Boys Against Girls
“It had rained Saturday morning—a cold November rain—gray sky over gray trees over a gray landscape—the kind of day that made Eddie wish for baseball summers, Beth to wish for warm July days of hammock reading, and Caroline to fantasize herself under bright lights in a packed auditorium, with her name, of course, on the marquee.“What we need,” Eddie said, lying on the floor, tossing a baseball up in the air and catching it while flat on her back, “is something that would make a great paw print. ...We could go over to the Hatfords’ after dark and make paw prints in the wet ground, right up that dirt path to their back door.”It was a better idea than Caroline had ever thought of herself, and Beth—who lived half her life inside her head along with vampires and headless horsemen—at once put her mind to the kind of paw prints an abaguchie might make.They went outside to experiment in the damp earth of Mother's empty flower bed, and discovered that by pressing the palm of their hands down in the dirt, then using the thumb to make prints for the toes, they had a good imitation of an animal's paw print—something resembling the print of a large cat.After that they worked to make it look real, placing the paw prints almost in front of each other, the way a large cat might go slinking about.Evening could not come quickly enough.MoreLess
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