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camping, without the bugs. That girl Krystee — why is your sister friends with her?”
    â€œI don’t know. Fatal attraction or something.” Sprig lies down to test the mattress. “You know what, Bliss, sometimes I love my sister, and sometimes I just hate her. Do you think that’s sick and terrible?”
    â€œSometimes I hate my little brother.”
    Sprig sits up. “No way! I thought everything was perfect in your family.”
    â€œI wish. My parents dote on Spence, he can’t do anything wrong, and whatever happens, it’s, like, always my fault.” She smooths out the sleeping bag. “Let’s talk about something else. Something silly. What’s your favorite color?”
    â€œBlue … of course — my middle name. And ten is my favorite number. I like to make lists of ten things — like my ten favorite foods or my ten best ideas. Or ten ways to make my sister disappear. I thought of a good one yesterday when I was baking the cookies. If I could mix Dakota into the dough and bake her —”
    â€œThen eat it?” Bliss can’t stop laughing. “Now that is sick. Do you really have ten things like that?”
    â€œI’m still working on it. Want to see?” Sprig roots around in her backpack, then pulls out her list and hands it to Bliss.
    â€œI just thought of one for you,” Bliss says after she reads the list. She grabs her knees and rocks excitedly. “Put your sister on a raft and float her out to the ocean!”
    â€œThat’s good. I’m going to write it down.”
    â€œHere’s another one I just made up. Send her around the world in a hot-air balloon! Do you like that one?”
    â€œI love it,” Sprig says, scribbling.
    â€œIt’s really not original,” Bliss says apologetically. “We all watched Around the World In Eighty Days last weekend.”
    â€œSprig,” Mom says, coming in. “How are you doing, honey?” Mom’s in her working clothes, a dark skirt and a gray pleated blouse. “Bliss, hello ,” she says, in that way Sprig loves. She bends over and kisses Sprig. “I see you two are all settled. The beds are okay?”
    â€œTotally! They’re supercomfy,” Bliss says enthusiastically, the way she says almost everything, the way she said, Put her on a raft and float her out to the ocean!
    For Bliss, Sprig realizes, her ten ways list is just another game, and in a way it is for Sprig too — but it’s also more. Every time she thinks of a new way, it’s like letting out a breath that she’s been holding.
    And now, with Bliss’s two great ideas, she has nine ways of making Dakota disappear. Too bad she didn’t think of them herself. “Do you think it’s sort of cheating to take your ideas?” she asks Bliss, after Mom leaves.
    â€œNo,” Bliss says. “Everyone has different ideas. That’s how inventions and discoveries happen. My mom says that being open to new ideas makes your life juicy.”
    â€œ Juicy, ” Sprig repeats. “Cute! That gives me another idea.” She smooths out the paper and writes, then shows it to Bliss.
    â€œEuuuw,” Bliss says. “Poor Dakota!”
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    Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear
Dakota steps onto an ice floe in the Antarctic... and drifts off.
Put her in prison for stealing my question.
A cucumber she is... and I crunch her...
If she were made of paper... oh, so many choices! Crumple! Rumple! Tear and toss!
Like smoke, she rises into the air, and, poooof.....
I blink her into a watery puddle.
Bake her like a cookie...
Float her out to the ocean on a raft.
Put her in a hot air balloon and send it around the world.
Juice her like an orange and drink her down.

S ATURDAY morning, Krystee’s mother comes for her right after they finish breakfast, so she can go to her flute lesson. Fifteen minutes later, Bliss’s father picks her up to take