Chapter 17
Mama was off work last Saturday so we drove up to see Bigmama and Bigdaddy. As we rode up the Bigdaddy Hill I imagined what it would feel like to go there everyday. What it would be like to call that road home.
It was like my stomach told all the nervous butterflies to take a hike, and invited happy ones to come live inside me now. Who knows, maybe I’m becomin’ a lucky girl. And I never even found one of those four leaf clovers!
The thought of actually havin’ a real live girl to play with is the best part of all. My invisible friend left me the same day I told God I hated him back. Anyways, I’m not gonna talk about that at all because I want to be lucky all the time now and I don’t want those horrible butterflies comin’ back.
My cousin Sandra and me are gonna be livin’ side by side! We’re gonna have pajama parties and play in the woods and do everything I’ve always dreamed of doin’ if Jason or Phil had been born a girl.
Sandra has long hair and I love brushin’ it, puttin’ in braids, and fixin’ it at the top of her head. Even though before when we would visit she would get on my nerves like crazy because she fell asleep every time I would run a brush around her head for more than five minutes. I always ended up havin’ to prop her up to finish.
Bigmama said she was just hypnotized by the good feelin’ she gets when somebody messes with her head. Humph! I thought to myself, she oughta let Mama get a hold of that head and I bet you money she would wake right up and start screamin’.
