...is so sweet to be so rotten sometimes. We went to Lisa's tonight and when Dad came in a little later from having been to the store he gave her a Reese's Cup. She opened it and the little cardboard had an advertisement for something or other, and Mallory brought it into the kitchen where Mom, Lisa and I were talking...
She said, "Look! I got a ticket!"
We all gasped and oo'd and ahh'd.. thinking she was talking about the golden ticket from Willy Wonka..
I said, "Oh!" "You're going to the Chocolate Factory! Who are you going to choose to go with you? You get to take one person!"
I was just sure she'd pick me, but she fooled me, she picked Lisa.
Mom and I balked, and groaned and acted all hurt, "Oh no! What about us! We want to go too!"
She said, "No, guys, no it's not to the Chocolate Factory, it's a ticket for the Polar Express...I'm taking you all. I'm taking Lisa and Granny and you too, Mammy."
Mom and I shook our heads and said, "You can't take us all, you can just take one.. "
Mom told her, "I'm the one who gets you suffering toys!"
I said, "But I'm the one who takes good care of you!"
Lisa said, "But I'm the one who wants to go the hardest!"
Mallory looked at us with huge eyes, first one, then the other, then the other, and she said, "I can just take one?"
We all nodded, waiting to see who she'd pick and she just shook her head pushing the ticket away from her, "Then I don't wanna go."
Posted by juel at April 2, 2006 01:12 AM