Page 108 - Up Up and Away

"Stop it!" screamed Mirabel, pulling the doll away

roughly.

"That's not fair. You are not sharing!" yelled Twinkle.

Both girls were red in the face. Twinkle threw herself

on the rug and pounded the floor. Mirabel locked herself

and her doll in the bathroom, climbed into the dry

bathtub and stamped her feet, crying angry tears. Then

she remembered to breathe in and out, counting to

twenty. Needed another twenty. Then she peeked out at

Twinkle, and saw that her friend was crying too. They

calmed down as Twinkle explained that children of

Andalap were encouraged to take everything apart. Very

firmly Mirabel let Twinkle understand that she prized her

beautiful doll, and that taking it apart would ruin it.

"This is where we hug and forgive, right?" asked
Twinkle.

Mirabel was not quite ready, but she was graceful
about it and soon things were back to normal. Twinkle

was learning about her own and others' feelings.

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