ariella (4) the great scrutinizer
DIFFICULTY: OOOH, THAT’S GONNA HURT
intro…Cheryl writes a letter to an old friend, with whom she had once shared a house before moving to New Orleans to live with her boyfriend Tucker. The whole letter is about a young girl that lives next door, with whom Cheryl appears to have an uneasy relationship, not least because of the girl’s mother.
the great scrutinizer
One day I came home and _____ it was summer Ariella was _____ school and maybe she went for a few days to a day camp. There was a small envelope in my mailbox _____ said “Cheer _____ ! Have a good day! From Ariella (the little girl next door).”
I opened up the envelope and there was a smiling wooden clothespin with googly eyes glued to it and I panicked. I called my Mom and asked her what I should do. She said, Thank her. I said I’m afraid she wants something. Don’t scrutinize everything so much, Mom said.
clothespin … kolík na prádlo
googly eyed … o?i v konstelaci podobné této
glue … p?ilepit
scrutinize … podrobn? zkoumat
I didn’t know what I wanted to give her. I couldn’t just knock on her door and thank her face to face. I ended _____ picking some flowers I _____ grown and leaving them with a note on her front step one morning before I left _____ work. I still don’t know if she got them. _____ the middle of the summer I stopped seeing her on the side stoop so much. She got her bike and started riding.
Her mother casually says to me one morning, Sorry if I was beating on your door and ringing your doorbell and screaming for help last night. My boyfriend had too much _____ drink and _____ a little crazy. I thought he was going to kill me. That’s why the police were here. I told him _____ to come around _____ more, but I don’t know.
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