Hide & Go Seek
2008; University of Iowa; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.6528
ISSN2330-0361
Autores ResumoHide & Go Seek"Put some on me."Melissa Lark stood on the toilet seat.Nora swept pink blush upwards along her cheeks and then squinted through one eye the way the makeup man on a set would do."Such a pretty girl," she said, turning back to the mirror."More."With one hand, Melissa pushed her dark hair back from her forehead, the gesture of a grown woman."On my eyes, like you."Nora opened the plastic case."Close them tight."Melissa's lashes quivered as Nora passed the brush once, twice over each eyelid, leaving behind a dusting of brown sparkle."Let me see."Melissa held out her arms, and Nora swung her onto her hip.Reflected in the mirror, both faces surrounded by dark curls, they smiled at each other."You're pretty anyway, you know, without this gunk," Nora said.Melissa shook her head, removing the two fingers she'd stuck into her mouth."I want to show my daddy."She took Nora's hand as they left the bathroom, her wet fingers sticky against Nora's palm."All set?" Joanna was in the kitchen scraping corncobs into the trash.She straightened."Wow, you look nice."She was still in the shorts she'd worn all day, as was Todd.He sat on the couch, leafing through a magazine, while Emmylou Harris crooned a sad-hearted song."Daddy!"Melissa ran to him."Nora put eye stuff on me!" "Oh dear," Nora said."I just assumed it was a party.""It is a party," Melissa said."Daddy, look!" "We stay pretty casual around here," Joanna said, rinsing plates.Todd held Melissa's chin and tilted her face this way and that."Wow!" he said, and whistled."You're ready for a party, all right.""Did you tell Nora thank you, Melissa?" Joanna closed the dish washer and pushed buttons."I can't think when I last put on mas cara even.
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