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bottles home to use again for the next day. Mimi said that that was what we should try to do as our project. Somehow make everyone use their same bottles over and over
again. I tried to sound cheery and excited, but I was not 100 percent feeling very full of energy about anything today.
    HOW TO MAKE A BAD DAY WORSE
    Study the multiplication tables!
    Marta said there was some kind of trick that let you use your fingers to cheat when you did the number nine multiplication tables but she couldn't remember exactly what it was. So that was not so helpful. Robert Walters said he was going to ask his cousin because his cousin knew all about cheating. This was not such a big surprise and not hard to imagine.

    MY BAD DAY WAS NOT BAD AFTER ALL
    Mimi could not wait to get home to see Gwen. I pretended I was excited about that too. I did not want Mimi to know I was feeling bad inside. It was the kind of thing I would have told Augustine Dupre about, except she was in France for three weeks, so I couldn't. Augustine Dupre is my grown-up friend who lives in the fancy apartment in my basement. She is a good listener and an excellent solver of problems, so it really was bad luck that she was not around right now. She spends a lot of time in France because she is a flight attendant.
    Gwen was happy to see us again. Mimi's mom was there too. She said it had been a hard day. Then she gave Mimi some money
so we could all go and buy ice cream. This was not a normal afterschool thing for her to do. While we were eating ice cream Mimi wanted to know all about Gwen's day. Mimi was probably imagining that she had missed out on a lot of fun stuff. This kind of imagining was not true.
    WHAT GWEN DID THAT DAY
    1 Homework while Mimi's mom vacuumed the house.
    2 Reading while Mimi's mom talked on the phone.
    3 Grocery shopping with Mimi's mom.
    4 Sitting in a chair at the bank for a really long time with no magazine or anything to
look at while Mimi's mom talked to the bank people.
    5 More homework while Mimi's mom put the groceries away.
    It was no surprise that she was overjoyed to see us. She had had a very horrible, boring day.
    WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
    1 I went home and had dinner.
    2 Mimi called me to tell me that Gwen was going to get to come to school with us. And that even though she was a year older she was going to be in our same class. "That's great!" I said. Even though I was not 100 percent sure that it was.
    At least my conservation chart was easy to fill out.
    Will reuse my plastic water bottle every day.

    After that I decided to make my bottle more beautiful by drawing on it and gluing on some jewels.

    GOOD NIGHT
    When I looked out my window Gwen was holding Willoughby and Mimi was holding Bunny. I held up Fluffy. It was that kind of night.
    WALKING TO SCHOOL
    It was weird walking to school with Gwen, and then when Sammy and Max showed up it was even more weird because suddenly we were a whole gang. Sammy knew he wasn't supposed to say anything about Gwen's parents being gone, so he started asking her all sorts of strange questions instead. She probably thought he was crazy, but I could tell that he was trying to be sneaky and find out if her parents were spies. He was asking her stuff like...
Do you practice kung fu or karate at home?
    Is your house the kind with a secret room in the basement?
    Do you have a big satellite dish on top of your roof?
    Do you have lots of cool-looking remote controls all over?
    When we finally got to school Gwen whispered, "What's wrong with him?" I couldn't answer her back because we were all going to the same class and Sammy would have for sure heard me. And then right before we went into the room Mimi said, "I have to tell you something." This sounded very mysterious and exciting, and it filled my head with questions and wondering, which is not a good thing if you are supposed to be concentrating on schoolwork instead.
    ALL ABOUT GWEN
    Pretty much the whole morning was all about Gwen. She got a desk near the