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Hi my name is Messy my speech about a girl named Miata who forgets her skirt on the bus. From the book, The Skirt, by Gary Soto, this is my speech.

After stepping off the bus, Miata turned around and gasped, "Ay!" The school bus lurched, coughed a puff of stinky exhaust, and made a wide turn at the corner.

The driver strained as he worked the steering wheel like the horns of a bull. Miata yelled for the driver to stop. She started running after the bus. Her hair whipped against her shoulders. A large book bag tugged at her She and her best friend, Ana, both were both fourth graders, had been bothered by boys. The two girls moved from seat to seat. The boys followed and taunted them with a rubber frog.

Giggling, the girls moved away from Larry and Shaun. They especially moved far away from James, a boy with green eyes and hair so shiny black that it was nearly blue. He was trying to write his name on their arms and asked them to play basketball with him after school. "Come on!", he had argued. "It's Friday. There is no school tomorrow."

But Miata and Ana had ignored him as they moved from seat to seat. They looked out the window and nibbled secretly on animal crackers when the boys weren't bothering them.

"Please stop!" Miata yelled as she ran after the bus. Her legs kicked high and her lungs burned from exhaustion. She needed her skirt.

On Sunday after church she was going to dance. Her troupe had practiced for three mouths. If she was the only girl without a costume, her parents would wear sun-glasses out of embarrassment. Miata didn't want that.

The skirt belong to her mother when she was young. What is mother going to think? Miata asked herself. Her mother was always scolding Miata for losing things. She lose combs,sweaters,books,lunchmoney,and homework. One time she even lost her shoe at school.

She had left them on the baseball field where she had raced against two boys. When she retuned to get them, the shoes were gone.

Worse,she has taken her skirt to school to show off. She wanted her friends to see it. The skirt was old,but a rainbow of shiny ribbons still made it pretty. She puton during lunchtime and dsnced for her friends. Even a teacher stopped to watch.

What am I going to do now? Miata asked herself. She slowed to walk. Her hair had come undone . She fellt hot and sticky.

She could hear the bus stopping around the corner. Miata thought of running through a neighbor`s yard,but that would only get her in trouble.