After the First Steeple Hands

Big Sister’s giggling has stopped but she isn’t gone, or maybe she is gone and off somewhere cool with G.D. and it's just me here alone out back.  Steeple Hands said I should look at the damage.  I search for the wig that fell off during all the cutting and that's when Big Sister breaks her silence.

"The impression you give isn’t the same as when Julio says he’s Tommy Hilfiger.  Kimmie isn’t anyone special like that," she says.

 I let that thought sink in a little while and see what grows out of it as I look at all the butchered trees in Ally's yard and wonder how long it will take their hair to grow back.  And I don't ask what Big Sister did with my hair.   I search for other things to get into as if being Kimmie isn't any big deal.

"Do you think Mickey will like me better if I'm a Wave girl?"

"You could tell him about how you'd like to be a Wave girl," Big Sister says.  "Do you see how this is better than lying?"

"Why don't I just tell him I'm Grizelda's girl."

"The way you say it, it is as if being Grizzly's daughter is the answer to every silly or stupid thing you've ever done."

I look at Ally's poor fruit trees and stumble back inside.

Grizeldasgirl: r u my boyfriend?

TommyHilfiger: y

Grizeldasgirl: r u Adrianna’s?

TommyHilfiger: y u want to know

Grizeldasgirl: r u my boyfriend?

TommyHilfiger: i don’t know