Babbler Excerpt No. 3

Thea: Remy gets everything
Reprinted courtesy of The Beemer Babbler

The flesh of her neck still bearing scarlet testimony to Erin's displeasure [see Babbler Excerpt No. 2], Thea Beemer directed a salvo of bitter resentment toward a new and perhaps more dangerous target. Contending that her sister Remy is really the one who gets everything, she cited 1995 all-district varsity softball honors, a recently acquired State of Michigan driver's license, and a steady supply of male admirers as support for this hypothesis.

When presented with her own long inventory of recent and forthcoming acquirements—to wit, her elevation (in only her sophomore year) to the role of starting forward for the Dondero varsity soccer team, her selection for Royal Oak's premier U-19 soccer squad (with a personal apology from the coach for passing her over last time), her attendance and spectacular performance at Oakland U's five-day soccer camp for advanced players (her fourth such program), and the new varsity jacket her dad's going to buy her this fall—she responded angrily, "We're not talking about Thea, we're talking about Remy!"

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