Lisa and Sandy

The New Boy just sat on the steps and the other kids stayed away from him until the twins, Lisa and Sandy, found out he had special powers. Even though he didn't say a word to the other kids and the kids didn't say a word to him, he must have paid attention to what was going on around him. That afternoon when the twins walked by, he greeted them, "Good morning, Lisa and Sandy.

"And which one am I?" Sandy asked him, with a laugh.

Nobody could tell the twins apart, not even Mary. Mary and Georgie and Joanna and Freddie were always asking them, "Which one are you?"

The New Boy answered right away, "Sandy, of course."

"That's just a lucky guess."

"No. Do you think I'm a fool? I know who's who."

"How could you know? We look so much alike, we confuse everybody."

"Well, I can't see you, so what you look like doesn't confuse me. I have no trouble at all telling you apart."

"And how did you know it was me?" asked Sandy.

"Because you skip as you walk, and you always slow down when you pass by the rose bush, and you smell like fresh-cut grass."

"And what about me?" asked Lisa.

"You run ahead three steps, then wait for the others to catch up, then run ahead again. You scrape the ground with your heel when you stand still. And when you talk, you spit your words out one after the other, then pause before finishing your thought."

The twins were delighted that he knew them both so well and that he liked them each for different reasons and in different ways, not just together as twins. He made them each feel very special.

Soon the three of them were playing games together. Sandy liked to play blind man's bluff, and Lisa liked hide-and-seek. The New Boy was great at both games. No trick of sight could fool him. No matter how well Sandy and Lisa hid, he could always find them.

Mary asked the twins, "What's his name?"

"Roger," answered Lisa.

"But we call him 'New Boy,'" added Sandy.

"He doesn't see things the way everybody else does," said Lisa proudly.

"He makes everything seem new," explained Sandy.

"Well, I don't see what's so special about him," said Mary. "He's blind. There's nothing special about that, not special-good."

"He's a lot of fun to play with," said Sandy.

"Well, I'll play with him, too," said Mary. "But not because he's special; just because I feel sorry for him, that's all."

As soon as Mary started playing with him, Georgie and Joanna and Freddie did, too.

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