“Happy birthday, Kayli!” My mother greeted me as I dragged myself into the kitchen and plopped into a chair.“Thanks” I moaned in response. How could it be morning already? “What’s wrong?” “Solomon puked on my bed in the middle of the night. I had to take a shower, give that stupid dog a bath, and change my sheets at 2:00 a.m.!” My mom made some sympathetic noises and handed me a glass of O.J. I finished breakfast and got ready for school, hoping that my day would be better than my night had been. An hour later I walked through the school doors, and so far it didn’t look promising. “Whoa! What happened to you?” Ella, my best friend, greeted me as I walked into school with the rest of our friends not far behind her. They all had to make a comment on my appearance. “Hey, Frosty, where’s your corncob pipe and button nose?” “Geez, Kayli, did you walk here?” “Hey Rudolph, what’s up?” “Enough already! I missed the bus. Okay?” I was bright red from the cold and wrapped in every article of clot
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