Her Evil Twin by Mimi McCoy Read Free Book Online Page A

table to eat her cereal. She spooned it into her mouth, chewing furiously, but she didn’t taste a thing. She was so mad she could hardly think straight.
    The nerve of Dory, trying to get her in trouble like that! The sympathy Anna had felt for her just moments before had vanished.
    When she’d finished eating, Anna prowled around the house, looking for something to do, but she was too worked up to focus on anything. Every time she thought about Dory, she felt angry all over again.
    Finally, Anna put on her sneakers and her jacket, got her bike out of the garage, and pedaled the few blocks to Dory’s house.
    When she got close, she slowed down. Dory’s older brother, Drew, was out front, mowing the lawn. He ran the mower back and forth across the grass, but Anna could see that it wasn’t doing much good. The bright red letters DORKY DORY were still clearly visible in the green grass. It would be days, or even weeks, before they faded.
    Anna rode past slowly, making sure to stay on the far side of the street so Drew wouldn’t noticeher. As she glanced up at the house, she thought she saw a curtain move, but no one appeared in the window.
    Was it Dory?
Anna wondered. She imagined Dory sulking behind the curtains, waiting for her to come up the front steps and apologize.
    Well, she can wait for the rest of her life, because it’s never going to happen!
Anna thought, pedaling away. As far as she was concerned, her friendship with Dory was over. For good.

Chapter Seven
    The rest of the weekend dragged by. Anna tried to call Emma several times, but she always got a message saying the number was disconnected. She figured Emma hadn’t paid for her minutes again. With nothing else to do, Anna spent the weekend moping around the house and plotting what she’d say to Dory when she saw her at school on Monday.
    But on Monday Anna didn’t see Dory at her locker, and in science class, Dory’s seat was empty.
    “Did you hear about Dory? Or, I should say, ‘Dorky Dory,’ “ Anna overheard someone say at the next table. It was Krystal, the biggest gossip in the seventh grade, gabbing to her lab partners as usual.
    If Krystal was talking about Dory, Anna knew that meant everyone in school had heard aboutwhat had happened — or soon would. For as long as she was at Wilson, no one would ever say Dory’s name again without adding “Dorky” to it.
    Well, she deserves it,
Anna fumed as she stared at Dory’s empty seat.
Serves her right for trying to get me in trouble, the little backstabber.
    “Hey, hello out there.” Benny waved his hand in front of her face. “Earth to Anna.”
    “Huh?” Anna blinked at him.
    “Phew!” Benny feigned relief. “For a second there, I thought you’d donated your brain to science.”
    Anna giggled. Benny’s jokes were kind of dumb, but they always made her laugh.
    “So,” he said, “are you going to help me on this experiment or what?”
    Thoughts of Dory slipped from Anna’s mind as she and Benny turned to their assignment.
    To Anna’s relief, they’d moved on from frog anatomy and now they were studying cells. That day, they were supposed to classify different cell drawings on a worksheet. But Benny wasn’t being much help.
    “This looks like a pepperoni pizza cell,” he joked, pointing to one of the drawings. “And this is clearly a deep-dish sausage and onion cell.”
    Anna rolled her eyes. “Are you
hungry
by any chance?”
    “Starving,” said Benny. “I’d give anything for a slice right now.”
    “Well, try not to drool on the worksheet,” Anna joked. “Lunch is in twenty minutes.”
    Benny made a face. “Who wants gross cafeteria pizza? I’m jonesing for Moxie.”
    Anna gave him a blank look.
    “You don’t know
Moxie?”
Benny looked shocked. “It’s only, like, the best pizza on the
planet.
You do eat pizza, right?”
    “Obviously,” said Anna.
    “You haven’t
lived
unless you’ve had Moxie pizza,” Benny told her. “I’m going there after school