“Okay,” Allie said, capering about between the pavement and the dirt footpath beside the road. She said, “I won’t say nothing if you don’t tell mom and dad about my boyfriend. Deal?” Carrie and Brooke looked at Allie with their brows furrowed, as if to say: what the hell did you just say, kid? They huddled together and giggled. Brooke said, “Allie, come on. There’s no way you have a boyfriend. You’re in, like, the second grade.” “I’m in the third grade,” Allie said, holding three fingers up to the older girls. “And I do have a boyfriend.” “Oh, really? So, who are you dating, Little Allie?
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