‘Exactly, mom.’ I looked at her scornfully.
‘Yes, I could have. But then I would have deprived you of the experience you had this morning. Wasn’t it better this way that your friends told you about it? Now you know that they really love you. What if I had told you beforehand? Not to mention that you wouldn’t have believed me.
‘OK, you’re right,’ I smiled thinking back at their very serious faces, and the good feeling I had when I realized that they were just kidding, and they were really my friends. ‘And what do you think of Ashley? Unbelievable, isn’t it? Especially, when I think that she was spying on us.’ I crawled up to mom and felt like I was a little girl again. When she is here, I can’t be harmed.
‘Ashley is sick, Arlene. I also got to know a couple of things, and I believe that
