She was fine – that was obvious to anyone with a pair of ears – but I couldn’t figure out what they were all arguing about.
I trucked up the hill, and as I got closer and saw what the men were holding,
I figured out in a hurry what was making Juli refuse to come out of the tree.
Chain saws. Don’t get me wrong here, okay? The tree was an ugly mutant tangle of gnarly branches.
The girl arguing with those men was Juli – the world’s peskiest, bossiest, most know-it-all female.
But all of a sudden my stomach completely bailed on me.
Juli loved that tree. Stupid as it was, she loved that tree, and cutting it down would be like cutting out her heart.
Everyone tried to talk her down. Even me. But she said she wasn’t coming down, not ever, and then she tried to talk us up.
“Bryce, please! Come up here with me. They won’t cut it down if we’re all up here!”
For a second I considered it. But then the bus arrived and I talked myself out of it.
It wasn’t my tree, and even though she acted like it was, it wasn’t Juli’s, either.
We boarded the bus and left her behind, but school was pretty much a waste.
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