Old Enough

Pearl swung around the second my feet touched the kitchen tile and began the introductions to our new somebody hired for help. - "Well 'morning sleepy head, I got someone who wants to meet you!"- Yeah right, she's dying to meet me, the one who will give her some quick news, I am in need of no mindin' and I don't plan on listening to a dang word you say!-

"May, this is Sarah, Miss Sarah." Miss Sarah was taller than Pearl and peered from her Athena like head down to me, her new underling. I knew right then I would not, should not, cross my heart and hope to die, ever, never like her. Her hair was thick and bushy, kinda like Jolly's dandelion puff head but even bigger. How the heck was anyone gonna get a net around that head? A fishing net was more like it.

"Mae, can you say hello?" Pearl rolled her googlies to the side, so for her only, for me dear, beloved, wanna be forever mine, Pearl, I said with my lips still tight a strained hello.

Sarah had on bell bottoms and chunky black shoes. What the? Sarah had to be ten feet tall, lanky as a spindly wild elm shooting in all directions. On her ears were big red hoops, almost the size of a hula hoop. Surely Paw-Paw would never agree to this, huh. I wouldn't bet on it.

While they wandered around snooping in my house I put on my overalls, a bright red shirt so Clara would see me coming down the railroad tracks then stuck four, kinda mushy, jelly sandwiches down into my side pocket. The night before when Paw-Paw was snoring through the fuzzy grey zone when all channels roll endlessly to Mars, I went down into the musty basement and found his old camping supplies. It was there I saw the fishing net Sarah likely needed to contain that ball on her head. Anyway, I took the metal thermos with it's big red top and filled it with cold water and left it outside the side door, the one right off the kitchen.

It was now or never for my escape, I slipped on my canvas sneakers and called back sweet and innocently to Pearl without a single ounce of guilt. "Going out to play Pearl," then something slipped off my tongue, came straight up my throat right from my heart and popped right out of my unzipped mouth, "I love you Pearl." ~

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