The End or Something Like That

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Author: Ann Dee Ellis
think we need to set them free.”
    I got nervous. Kim had a lot of ideas. In third grade I got grounded because Kim had decided to put gelatin in all the toilets.
    â€œWhat do you want to do?”
    She smiled. “It’s going to be epic,” she said.
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œTrust me,” she said.
    I sighed.
    So we got a bunch of trash bags and gathered all the animals in the house. My room, the rec room, we even went into Joe’s secret area of his closet and filled two bags.
    â€œHe’s going to kill us,” I said.
    â€œHe can’t kill us,” she said. “He’s a baby.”
    And she was right. Joe was a baby.
    We lugged them all out to the curb, making four trips.
    â€œYour grandma is insane,” Kim said.
    â€œI know.”
    Then we started sticking the animals to the light pole with duct tape.
    â€œWhy are we doing this?”
    â€œBecause it’s important,” Kim said, taping my Elmo on first.
    I watched her. Then I said, “We should do it by color.”
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œBy color.”
    I figured if we were going to do something like this, might as well be organized about it.
    Kim shrugged. “Okay.”
    So she taped and I handed her toys.
    We started with Mr. Polar Bear and Joe’s pair of bunnies and then we moved from white to gray with Hippy Hippo and a couple of elephants we got from the San Diego Zoo one time.
    An hour later we had stacked two chairs on my dad’s folding table.
    â€œI’m almost out of tape,” Kim said. “Maybe you should go ask Gabby for some?”
    We both looked across the street. Gabby Forster lived in the biggest house on the block. Gabby always wore bikinis, she never rode bikes or played night games, and one time she told us that her family’s beach house sometimes got rented by Jean-Claude Van Damme.
    So she was way cooler than us.
    Right then, while we were staring at her house, Gabby walked out.
    She was wearing a hot pink bikini, and she looked like a model.
    â€œWhat are you guys doing?” She yelled across the street, which was shocking. Like she cared.
    Kim taped a tiger next to Winnie-the-Pooh. “We’re protesting stuffed animal cruelty,” she yelled back.
    I tried not to laugh. Gabby scared me. Nobody scared Kim.
    Gabby walked over. “What are you doing?”
    I held a leopard up to Kim.
    â€œWe’re making a statement,” Kim said.
    â€œYeah, we wanted to make a statement,” I said, which was exactly what Kim just said.
    Gabby stared at the pole. “You guys are strange,” she said.
    I wanted to say something like
this was Kim’s idea
. I would never do this. I was not strange, I was normal. I am normal and cool, too. But instead I didn’t say anything.
    Then Gabby said, “Why are you doing this again?”
    â€œTell her, Emmy,” Kim said.
    I looked at her. “What?”
    â€œTell her why we’re doing this.”
    â€œUh.” I hated when Kim put me on the spot. “Uh.”
    â€œDon’t hold back,” Kim said. “We want the people to know.”
    â€œUh,” I said again. “We are concerned that stuffed animals are being . . .
    â€œUh . . .
    â€¢
    â€œStuffed animals are being treated unfairly?” I said. This was so dumb. We were so dumb.
    But Kim said, “Exactly. It’s atrocious.”
    â€œOh yeah,” Gabby said, a hand on her bony hip.
    Kim stopped taping. “For example, Gabby, where are your stuffed animals?”
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œLike right now.”
    â€œUh, I don’t have any stuffed animals.”
    Kim pointed a leopard at her and said, “Now that’s a lie. That is a horrible horrible lie. Statistics show that ninety-eight percent of the population has at least one stuffed animal in their bedroom. If not in their bedroom, within twenty feet of their bedroom.”
    Where did she come up with this
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