Sophie's Stormy Summer by Nancy N. Rue

Author:Nancy N. Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zonderkidz

Seven

Mama and Aunt Emily took Sophie, Fiona, and Darbie on several day-trips — to Norfolk to see the botanical gardens, to Charlottesville for a tour of Jefferson’s Monticello, and back to Virginia Beach. That took Sophie’s mind off Kitty during the day, but it was still hard when she was in bed at night, watching the shadows on her ceiling. She couldn’t help wondering what it was like for Kitty in that hospital room, chasing shadows of her own. Even for Sophie it was impossible to imagine.

So when Fiona begged for Sophie and Darbie to spend the night at her house one Thursday, Sophie practically held her breath for the whole hour it took for Aunt Emily finally to make the decision to let Darbie go. She just made Sophie and Fiona promise they wouldn’t talk about Kitty’s sickness or rehearse for their film.

“What ARE we gonna talk about then?” Fiona said to Sophie before Darbie arrived.

They were sitting in the breakfast nook eating some kind of dip Genevieve had whipped up and served with little triangles of toasted pita bread. Genevieve called it hummus. Sophie didn’t ask her what was in it. It tasted really good and she didn’t want to ruin it by finding out it was made from something gross.

“I mean, that’s what the Corn Flakes DO,” Fiona went on. “We make films and we help each other with problems.”

Dr. Bunting hurried into the kitchen, and Genevieve slid a zip-up lunch bag toward her on the counter.

“Tell them about camp,” Dr. Bunting said.

“Mom, I’m not going to tell them about camp because I’m not going,” Fiona said. She finalized that by stuffing an entire pita triangle into her mouth.

Fiona’s mother barely glanced at her as she adjusted her collar. “You go every year, Fiona.”

“Not this year,” Fiona said with her mouth full.

“You should have told your father that before he wrote the check.”

Fiona dunked another piece of pita into the hummus like she was trying to smother it.

“Nobody asked me,” she said.

Dr. Bunting finally looked at her. “I thought you loved that place. All the horses and tennis courts and sailboats — it’s better than Disney World.”

“I just can’t be gone for three weeks this summer,” Fiona said.

Sophie’s hand froze halfway to the dip bowl. Three weeks?Three weeks without Fiona — right NOW?

“What, Fiona?” Dr. Bunting said. “Do you have some agenda we don’t know about?”

“You don’t know anything about what I do.” Fiona muttered it so low her mom didn’t appear to hear it. Her mother flung the lunch bag over her shoulder by the strap and glanced at her watch.

“Your father already paid the tuition and it’s nonrefund-able,” she said, halfway out the back door. “You’ll be fine. Nice to see you, Sophie.”

Sophie could only stare at Fiona.

“I’m not going,” Fiona said. “She just doesn’t know it yet.”

She dropped the piece of pita into the hummus and scraped her chair away from the table. She was out of the kitchen in three steps, but not before Sophie saw tears filming her gray eyes.

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