Bean you didn’t see my pink yarn did you Oops Bean tried to roll behind the couch but Nancy saw her Bean Do you have my pink yarn No said Bean That was true She didn’t have it She would never have it again 10
Nancy looked at her slitty-eyed Do you know where it is No Who knew where it was by now Nancy’s eyes got even slittier Have you seen it recently Recently Mom Bean took my yarn Before she knew it Bean was having to look around her room for her money She changed hiding places so often that it was hard to remember where she kept it exactly She had to give Nancy seven dollars to buy new yarn Seven dollars Now she only had two dollars and some coins left And the yarn hadn’t even worked Bean had fallen out of the tree anyway Bean’s mom was under her desk She was doing something with wires and Bean could 11
tell she wasn’t having much fun because she kept saying Oh for crying out loud and Gee-Zoo Pete Hi Mom said Bean into the crack between the desk and the wall Oh Hi said her mom Hold on to this cord a sec will you She shoved a black wire up through the crack Bean didn’t take it Only if you pay me What Only if you pay me There was a silence Then Bean’s mom began to back out from under her desk Bean started to have a bad feeling Sorry she said quickly I’ll hold the cord for free But now her mom was all the way out Now she was standing Now she was glaring Did I hear 12
