A Side of Sabotage: A Quinnie Boyd Mystery

A Side of Sabotage: A Quinnie Boyd Mystery — page 7
and Dominic around made it easier And now my best friend from birth Zoe is coming home But Dominic is leaving I take a deep breath of salty air and let the late morning sun warm my face I feel the gravelly sand beneath my flip-flops Why can’t I pick and choose what happens And how it happens Why why why I ask you Ben jogs ahead of us then doubles back burning off energy I really need to run today he says Ella throws her arm around my neck and touches heads with me Q you need to try my newest nail color Blissful Blue Azure I laugh This girl She’s turned me into a sparkly toenail-polish wearer just like her And woo hoo when Zoe comes home tonight my two best friends will finally meet I’ve been telling them about each other for more than a year and soon they’ll be in the same place Sure they’re about as different as chocolate chocolate pudding and lemon pie Ella is a questioner like me A digger-into-problems And yes this gets us into some tricky situations Zoe on the other hand is super cautious When we were eight she wouldn’t even help me crawl across the beam in Ms Stillford’s carriage house so I could dangle from a rope like a trapeze artist I mean seriously 2