Mimi watched carefully at the relationship between Anna and Faithie. Anna seemed wanting to distance herself and Gracie away from Little Faithie (Faithie liked to be called that), but Gracie kept saying,"Let Faithie play, Anna. She's not hurting anyone." Anna looked at Gracie sternly and said,"Well Du don't have to deal with her everyday! Du have a really keen cousin to play with, but I have this little girl that acts like a parasite!" Mimi furrowed her eyebrows in anger and said,"Anna, remember what I told you? Play nice oder don't play at all!" Anna gave me the meanest little smirk and replied,"You know Du can get arrested dressed up as a little jezebel, right?" Faithie looked up at her and said,"Anna, that's only if you're at the strand oder at the pool! Mama sagte that if you're at home, the policemen won't care about what Du look like. My sissy has a small rock badeanzug and Mama don't care about it." Anna looked at her angrily and said,"You're Mama is clueless and the ignorance in your family doesn't fall far from the tree!" Faithie ran off somewhere crying, as Gracie ran towards her. Mimi looked at Anna and said,"What is you're problem? One Minute you're sweet and kind, and then the Weiter you're rude and bossy. I don't care what you're like at home, but here, Du play nice. If Du keep Schauspielen like that, Du go Home and I'll tell my aunt that you're Schauspielen up and she'll call you're mom right away!" Anna walked away. Mimi's head started to hurt. She had never felt this angry at another kid younger than her before. She had dealt with little brats before, but all of them seemed angelic compared to that little demon! Mimi walked into the house and walked down the hall towards the right. She walked to her aunt's Schreiben office and knocked on the door. She went in and said,"Aunt Lilian, I have a major headache right now." "Why? Too much sun?" "No not that. It's that little Anna girl. She's so mean. She sagte that she was going to call the cops on me for my swimsuit, called Faithie and her family ignorant, and stomped off." "Where's Gracie? Did she hurt her?" "No, in fact she's using Gracie as a shield to get away from Faithie. Anna drags Gracie everywhere, sticks to me and tries to ward off Faithie. Gracie's still out there, cheering up Faithie." "Don't worry. I'll get Du some Tylenol. Du just go outside and get Gracie. I'm going to fix lunch in a Minute and Du girls can go back out there when it's cooled down. Sound good to you?" "Fine! Just fine with me!" Mimi took some Tylenol and went outside to get Gracie. Gracie was still in silence Von herself. Mimi looked at her and asked,"You okay?" Gracie looked up at her and said,"Faithie disappeared. She vanished into thin air....like a ghost oder something." Mimi looked at her oddly and replied and assured her,"Maybe you've had too much sun today. C'mon, you're mom's making some lunch for us. Macaroni n'cheese! You're favorite!" Gracie looked like she had been traumatized. She dragged her feet a little, as Mimi grabbed her Von the hand and took her in.

Mimi and Lilian were enjoying their lunch, unlike Gracie who picked at hers. Lilian looked at her and asked,"Honey, are Du okay? Du look like something jumped out of the bushes and scared Du to death." "More like vanished into thin air," Gracie mumbled to herself. Lilian looked at her and said,"What did Du say?" "Um, I said, uh..uh..- " "That she just saw Faithie jump into the water and she didn't pop back up. She's fine, she's just that good at swimming. That kinda freaked Gracie out, but Faithie's fine,right?" Mimi sagte finishing up Gracie's sentence. "Right. It was cool, but freaky. Kinda freaked me out there." Lilian just kept eating and replied,"Well, I'm pretty sure that little girl's okay. I know how you're not the best swimmer and that the water scares Du a little. Maybe Faithie can teach you." "Mom, she's like six years old. A six Jahr old teaching an eight Jahr old how to swim? That's like social suicide!" Lilian and Mimi giggled as Mimi asked,"Did Du get that from Mean Girls?" "Yeah, I don't like that Regina girl much, but if I were her, I would just stick with Anna and avoid her." Lilian looked at her and said,"That's not a very nice thing to do. What if Faithie is alone all the time and needs a friend and a better influence than Anna?" "Look Mom, Faithie has an older sister. I have an older cousin. It's not like I'm brushing up against Anna all the time begging to her asking her if she can play with me. Faithie's six, so she maybe cute, but....annoying. She always seems needy and helpless. I wasn't like that when I was her age." Lilian chuckled and said,"Oh really? Du weren't annoying when Du were six? Gracie, I can recall Du begging our older Weiter door neighbor to play with Du all the time." "That's different. She actually played with me. She was an only child." "You are too! Look, no matter how annoying this little girl is, don't be mean to her. I didn't raise Du to be mean, okay? I don't know what Anna's mom teaches her, but you're MY kid and you're nice to others. Okay?" "Okay."

As it got darker, the girls went back outside. They went into the water as Gracie said,"Ahhh! It's too cold!" Mimi looked at her and said,"I know,but at least we aren't hot and sweaty. If only the water was like this during the day." The girls were soon adjusted to the water, as they laughed and played. They soon saw Anna and Faithie in the water too. They swam a little closer to them as Anna said,"I wanna play a game, Faithie. It's called "The Dunk n' Swim." Wanna play?" "I don't know Anna. Is it scary?" "No, in fact Du won't remember a thing." Anna put her hand on Faithie's head, dunking her under with force. Mimi was screaming,"No!!! Anna let go of her!!! Stop!!! But when Mimi went over there, they were both gone. They both went under water. Mimi went under, opening her eyes under the murky lake water, trying to find the girls. She popped back up and went over to Gracie. She grabbed Gracie and went inside of the house. They ran upstairs, soaking wet,trying to dry each other with strand towels. Mimi looked at her and said,"I'm sorry Du saw that Gracie. I don't know what happened. I can't comprehend oder piece it together. We may had too much water in our eyes. We won't tell Aunt Lilian. It looked a little hazy, right? Right?" "Yeah, hazy. Kinda blurry." "Yeah, blurry. We'll watch a movie. Not a scary one. After that, we'll go to bett and play with the girls tomorrow, okay?" "It's all behind us?" "Yeah. Let's dry off, shower, get into our pajamas, go downstairs, pop some popcorn and watch a funny movie. Sound good to you?" "Yeah. I was so scared and I still am!" "Shh, it's okay. It's okay. It was probably the water. Sometimes, cold, dirty, murky water makes people see funny oder scary things.I may have swallowed a little and it messed with my head." "I may have too. Let's shower, I'm freezing and scared!"

The girls watched a movie and relaxed. They actually started to forget what they saw that evening. If only Mimi had remembered her Great Gram's story and thought long and hard enough about it...