Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal - Barbara Park [5]
Lucille runned to the box speedy quick.
“Let’s play Cinderella!” she said.
She pulled out a beautiful, sparkly pink gown.
“I’M CINDERELLA!” she shouted.
Then that Grace shoved me out of her way. And she runned to the box, too.
She pulled out a sparkly blue gown.
“I’M THE FAIRY GODMOTHER!” she yelled.
I did a huffy breath at those two. ’Cause now I had to be the ugly stepsisters, probably.
I bended down and searched through the box very careful.
Then all of a sudden, my hands felt something long and silky and softie.
I quick pulled it out of there.
The nanna’s whole face lighted up.
“Oh my goodness! My old feather boa!” she said. “Why, I haven’t seen that thing in years!”
I danced all around with that lovely thing.
“I love this, Nanna! I love this old feather boa!”
Just then, another great idea popped in my brain.
“Hey! I know! I will be the famous singer that sings at Cinderella’s ball!”
Lucille and Grace looked funny at me.
“What singer?” said Lucille.
“There’s no singer,” said that Grace.
I stamped my foot at them.
“Yes, there is! There is, too, a singer! And I am her! And my name is Florence the Famous Singer! And I will be performing show tunes from the hit musical Annie! So there!”
Lucille and Grace shrugged their shoulders at me.
Then they dressed up in their beautiful gowns.
And they went to the ball.
And I sang “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.”
6/Bouncing
After we finished playing Cinderella, the nanna called us to dinner.
Me and Lucille and that Grace skipped into the big dining room. We sat at a long, shiny table.
Pretty soon, Lucille’s nanna came in from the kitchen. And she gave us our dinner.
And guess what?
Its name was beans and Frank!
“Hurray!” I said. “Hurray for beans and Frank! ’Cause this is my favorite kind of home cooking!”
The nanna did a teeny smile.
“Well, we usually have a cook. But I gave her the night off,” she said.
After that, the nanna poured milk into beautiful sparkly glasses.
“Oooo, Nanna! These are your best crystal glasses!” said Lucille real thrilled. “I love these expensive things!”
“Me, too! I love these expensive things, too!” I said.
Only too bad for me. ’Cause nobody even told me that crystal glasses were very heavy.
And so when I picked up my glass, it slipped right out of my hand.
And it fell on the floor!
And it broke into lots of pieces!
Lucille’s whole mouth came open.
“OH NO! YOU BROKE IT! YOU BROKE MY NANNA’S CRYSTAL GLASS!”
The nanna’s face was reddish and scrunchy.
“Sorry, Nanna,” I said real soft. “Sorry I broke your crystal glass.”
The nanna sucked her cheeks way into her head.
“Let’s just try to be more careful, shall we, dear?” she said.
I bobbed my head up and down.
“We shall,” I said back.
After that, I ate my beans and Frank very careful. Only pretty soon, my Frank spilled off my fork. And he landed on the nanna’s white tablecloth.
“OH NO!” hollered Lucille. “THAT’S MY NANNA’S GOOD LINEN TABLECLOTH! SHE BROUGHT IT ALL THE WAY FROM IRELAND!”
The nanna’s face was twisty and puffy.
I quick pushed my plate away from me.
My stomach felt in a tight knot.
“Yeah, only guess what? I am not actually hungry anymore. And so I will just sit here and not spill anything, I think.”
The nanna cleaned up my messes with a wet cloth.
After she finished, she brought us chocolate ice cream for dessert.
Only too bad for me. ’Cause a teeny plop of ice cream dropped right off my spoon. And it landed on my chair cushion.
The nanna did a big breath.
“You’re a bit of a bull in a china shop, aren’t you, dear?” she said.
“Sorry, Nanna,” I said. “Sorry, sorry, sorry.”
The nanna patted my hand very stiffish.
“Quite all right,” she said kind of mumbly.
After that, I got down from the table. And me and my friends went back to Lucille’s room.
And guess what?
Things got funner!
’Cause Lucille said we could play with the games in her closet! On account of they weren’t even expensive!
First, we played Chutes and Ladders. Then we played Twister and Bingo and Chinese checkers and