The Time Telephone by Connie Lacy

Author:Connie Lacy [Lacy, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999608449
Publisher: Wild Falls Publishing
Published: 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

Bombs bursting in air

I double dog dare

You to stand over there

And explode everywhere.

I pulled a pad and pen out and wrote the words down. Then I added more.

You really don’t care

If danger is there

You two are a pair

Say a prayer, ma mere.

“Say a prayer, ma mere,” I whispered.

I put my pen and notepad away and stood up, glancing in the mirror and smoothing my white top. I thought about going home, but that would make me seem like a jerk. I had to play along. So I set out in search of the flamboyant penguins. Halfway down the mall I spied the flock rushing towards me.

“Where have you been?” Rikki cried.

“Yeah, we were worried,” Amber said.

“Where have you been?” I demanded in my best, girls-having-fun-at-the-mall voice. “I thought you guys had found some gorgeous hunks to hang with!”

They laughed.

“Let’s go see a movie,” Rikki said.

As we moved through the crowded mall she explained how she and I had gotten separated and how she looked for me. I joined in and told them how I’d searched for her and then gone back to the dressing rooms to find them empty.

Everyone was giggling again and flirting and talking a mile a minute. We picked a dopey movie, bought buttered popcorn and Cokes and stuffed ourselves, cracking jokes all the way through the previews and the feature so that a middle-aged woman with short brown hair and glasses shushed us. In other words, everyone had a good time. Except for me. But no one was the wiser.

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