[age 11]
I see a girl sitting there under the tree and I can't help but go over. She's alone with a book in her hands, smiling. She flips the page and her laugh cartwheels across the ground to me.
"I'm June," I say. She looks up at me with zinger bright blue eyes, somehow I just know I'm going to marry her. I think I'll have to wait till we're at least seventeen to propose though.
"You hungry?" She asks and offers up half of her sandwich. I bite into it. Peanut butter.
"What are you reading?" I ask with my mouth full.
"Alice in Wonderland," she replies.
"What's it about?"
"A girl chasing a talking rabbit and falling down a rabbit hole."
"Cool." I smile.
"You wanna play noughts and crosses?"
"Yeah," I say. She beat me. She always beats me.
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Lavender Monarch has Exactly Thirteen Fears
ספרות נוערLavender Monarch has exactly thirteen fears. She knows this because she has them written down on a list she carries with her everywhere. Lavender has made a promise to herself that she will face and overcome every one of these fears. That is, excep...
