madison

polly got an email from daljit saying she'd found a drummer for their band, madison, which for polly is the worst drummer they could ever get.

madison is a year older but still in polly's class & a big bully. she's always getting in trouble for wearing black eyeliner or black nail polish or drawing tattoos on her arms or dying her hair blue. the only time she ever talked to polly was in the cafeteria when polly was eating a salad plain because they only had ranch dressing & madison laughed & said she was eating rabbit food. after that polly stayed far away from her.

polly thinks madison is mean & she's not even a vegetarian, which is what she emailed to daljit. but daljit emailed back & said madison is sorry she said polly ate rabbit food & wants to be her friend. daljit also said madison acts up because her father is in jail for insider training & that would make anyone a little grumpy. madison can play the drums and she has her own drum kit now that her brother's in college & the only meat she likes is chicken nuggets so she can be easily converted to vegie.

maybe, polly thought.

mama is always telling polly to give people a chance, so that's just what she'll have to do.