zip it?” Joe yelled from the living room. “I can’t hear the TV!”

“What’s going on?” Dad yelled from atop the library ladder in the same room.

“Why is everyone yelling?” Mom yelled from upstairs.

Lily took the phone from Tessa and sat on the floor in the kitchen with her hand over the ear that wasn’t squeezed against the receiver. Another thing Shirty Sheggs should have bought was a cordless phone.

“It sounds as if you’re having a ruddy debate over there,” Kimble said.

“What’s up?” Lily asked.

“I told you not to forget that I am brilliant, didn’t I?”

“Uh-huh.”

“I am about to prove it to you. I have found two little chums for that blithering sister of yours to hang ’round with, so you don’t have to look after her every day of your life.”

“You did?” Lily said.

“Of course I did. I looked ’round among the first-formers — they’re about eleven years old — and found two that I think can hold their own. Neither of them play footie, so she can’t do them any bodily harm on the playing field, and they can both talk your face off, as it were, so she won’t be able to dominate the entire conversation, as she is wont to do.”

Lily had to laugh. Kimble was talking like Dad. She was hanging around the Robbinses’ dinner table way too much.

“So,” Kimble went on, “when shall we put these three little urchins together? Tomorrow?”

“You’ll have to bring them over here.”

“Oh yes, the inspection by Mummy and Daddy. I’ll make sure there’s no fooling ’round and that neither one of them is showing her tattoo.”

“They have tattoos?”

“Just joking. You really need to get out more, Lily. You can’t become a bore.” Lily could picture her smiling slyly. “But that is the whole point of this, now, isn’t it?”

Lily felt a pang of misgiving as she hung up the phone. This sounded sneaky. But on the other hand, this could mean not having to spend so much time with Tessa. It would be one less reason to be cranky, which was getting her into trouble. Feeling a glimmer of hope, Lily did some mental preparation and then approached Mom and Dad, who were up in their bedroom, seemingly in a deep discussion. They interrupted their conversation long enough to listen to her. She hoped she sounded as if she wanted to help Tessa and make things better for the family.

I guess I do, she thought. But mostly I’m doing this for me.

Mom and Dad agreed to meet “the two little urchins” — and then looked as if they wished Lily would leave so they could go back to what they were discussing.

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