Boardwalk Bust (15 page)

Lemonade? Yes, please.

Between the driveway and the kitchen, I was sure I could come up with something to tell them.
Something that wasn't the truth, but that would sound enough like it to satisfy them.

“Liar, liar, pants on fire!” Playback squawked, staring straight at me.

I put a hand on Joe's arm before he could go for the parrot.

“By the way,” Aunt Trudy said as we crossed the living room, “those sheets you folded last Saturday? All wrong. I had to do them over again—corners weren't lined up at all! When are you boys ever going to learn?”

“Now, Trudy,” Mom said, “the boys are all bruised and banged up. Let's not pester them about the sheets. After all, perfectly folded sheets aren't a matter of life and death.”

Ah, but how wrong she was!

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