Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel?? by Carol Gorman

Author:Carol Gorman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781453296172
Publisher: Open Road Media

CHAPTER EIGHT

“HOW’D IT GO?” Mary Ann stood on the front porch, peering through the screen. We’d just finished supper.

“Horrible.” I went out on the porch and gave her a nudge. “Let’s go in the backyard. I don’t want anybody to hear this.”

We walked around back and through the gate. My dog, Bob, was barking at a squirrel or something, but he bounded over to us. I dragged Mary Ann to the maple tree, away from the open windows.

“So what happened?” Mary Ann asked, scratching Bob’s neck while he slobbered on her.

“At the end of the practice, Ms. Landers gave us comments. She said—in front of everybody—that I should get a bra!”

Mary Ann looked horrified. “Lisa heard?”

“Everybody heard! I can’t go back. It’s too embarrassing.”

“Especially with Lisa there,” Mary Ann said.

A stick fell on my head, and I brushed it off.

“I’m not going back.”

“But don’t you want to go to Chicago?” Mary Ann said. “You’ve come so far.”

“Besides, I’ll probably start hiccuping during the show, anyway.”

“You won’t hiccup.”

“Right,” I said. “Just like in fourth grade.”

“I’ll go to the mall with you after school tomorrow,” Mary Ann said. “We’ll get you a bra.”

I thought about that. “Well, I suppose I should get one.”

“It’s time.”

“It is?”

“Yes. You should start wearing a bra.”

A high, screechy voice came from overhead. “Yeah, Lizard, you should start wearing a bra!”

Horrified, I looked up into the tree. Sam was sitting up in the branches, laughing!

“You jerk!” I yelled. “You creep, you eavesdropper! Come down here; I’ll knock your head off!”

“Come on, Lizard.” Mary Ann grabbed my arm, but I shook her off furiously.

“Come down here, Sam!”

“Go get your bra, Lizard!” he screeched. “It’s time!”

“I’m going to kill him,” I said. I grabbed hold of a lower branch and started to pull myself into the tree. Mary Ann hauled me back down.

“Come on, Lizard,” she said. “Let’s go for a walk.”

“I don’t want to walk. I want to seriously injure my brother.”

“Lizard!” Mary Ann kept a firm grip on me. I knew she wouldn’t give up and let me climb into the tree.

“Let’s get out of here,” I said, and I stalked out the gate.

“Go get that bra, Lizard!” the rat called after me, loud enough so the whole neighborhood could hear.

“I’m going to kill him.”

“Let’s go to the mall tomorrow,” Mary Ann repeated. “We’ll get you a bra.”

“I’ll have to wait for just the right moment, when he isn’t expecting it.”

“The clerk who waited on me last summer was very nice.”

“Maybe I can set up a booby trap in his room.”

“Lizard?”

“What?”

“Let’s go to the mall tomorrow and get you a bra.”

“You really think I need one?”

“Yes.”

“Okay. But I’m not going back to those rehearsals. And the next time I get Sam alone—”

“Tomorrow after school,” she said.

“Whatever.”

I saw Ginger at our locker the next morning. Five seconds, I thought, and she’ll say it. Four, three—Ginger turned and saw me—two, one …

“I heard what Ms. Landers said to you in front of the whole world!” Ginger said.

Right on cue. But I was ready for her.

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