Page 37 of Alice & Meg: Summer Vacation
“You must be Alice,” she said, shaking my hand firmly as I made my way over from the bar.“I’m Callie.Thanks for watching over my sister.”
“She fits right in with us,” I smiled.
April hugged everyone, exchanged numbers with Adley, and then waved goodbye.As I went back to the blender, I reached in to clean it out and found a tiny plastic turtle sitting right in the bottom.
“What in the actual…?”I held it up.It was lime green and smiling at me like it had a secret.
“No!”Meg shrieked.“Not the blender!”
“I swear I didn’t put it there,” I laughed.
“I found one on the toilet tank earlier,” Reva said as she came out of her room, wrapped in a towel.“I screamed.Hero thought I saw a spider.”
“Who is doing this?”Meg groaned.“They’re everywhere!”
“I still think it’s Greta,” I whispered to Wrecker.
He just grunted, already halfway through his second margarita.
Adley floated around in the pool, humming to herself while Reva and Hero went for a walk.That left Meg, King, Clash, Raven, Wrecker, and me sitting around the table by the pool, margaritas in hand.
I started talking about my cows.
“So Blanche and Dorothy are the calmest.Rose is a sweetheart but dumb as a brick.Sophia runs the damn pasture.And then Elvis and Priscilla keep trying to break into the garden.”
Clash nearly spit his drink.“You named your cows afterThe Golden Girlsand Elvis?”
“You act surprised,” Meg said.
“You’re telling me if I get a cow, I should name it Bea Arthur?”Raven asked.
“Only if you’re lucky enough to get one as majestic,” I winked.
Meg leaned into King.“Wouldn’t it be cute if we had a little farm?Maybe some goats?A couple of chickens?”
“Hell to the no,” King barked.
Wrecker clapped him on the back.“Keep saying that.Next thing you know, you’ll be in overalls wrangling ducks while your wife names the rooster Fabio.”
“Fabio!”I laughed.“That’s going on the list.”
Wrecker shook his head.“I ended up on a big-ass farm with more animals than I can count.Luckily, I’ve got three kids to do the dirty work when we leave.”
Reva and Hero returned with giant snacks.Reva with a cloud of pink cotton candy and Hero with a bag of kettle corn.
“Where’d you get that?”Meg asked, eyes wide.
“Around the corner,” Hero said.“It’s still open.”
Meg looked at me.“You want one?”
“Duh.But I’m not getting up.”
Meg sat back smugly.“Watch this.”
King and Wrecker groaned and stood.
“Where are you going?”Adley called from the pool.
