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To Kill A Mockingbird
tired“JEAN LOUISE FINCH! GET IN HERE RIGHT THIS MINUTE!”
“What’d ya do this time Scout?” asked Dill, “Not make ya bed?”
I felt like punching him right then and there. It didn’t matter if I wasn’t ten anymore. I didn’t care if I got the famous ‘You’re fifteen now and it’s about time you acted like it’ lecture from Aunt Alexandra. I wish Jem hadn’t moved away and gone to the big city. I was so lonely stuck in little old Maycomb County. It was all fine and dandy when you’re eight and can run around without shoes in the summer, but once you hit thirteen, well, it’s like the roof collapses on top of you and you’re stuck being like everyone else around you.
Dill was my only friend around here, and I was his only friend as well, so I guess you could say we were fairly close, closer than we had been five years ago anyway. Things hadn’t changed around here much. Boo still never came out, the black people were still hated and well, I was still the biggest tomboy the school yard had ever seen.
“Jean Louise if I have to come out there you’ll be in more trouble than you ever thought possible!” shouted Aunt Alexandra from the kitchen.
“Oh well,” I sighed, “Let the torture commence, and I walked slowly towards the kitchen door. I already knew what I was in trouble for. Aunt Alexandra was having some of her friends over for afternoon tea. That in itself wasn’t that odd. She’s been having friends around for tea since she moved in. What was different this time was that one of her friends war apparently bringing along her son, who and I quote ‘is very good looking from what I hear, and apparently he’s quite interested in you Jean Louise’.
Yes, you read that right. Aunt Alexandra is trying, and I mean trying to set me up with some boy! I mean come on! As if I’d be interested in boys! If you ask me they’re all idiots whose heads are filled with saw dust. Dill’s okay I guess and Jem’s the best friend I have, or rather had until he moved to New York.
I walked through the door frame into the kitchen to find Calpurnia cooking a whole batch of little fairy cakes. Now there wasn’t nothing strange about that at all and I sat down on the chair and watched her mix the batter around and around for so long that I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew, Aunt Alexandra was yelling at me and I had completely jumped outta my skin!
“I thought I told you to get changed half an hour ago Jean Louise! They’ll be here any second and you still look like you just rolled out of bed and didn’t bother to brush your hair!”
I didn’t know what she was complaining about. I looked perfectly fine. I just happened to be wearing my overalls, although to be honest I was only wearing them now days to annoy her. I have to admit, even though I did get in a heap of trouble, it sure was fun!
“I try and help you but oh no. you obviously want to grow up and become like that Mayella Ewell girl don’t you? I try and I try. If your mother could see you now she’s have a heart attack! Your dress and shoes are on your bed and I expect that you’ll be dress and ready in ten minutes.” and she stormed off in a fit.
“You know Scout,” said Calpurnia, “Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if you just obeyed her this one time. I know she’s a right royal pain in the neck, but she is trying, and maybe you should too. You never know what could happen.”
“Me, do what Aunt Alexandra tells me? Like that’s ever going to happen. I used to put up with her when Jem was around but now she just gets on me nerves every single minute of every single day. I can’t stand her!” I whined.
Oh well, at least I’m only stuck with her until I’m eighteen…