Read Tighter(6) online free by Adele Griffin

Tighter(6)
Author: Adele Griffin

At my school, you’d get your butt kicked for inflicting anything that tedious on your fellow students. But I could already see that Isa was a more fragile specimen than Mags and me at the height of our wedgie-yanking, middle school powers.

“Here.” Connie was hopping down the steps to shove the money through the passenger-side window at the cab driver. “It’th not much but it’th not my fault, either, hadn’t got a chanth to get into town to …” Whatever she said next was obscured by wheels spinning as the driver took his lame tip and roared off.

Whoever had arrived, I wouldn’t be making a killer impression. Not in my wet clothes and sweaty face. Isa herself was adjusting one of her dress straps and shaking back her hair.

“Is it Dad? It’s Dad, right?”

“No,” said Connie, “it’th Dr. Hugh. And he’th only thtaying for dinner, and don’t bother him for caramel.”

“Dr. Hugh, cool.” Though Isa still looked disappointed as she darted into the house. “Dr. Hyoooooo! Did you bring me any caramels?”

“Her thychiatritht,” explained Connie. “He popped over to check in. Hardly enough dinner for everyone, but there’th nothing I can do.”

I followed her into the house and to the kitchen, where a man who looked like one of the Smith Brothers cough-drops guys—the one with the Guitar Hero beard—stood formally in his summer suit accepting the glass of lemonade Isa had poured him.

But as soon as I entered, the doctor’s eyes snapped like...

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