Or that she had lost something. She sat up and looked around her room. She didn’t see any schoolbooks, but that was okay because she hadn’t been given any vacation homework. She saw her tap shoes, which was good because they were very expensive and Min had told her that if she lost them again, Ruby would have to replace them herself. What could be wrong? The answer came to her in the next instant and left a sinking feeling in her stomach. She had forgotten to rehearse her solos (the little one and the important one) for the Thanksgiving concert. She had missed the final rehearsal and she had forgotten to rehearse on her own. “Oh, well,” said Ruby aloud, hopping out of bed. She pulled her sheet music out from under a pile of papers on her desk, unwrapped a piece of bubble gum, popped it in her mouth, and scanned the music. “I know this,” she said. She snapped her gum and dropped the music back on the desk.
