"An-nie?" Carrie called as she creaked her little sister's room door open, "You're decent, are you?"
Seated at her desk, Annie rolled her eyes upwards. Second Sis could not have been so traumatized by the morning's incident with her and Sabine. Her friend had already left and Annie was studying on her own. "Yes, Sis, I'm dressed."
"Oh, good." Second Sis slipped into the room with several shopping bags. "Check out the new scarf I got today. Matches my hair, yes?"
Annie glanced at the orange scarf with red trimming that Second Sis held out. Wrapped around her sister's neck, it would indeed add a little flame at the base of her sister's yellow hair. "That's nice, Sis. You went shopping today?"
"Yes." Second Sis took out a small oblong box. "I've also got that dumbbell you wanted."
Annie got out of her chair and accepted the box. "You didn't have to buy one, you could've given me one of your old ones."
Second Sis stuffed the orange scarf back into her shopping bag. "I think they're all too heavy for you."
"You think so? This one looks so small."
Second Sis pointed at the box in Annie's hands. "Try that and see."
Annie took the dumbbell out of the box with her right hand and pumped. One. Two. "Doesn't seem heavy."
Second Sis nodded as she watched. "Uh huh."
Three. Four. "See, it's so..." Annie suddenly found that her arm would not move. "Hey, it's suddenly so heavy." She put the dumbbell down and massaged her strained arm.
"Thought so. You're too weak for any of mine. Why'd you suddenly want one?"
"Because I'm weak."
"Or because you're tired of me pushing you around." Carrie patted her sister's head. Then she lifted a lock of black hair to examine. "Annie, when's the last time you've gone to the salon?"
"I don't know, why?"
"Your hair needs work." Carrie released Annie's hair. "Okay, we're going to get our hair done one day after school next week."
"Sis, I'm busy with studying," Annie protested.
"You're going, Annie," Second Sis decided, "I can't have my sister looking like a tumbleweed."
Annie looked at her rough hair in the mirror. She twirled a some of it around her finger. "Fine. We go get our hair done - and only that."
"Great!" Second Sis smiled. She glanced at the science textbook on the desk that Annie had been reading. "It's only the start of the semester. What's there to read?"
"Last semester's work," Annie replied.
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