was red and yellow fire truck colors her favorites At least the bracelets started out as pink and purple and red and yellow After a month the matted yarn looked more like different shades of gray and beige Today Isabel and Zoë were sitting side by side in the lunchroom wearing their gray and beige bracelets Zoë pulled her sandwich out of her bag and made a face Yuck BLAA
What Isabel asked Seeds Zoë said She meant in the bread Zoë didn't like bread with seeds because the seeds looked like dirt Last week Isabel's nanny had packed a pickle in the same container as her sandwich and the bread got the mushes from the pickle juice Isabel didn't like mushy food Zoë had traded sandwiches with her then so Isabel offered to trade now Isabel took a big bite of Zoë's sandwich It was cheese but she said Yum A dirt sandwich Both girls started laughing so hard they couldn't eat at all
This happened a lot First they would trade sandwiches then Isabel would be eating dirt Or they'd be reading quietly in the book nook then they'd be doing gymnastics on the pillows Or they'd be sitting in side by side cubicles in the bathroom whispering about lizards in the toilet then they were lizards escaping the toilet racing down the hall with toilet paper tails streaming from the backs of their pants They had a very big amount of fun together most of the time TM 12Y LIZZY The lunch monitor came over because
they were laughing so loudly More chewing and swallowing from you two please she told them Zoë didn't like getting in trouble She stopped laughing so Isabel did too Lunch was a smaller amount of fun then After lunch they went outside to play How about we make more dirt food Isabel said Ha ha ha Zoë laughed They ran off to find some dirt Easy It was everywhere They dug some out of the ground and shaped it into pies We need more ingredients Zoë said They stirred in some sand and crumbled pine cones then reshaped the pies
