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Chapter #4
She's a growing girl.
by: Unknown
Becky tried to button her shorts, but her belly, swollen from the food she had eaten, didn’t want to close. She struggled for a bit, but had to leave them open.
“Something wrong?” her mother asked.
“Mommy, my shorts don’t want to button.”
Her mother looked at them. “Those shorts were getting too old anyways. We’ll have to buy some new clothes for you today.”
After dropping Josh at a friend’s house, Jo took her daughter to the department store. “Want some ice cream, Becky? You never had dessert back at the buffet.”
“Yeah!” said Becky. Jo drove the drive-thru of a nearby Dairy Queen, letting her daughter order a large cookie dough blizzard. Becky had finished most of it when they parked at the department store.
They went into the kids section, and Jo looked through the girls clothing. “Something a size or two bigger, so we can grow into it. See anything you like?”
Becky pointed to a pair of green shorts just like the ones she was too big for. Unfortunately, they were the exact same size.
They don’t have much here for a girl of Becky’s physique, Jo thought. Kids grow in strange ways in these years. She led Becky to another part of kids clothing, which happened to be husky sizes. Becky didn’t notice the difference. Finally, Jo found a few pairs of pants that would fit Becky.
As they drove away Jo glanced at the clock. “Josh has his baseball game at three o’clock. Did you want to go see it? Or I could leave at home for a few hours.”
Becky pondered. She had seen plenty of her brother’s baseball games, but they did serve great hot dogs at the community park's concession stand.
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