Nancy Kress - The Most Famous Little Girl in the World

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The Most Famous Little Girl in the World

by Nancy Kress

The most famous little girl in the world stuck out her tongue at me. "These are all my Barbie dolls and you

can't use them!"

I ran to Mommy. "Kyra won't share!"

"Kyra, dear," Aunt Julie said in that funny tight voice she had ever since IT happened, "share your new

dolls with Amy."

"No, they're mine!" Kyra said. "The news people gave them all to me!" She tried to hold all the Barbie

dolls, nine or ten, in her arms all at once, and then she started to cry.

She does that a lot now.

"Julie," Mommy said, real quiet, "she doesn't have to share."

"Yes, she does. Just because she's now some sort of … oh, God, I wish none of this had happened!"

Then Aunt Julie was crying, too.

Grown ups aren't supposed to cry. I looked at Aunt Julie, and then at stupid Kyra, still bawling, and then

at Aunt Julie again. Nothing was right.

Mommy took me by the hand, led me into the kitchen, and sat me on her lap. The kitchen was all warm

and there were chocolate-chip cookies baking, so that was good. "Amy," Mommy said, "I want to talk

to you."

"I'm too big to sit on your lap," I said.

"No, you're not," Mommy said, and held me closer, and I felt better. "But you are big enough to

understand what happened to Kyra."

"Kyra says she doesn't understand it!"

"Well, in one sense that's true," Mommy said. "But you understand some of it, anyway. You know that

Kyra and you were in the cow field, and a big spaceship came down."

"Can I have a cookie?"

"They're not done yet. Sit still and listen, Amy."

I said, "I know all this! The ship came down, and the door opened, and Kyra went in and I was far away

and I didn't." And then I called Mommy on the cell phone and she called 911 and people came running.

Not Aunt Julie—Mommy was baby-sitting Kyra at Kyra's house. But police cars and firemen and

ambulances. The cars drove right into the cow field, right through cow poop. If the cows hadn't been all

bunched together way over by the fence, I bet the cars would have driven through the cows, too. That

would have been kind of cool.

Kyra was in there a long time. The police shouted at the little spaceship, but it didn't open up or anything.

I was watching from an upstairs window, where Mommy made me go, through Uncle John's binoculars.

A helicopter came but before it could do anything, the spaceship door opened and Kyra walked out and

policemen rushed forward and grabbed her. And then the spaceship just rose up and went away, passing

the helicopter, and ever since everybody thinks Kyra is the coolest thing in the world. Well, I don't.

"I hate her, Mommy."

"No, you don't. But Kyra is getting all the attention and—" She sighed and held me tighter. It was nice,

even though I'm too big to be held tight like that.

"Is Kyra going to go on TV?"

"No. Aunt Julie and I agreed to keep both of you off TV and magazines and whatever."

"Kyra's been on lots of magazines."

"Not by choice."

"Mommy," I said, because it was safe sitting there on her lap and the cookies smelled good, "what did

Kyra do in the spaceship?"

Her chest got stiff. "We don't know. Kyra can't remember. Unless … unless she told you something,

Amy?"

"She says she can't remember."

I twisted to look at Mommy's face. "So how come they still send presents? It was last year!"

"I know." Mommy put me on the floor and opened the oven to poke at the cookies. They smelled

wonderful.

"And," I demanded, "how come Uncle John doesn't come home anymore?"

Mommy bit her lip. "Would you like a cookie, Amy?"

"Yes. How come?"

"Sometimes people just—"

"Are Aunt Julie and Uncle John getting a divorce? Because of Kyra?"

"No. Kyra is not responsible here, and you just remember that, young lady! I don't want you making her

feel more confused than she is!"

I ate my cookie. Kyra wasn't confused. She was a cry-baby and a Barbie hog and I hated her. I didn't

want her to be my cousin anymore.

What was so great about going into some stupid spaceship, anyway? Nothing. She couldn't even

remember anything about it!

Mommy put her hands over her face.

· · · · ·

2008

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