Page 45 of Deciding for Little Dallas
Dallas bounced her foot impatiently as she waited on her friends to join them in the nursery. She needed to hold a Little Council Meeting.??
“Here are the sticker sheets, Dallas,” Nanny J said, setting them down in front of her.
“Thank you, Nanny J,” she said, giving the teacher her sweetest smile, hoping she wasn’t being suspicious.
“You’re welcome, sweet girl,” Nanny J said, stroking her curls. “What are you working on so early this morning? Is it more for your Halloween card for your Daddy?” the teacher asked, motioning to the very elaborate card on the drying rack. It had started with just some stamps and paint, but with every day that passed, Dallas added more to the card. It looked more like a book now. She’d created pictures of all the fun things she and Daddy had done since arriving at the Ranch.
“I think it’s more like a Halloween Book,” Dallas admitted.
Nanny J smiled. “I bet it will be a very special book to your Daddy. I know he is going to love it.”
Dallas smiled. She hoped her Daddy loved it. She was going to give it to him on Halloween morning!
“If you’re not working on something for your craft, what are you working on?” Nanny J asked again.
Darn that woman. Couldn’t she just drop it?
Dallas looked down at the scraps of paper covering what she was really working on.
“It’s a Halloween surprise,” she said, hoping that it?didn’t count as a lie. It was for Halloween and it was definitely a surprise.
“Well, I can’t wait to see it all finished,” Nanny J said before going to greet Tommy at the door.
Dallas looked down at the pieces of prank she had in her hand. She bet if the teacher knew what she was doing, she could wait to see it. Dallas' heart beat and her tummy bubbled as she continued to cut circles in the sticker sheets.
“Whatcha doing?” Tommy asked, sitting in a chair beside her.
“I’ll explain when everyone is here. Can you cut lots of circles quickly?”
He nodded.
“If Nanny J comes this way, you gotta put some paper over the circles, okay?”
“This feels very naughty,” he said, cutting quickly. “Didn’t you spend time with Sadie this weekend?”
She nodded.
“It is naughty then! What has she influenced you to do?”
“Is maybe a tiny bit naughty.”
He shot her a look that let her know he knew she was fibbing, but she didn’t have time to think about it too much. They needed hundreds of circles.
Eloise, Natalie, Hadley and Lori soon filled the chairs around the small art table.
“We need lots of big circles in white, medium circles in light pink, and teenie-tiny dark pink circles.”
She was humbled by the fact her new friends jumped into action with no questions asked.
“Istillthink we should know what we’re getting into,” Tommy mumbled.
“We’re going to make boo-bies,” Dallas finally answered, swallowing a nervous giggle.
“We’re going to what?” Eloise asked, raising her eyebrows.
“We are going to pull off the best prank of twenty-twenty-five,” she said, hoping she sounded confident.
“Oh no, I knew Sadie influenced you,” Tommy groaned.
