Who Won the War? by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54927-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2006-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Undercover Operation

Wally did not know when anything had felt weirder than having Eddie, Beth, and Caroline sleeping in his house. Here in the upstairs! In Jake and Josh's bedroom!

The twins had dumped all their stuff on the floor in Peter's room and were sprawled out now on their sleeping bags in Wally's room. But those sleeping bags alone took up most of the floor space. If Wally had to get up in the night, he'd have to take wide steps, putting his feet only on the places where there wasn't an arm or a leg.

“This stinks! They'll snoop through everything!” said Jake.

“I got most of the stuff out of our desks, though,” said Josh. “I got the journal I was keeping for a while, and all your baseball cards.”

Suddenly Jake gave a little cry and bolted upright. “Our underwear!” he gasped. “We didn't clean out the dresser! We left our underwear!”

Wally watched as Jake fell back on his sleeping bag, eyes closed. For once something humiliating was happening to Wally's brothers, not to him. He imagined Caroline coming down to breakfast in the morning with Jake's underpants on her head. He imagined Eddie going out to his mother's vegetable garden in the backyard and picking tomatoes for lunch, using Josh's underwear for a basket. He imagined Beth fastening little pink bows to the front of each pair.

“Man oh man!” he said, trying not to laugh. “That could be embarrassing.”

“We've got to get them out of there!” said Josh.

“The girls?” asked Wally.

“The underwear!” Jake and Josh howled together.

“What are you going to do? Sneak in there while they're asleep?” asked Wally. “Everyone's gone to bed.”

“I don't know. We'll think of something,” said Jake, and who knew what that something would be?

It had been a hot, miserable day, made worse by Wally's brothers' taking up all his floor space with their sleeping bags, and all the air with their complaints— Jake's in particular. Not only that, but their shoes stank! All Wally wanted to do was fall asleep and forget how many people were in his house just now.

Once, in the night, Wally had to go to the bathroom. He did not want to go out into the hall and bump into a Malloy girl. Maybe he could hold it in till morning, he thought. He turned onto his left side. He turned onto his right. He couldn't hold it in much longer.

Finally he got out of bed, edged his way around his brothers, and slowly opened his bedroom door so that it wouldn't creak. Then, in his tiger pajamas, he stepped out into the hall and took a step toward the bathroom. There, coming straight toward him, was Caroline Malloy in her Little Mermaid pajamas. A tiger and a mermaid did not mix at all.

He knew that Caroline, being a guest, should be allowed to go to the bathroom first. But Wally's feet kept moving. He made it two steps ahead of Caroline. He slipped inside and locked the door. When

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