1艾瑪的新水壺
晚飯後，爸爸媽媽領著米亞和艾瑪去家附近的百貨超市轉轉。晚飯後的百貨超市沒什麼人，於是媽媽便允許米亞和艾瑪可以自己在超市裡逛。
「我想去看看這裡有沒有好看的手帕，老師說幼兒園的每個小朋友都得帶自己的手帕。」米亞對艾瑪說。
「我也要去！」艾瑪蹦蹦跳跳的跟在姐姐身後，兩人一前一後穿過裝拖鞋的大籃筐，展示沙發椅子的區域，最後終於到了擺放家居用品的地方。
「我喜歡這個粉色帶有大蝴蝶結，但是這個紫色貓咪的也很好看，我都不知道該選哪個了。」米亞手裡拿著兩條手帕，糾結著不知道該選哪一條。
就在這時米亞發現本來跟在自己身後的妹妹不見了，於是放下印有小貓咪圖案的手帕開始找起了艾瑪。
噠噠噠，噠噠噠……腳步聲從米亞後面傳來，艾瑪出現在身後，手裡抱著一個比她的頭還要大上不少的水壺。
「我要這個水壺！」艾瑪大聲宣布。
「妳需要先問問媽媽同不同意才行。」米亞向妹妹潑了一桶冷水。艾瑪的大眼睛往左轉了兩圈，又往右轉了兩圈，便扭頭走了。
「喂！等等我！」米亞緊跟在艾瑪身後。米亞跟著妹妹在賣場裡繞啊繞，直到艾瑪突然向前跑去……原來她一直在找媽媽。
「我要這個水壺，非常需要！」艾瑪將水壺抱得更緊。
「家裡已經有很多水壺了，而且這個水壺對妳來說太大太重了，快把水壺放回去，我們準備要回家了。」
「我就要這個水壺！」
眼淚啪嗒啪嗒從艾瑪眼裡流出來。
「就要！」
每當艾瑪想要什麼東西的時候，她總是態度堅定，不容置疑，不達目的絕不罷休的。
艾瑪的哭鬧聲很快引來了爸爸，爸爸的出現讓艾瑪更激動了。她邊哭邊跺腳，不管爸爸媽媽怎麼說都沒有用，艾瑪的眼淚像瀑布一樣不停的從眼睛裡往外流，後來鼻涕口水也止不住的流出來。。
無奈之下最終爸爸媽媽還是給艾瑪買了那個大水壺，當然還有米亞的蝴蝶結手帕。回家的路上艾瑪心滿意足的抱著她的新水壺走了一路。
第二天從幼兒園放學回家後，只看見艾瑪怒氣沖沖的把外套書包掛好後，自己搬了一把椅子，踩著它夠到了廚房裡的櫥櫃，把新水壺擺到了櫃子的最深處，砰的一聲又把櫃門關上了。
「妳怎麼把水壺收起來了呀？」米亞好奇的問道。
艾瑪噘起嘴來，一聲不吭要進了自己的房間後，向門外吼了一聲：「我再也不要那個水壺了！不要了！」
米亞帶著疑惑去找媽媽，只看見媽媽又把新水壺從櫃子裡拿了出來。
「艾瑪說她再也不要帶這個水壺去上學了，為什麼呀？」米亞問媽媽。
「老師說今天在班上大家喝水的時候，艾瑪的水壺實在太大太重了，在她舉起水壺喝水時，水壺砸在了她的臉上，水灑出來把她最喜歡的小狗上衣弄濕了。」
說到這裡，媽媽忍不住笑了出來，「看來這個水壺只能等艾瑪再大一點才能用了。」
原來是這樣！米亞終於明白了。想著去艾瑪房間找她玩過家家，米亞推開了艾瑪房間的門，只看見艾瑪嘴裡叼著奶瓶，縮成一團躺在床上睡著了。
看來這一天這支水壺給艾瑪添了不少麻煩。
1 I absolutely, very much need it!
Mum and dad and Emma and I are going for a walk after dinner.
We went to our local supermarket, mum said I can walk around by myself if I take Emma with me.
“I’m going to look for handkerchiefs, I need them for kindergarten.” I tell Emma.
She stares at me blankly, so I stare back at her too.
“Well go on then, I haven’t got ALL DAY.” Emma says.
So, I went about around the store while Emma followed quietly behind me.
I spot a big bin where all the handkerchiefs are stored.
“I can’t decide if I want this one with a kitty or this other one with a bow” I say to myself.
I was still choosing between the two handkerchiefs when Emma miraculously disappeared!
I walk around the store looking for Emma.
“There you are!” I say, after spotting Emma standing alone in the middle of another aisle.
“I’m getting this.” Emma says to me. wrapped tightly in her arms is a water bottle larger than her head.
I say to her “You have to ask mum first.”
She rolled her eyes a few times to the right, then a few times to the left, and starts to walk around again.
“Wait for me!” I chase behind her.
She finally stops walking after a few laps around the store.
It looks like she has been looking for mum all this time.
“I’m getting this water bottle.” she tells mum. But mum says no.
Tears begin to fill up Emma’s eyes and she hugs the bottle even tighter. When mum says to her no once more, she thumps down on the ground and kick and cry and roll and scream. But mum still says no to the water bottle.
So, Emma stands up again and jump and jump and jump until she become so tired, she falls to the floor again. Although her crying never stopped.
Mum finally gives up and got her that big water bottle, and my handkerchief with a bow on it, of course.
Emma came home from school rather grumpy the next day.
She went straight into the kitchen, pulled a stool, stood tip toe on the stool, and pushed her big water bottle all the way to the very back of the cupboard. she pouted her lips as she walks past me and into her room.
“I wonder what’s wrong with her.” I ask mum curiously.
mum laughed, and that made me even more curious.
“Emma’s teacher said her big water bottle was way too heavy, and it fell on her face when she tried drinking from it!”
I can’t help but giggle a little too.
I went into her room only to find her snuggled up in her bed drinking orange juice out of her old baby bottle.
“I’m never, ever, not ever bringing that water to kindergarten ever again!” Emma said.
Oh Emma.
以上內容節錄自《米亞與艾瑪 Mia and Emma》陳聖蕾 Mia Chen◎著．白象文化出版
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