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says that.
    Somehow, I don’t think that they are going to be asking for his help.
    After Dad has gone, I look at Max and Mom, who are looking at each other. They look angry. I know that they are not saying anything in front of me.
    Max carries the bags up to my room, and I get dressed for the restaurant.
    Max and Mom talk downstairs.
    When we get to the restaurant, I sit down to hear their news.
    It can’t be that they are getting married.
    I already know that.
    Mom looks at me very seriously. “Amber, Max and I have already talked about this at great length. I realize that you may havesome feelings about this….. but we want to let you know that we are not going to stay in THAT house. We are going to move.”
    Move. We can’t move. We just can’t move. I’ve lived in THAT house for my whole entire life.
    My mom continues, “We want to be in a house where we can have people come to OUR house, Max’s and my house…and your house. Where Max and I and you can create our own history.”
    I feel like I’ve been hit by a ton of wet noodles, mixed in cement sauce.
    “When? Where?” I want to know.
    “When? Soon,” Mom says. “Where? We don’t know.”
    “In the same town?” My voice is getting a little louder.
    Mom shrugs. “We don’t know yet.”
    I don’t want to move to another house, to another town.
    I want to stay right where I am.
    I don’t know what to do, what to feel, what to say.
    For once in my life, I, Amber Brown, am speechless.

Chapter
Six

    January 11.
    I’m back in school.
    Life as I know it is over.
    Mom and Max weren’t kidding.
    We are really going to move. They are already looking at houses. When they find a house or houses they like, they will show them to me, and I can help them decide. I like that they want me to help them decide. I, Amber Brown, got very mad at my dad when he picked a house without me. Now Mom and Max are letting medecide…except for one thing. I have decided…I want to stay exactly where I am. I like my room. I like knowing exactly where everything is. I like my friends. I like knowing my neighborhood.
    Mom and Max said that once we find the house and buy it, they are going to get married. They aren’t going to wait until June. We will all move into the house at the same time.
    They won’t promise me that we will stay in the same town.
    That means that I may not even stay in the same school.
    I, Amber Brown, always feel bad for kids who have to move and go to a new school, especially in the middle of the year.
    I remember how bad I felt for Justin, my best friend who had to move.
    Mrs. Holt is in the front of the classroom, taking attendance.
    I really like Mrs. Holt.
    I like all of the teachers at my school…I’ve had some great teachers here….. Mrs. Holt…. Mr. Cohen…. Ms. Light….
    What if there are no great teachers at my new school?
    What if they never smile at me? What if they already have favorite students, and there is no more room in their brains to add another favorite? What if they have already memorized all of their students’ names, and they have no more room in their memory for mine? What if they think of me as “What’s-her-face, that new kid who came to the school in the middle of fourth grade?”…. What if everyone thinks that it is weird for me to say, “I, Amber Brown”?
    There are so many more what-ifs.
    What if my dad keeps getting madder and madder about this?
    When I was at Dad’s house, I should never have told him that Mom and I and Max weregoing to move. He got on the phone to Mom and yelled and yelled and yelled. He said that he had moved back to this town, not to New York City, because of me, so that we could spend time together….. and how dare they think that they could move. He used the words “I’m calling my lawyer.” He used them a lot.
    I’m not sure, but I don’t think he should have acted the way that he did when he dropped me off at the house after Christmas vacation….. talking about how he knew