6 BEWARE

BEWARE Once they had agreed to cast a spell on Nancy, Bean stared long and hard at Ivy's robe. Those little pieces of paper had to go. "The first thing we have to do is make you look more like a witch" she said., Ivy looked down at her bathrobe. "Why?" Bean tried to explain without hurting Ivy's feelings. "If you want other people to believe you're a witch, you have to look more witchy." "But I don't care if other people believe me," said Ivy. Bean shook her head. What a weird kid. "It'll make your spells better, too. You've got to dress for success." Her mother said that all the time. It usually meant that Bean had to put on a clean shirt. "Besides,

当他们同意对南希施咒时，比恩久久地盯着艾薇的长袍。 那些小纸片必须去掉。 “我们要做的第一件事就是让你看起来更像一个女巫。”她说。艾薇低头看着自己的浴袍。 “为什么?”比恩试图在不伤害艾薇感情的情况下解释。 “如果你想让别人相信你是女巫，你就得看起来更像女巫。” “但我不在乎别人是否相信我，”艾薇说。 比恩摇了摇头。真是个奇怪的孩子。 “它也会使你的咒语更好。 你必须为成功而着装。” 她妈妈总是这么说。 这通常意味着比恩必须穿上一件干净的衬衫。 “除此之外,

it'll be fun. Do you have face paint?" Ivy nodded. "In my room. Upstairs." She pointed to a window. "Is your mom inside?" Bean asked. "I guess," said Ivy. "Is she going to tell my mom where I am?" Grown-ups stuck together that way. Bean's dad said it was because they were all in a club together, but Bean felt pretty sure he was making that up. Ivy tapped her wand against her hand. "Maybe we should sneak in, just to be sure." That was fine with Bean. She loved sneaking. She loved face paint, too. And she was really going to love watching Nancy kick her legs and wave her arms for the rest of her life. They went in the back door to the kitchen. Bean could hear Ivy's mom talking on the telephone somewhere in the house.

会很有趣的。你脸上有油漆吗？”艾薇点点头。 “在我的房间里。楼上。”她指着一扇窗户。 “你妈妈在里面吗？”豆问道。 “我想是的，”艾薇说。“她会告诉我妈妈我在哪里吗？”大人们就是这样团结在一起的。 比恩的爸爸说那是因为他们都在一个俱乐部里，但比恩很确定那是他编的。 艾薇用魔杖轻敲她的手。 “也许我们应该溜进去，以防万一。” 这对比恩来说很好。她喜欢偷偷摸摸。 她也喜欢脸上的彩绘。 她真的会喜欢看南希踢她的腿，挥舞她的手臂在她的余生。 他们从后门进入厨房。 比恩可以听到艾薇的妈妈在房子的某个地方打电话。

"This is going to be easy," whispered Ivy. "She's working." She yelled loudly, "Hi, Mom! Can I have a banana?" "Hang on a second," Bean heard Ivy's mom say. Then, to Ivy, she said, "Honey, I'm on the phone. Get your own banana." There was the sound of a door shutting. "Okay!" yelled Ivy. She smiled at Bean. "See?" Very tricky, thought Bean. Ivy was turning out to be a lot more interesting than she had expected.

“这很容易，”艾薇小声说。 “她的工作。”她大声喊道：“嗨，妈妈！我能吃一根香蕉吗？”“等一下，”比恩听到艾薇的妈妈说。 然后，她对艾薇说：“亲爱的，我在打电话。 你自己去拿香蕉吧。”有门关上的声音。 “好吧！”艾薇喊道。她对比恩微笑。 “看到了吗?”真狡猾，比恩想。 艾薇比她想象的要有趣得多。

They walked softly past Ivy's mom's door and up the stairs. They were very quiet. At the top of the stairs, there was a door with a sign that said "Beware" in red glitter glue letters. That was Ivy's room. When she went in, Bean stood still and looked all around. "This is way, way cool," she said. She had never seen a room like Ivy's. There were thick lines drawn on the floor, marking out five sections. Each section was like a different room. In one section, there was a small sofa on a rug and a bookcase stuffed with books. In another was a table covered with pens and paper and glitter glue and paint. Ivy's bed, with a canopy made of silver netting, was in another. A dresser and a folding screen painted with clouds were in the fourth section. The fifth section had nothing in it except dolls. Bean had never seen so many dolls in

他们轻轻地走过艾薇妈妈的房门，上了楼。 他们很安静。楼梯顶上有一扇门，门上有一块牌子，上面用红色闪光胶写着“小心”。 那是艾薇的房间。当她进去时，比恩站着不动，环顾四周。 “这太酷了，太酷了，”她说。 她从未见过像艾薇那样的房间。 地板上画了粗线，分成五个部分。 每个部分就像一个不同的房间。 在一个区域里，有一个小沙发放在地毯上，还有一个装满书的书柜。 另一个房间里有一张桌子，上面摆满了笔、纸、闪光胶和油漆。 艾薇的床在另一张床上，上面有一个银网做的天篷。 第四部分是梳妆台和画有云彩的屏风。 第五部分除了娃娃什么都没有。 比恩从来没见过这么多娃娃

her life. There were the regular plastic kind of dolls. There were the weird staring dolls with fancy costumes that were kept in glass cases at the toy store. There were stiff wooden dolls. There were china dolls: small ones, smaller ones, and tiny ones. There was one doll that was really a rock dressed in clothes. All the dolls were seated around a doll-size blanket. Even the mushy baby dolls that couldn't sit by themselves had been propped up with blocks. In the middle of the blanket lay a Barbie doll, wrapped

她的生活。有普通的塑料娃娃。 在玩具店的玻璃柜里，有一些穿着奇装异服的奇怪的玩偶。 有僵硬的木制娃娃。 有小的，小的，小的。 有一个娃娃实际上是一块穿着衣服的石头。 所有的娃娃都围着一条娃娃大小的毯子坐着。 即使是那些不能自己坐着的软软的婴儿玩偶也用积木支撑着。 毯子中间放着一个裹着的芭比娃娃

up in toilet paper. All the other dolls were watching her. "Neat," said Bean. "A mummy." "Yeah," said Ivy. "I'm going to build a pyramid to bury her in. As soon as I figure out how." "I know how," said Bean. "Nancy made one out of sugar cubes last year. I can't believe your parents let you draw lines on your floor." "It's only chalk," said Ivy. "It comes off. I change the lines when I change the rooms. For now, I'm thinking about getting rid of the dressing room and making it into a kitchen." "Is that one the dressing room?" asked Bean, pointing to the section with the

在厕纸里。所有其他的娃娃都在看着她。 “很好。”比恩说。“木乃伊”。 “是的，”艾薇说。“我要建一个金字塔来埋葬她。 等我弄清楚怎么做。” “我知道怎么做，”比恩说。“南希去年用方糖做了一个。 我真不敢相信你父母让你在地板上画线。” “这只是粉笔，”艾薇说。 “它脱落了。我换房间的时候也会换台词。 现在，我正在考虑把更衣室拆掉，把它改成厨房。” “那是更衣室吗？”比恩指着有