She actually said this with a straight face. Slowly, oh so slowly, she placed my all-time favorite boots back in their tissue paper cocoon. Then, even more slowly, she sat back down and unlaced. She stood and did a few pliés and arabesques. Pointed, flexed, assumed ballet positions. She laced up each boot with excruciating care. I reached under the bed to get the shoe box and handed it to her.Īpe Face took her sweet time. She held out her hand to me like she was royalty and I was supposed to kiss her ring. I saved my allowance for three months to buy them.Īpe Face came over to my bed and sat down, one leg crossed over the other. These are my absolute favorite boots in the whole world and she knows it. The suede ones? said Ape Face, brightening. With three balls, no strikes, I couldn’t take the chance. I couldn’t tell if she was trying to scare me or if she meant it. Do you know that you are exactly ten seconds away from being grounded for life? It makes you look like you have something on top even when you don’t.Īpe Face narrowed her eyes at me. My Wonderbra?Īpe Face said, That’s very funny, Isabelle. Right, said Ape Face, and made a move toward the door. That is, before there was a gigantic ravioli stain on the front. There was a time when Ape Face would have gnawed off her own arm for this shirt. I went over to my bureau and pulled out my pink tank top. And anyway, just as a good batter never swings at the first pitch, Ape Face never takes the first offer. She wears a leotard to school, if that tells you anything. As if shutting doors means anything around here.Īpe Face wrinkled her nose. We stepped into my office, which doubles as a bedroom, and shut the door.
Of the items I own, here is what April wants: everything. Here is our business arrangement in times of crisis: bribery. But with Ape Face, you have to choose your words carefully. I wanted to call her the worst name I could think of-something I heard Jason Gullo call Ryan James in gym. With my head in the toilet.ĮuI removed my fingers from my throat and swallowed. Here’s how it happened: The week before school started, my ex-sister burst through the closed door of the bathroom we share and found me. Now Ape Face is ten and everything’s different. She used to respect the two most important laws of sisterhood: Thou shalt not spy and Thou shalt not report thy sister’s crimes to the authorities.
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