英文小说flipped(怦然心动)原文1之羊若含玉创作
All I've ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off — you know, just give me some space.
It all started the summer before second grade when our moving van pulled into her neighborhood. And since we're now about done with the eighth grade, that, my friend, makes more than half a decade of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.
She didn't just barge into my life. She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life.
Did we invite her to get into our moving van and start climbing all over boxes? No! But that's exactly what she did, taking over and showing off like only Juli Baker can.
My dad tried to stop her. “Hey!” he says as she's catapulting herself on board. “What are you doing? You're getting mud everywhere!” So true, too. Her shoes were, like, caked with the stuff.
She didn't hop out, though. Instead, she planted her rear end on the floor and started pushing a big box with her feet. “Don't you want some help?”She glanced my way. “It sure looks like you need it.”
I didn't like the implication. And even though my dad had been tossing me the same sort of look all week, I could tell — he didn't like this girl either. “Hey! Don't do that,” he warned her. “There are some really valuable things in that box.”
“Oh. Well, how about this one?” She scoots over to a box labeled LENOX and looks my way again. “We should push it together!”
“No, no, no!” my dad says, then pulls her up by the arm. “Why don't you run along home? Your mother's probably wondering where you are.”
This was the beginning of my soon-to-become-acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint. Of any kind. Does she zip on home like a kid should when they've been invited to leave? No. She says, “Oh, my mom knows where I am. She said it was fine.”
Then she points across the street and says, “We just live right over there.” My father looks to where she's pointing and mutters, “Oh boy.” Then he looks at me and winks as he says, “Bryce, isn't it time for you to go inside and help your mother?”
I knew right off that this was a ditch play. And I didn't think about it until later, but ditch wasn't a play I'd run with my dad before. Face it, pulling a ditch is not something discussed with dads. It's like, against parental law to tell your kid it's okay to ditch someone, no matter how annoying or muddy they might be.
But there he was, putting the play in motion, and man, he didn't have to wink twice. I smiled and said, “Sure thing!” then jumped off the lift gate and headed for my new front door.
I heard her coming after me but I couldn't believe it. Maybe it just sounded like she was chasing me; maybe she was really going the other way. But before I got up the nerve to look, she blasted right past me, grabbing my arm and yanking me along.
This was too much. I planted myself and was about to tell her to get lost when the weirdest thing happened. I was making this big windmill motion to break away from her, but somehow on the downswing my hand wound up tangling into hers. I couldn't believe it.
There I was, holding the mud monkey's hand! I tried to shake her off, but she just clamped on tight and yanked me along, saying, “C'mon!”
我只有一个愿望:让朱莉•贝克别来烦我.快点给我走开!——我只想让她离我远点.
这一切都起源于一年级暑假,从我家的卡车停在她家近邻开端.眼下,我们都快上完八年级了,也就是说,整整五年,我不克不及不忍受着社交上的便利,对她实行“战略性躲避”.
她可不只是闯入了我的生活,她是千方百计非要在我的生活里占领一席之地不成.岂非是我们邀请她爬进搬场的卡车里,在箱子上爬来爬去的吗?才没有!可她就是不速之客,似乎这是她的家,是她朱莉安娜•贝克的特权似的.
爸爸试图阻止她,“嘿!”她在车里跳来跳去的时候,爸爸喊道,“你在干什么?你把烂泥弄得到处都是!”没错,她的鞋上糊满了泥巴.
可她基本没想从车上下来.正相反,她一屁股坐在车厢里,开端用脚推起一个大箱子.“你岂非不需要辅佐吗?”她朝我这边瞥了一眼,“我认为你真的需要他人辅佐呢.”
我一点儿也不喜欢她的暗示.虽然我爸也整天用这种眼神看我,可我敢说,他也不喜欢这丫头.“嘿,别推了,”他提醒道,“箱子里有珍贵物品.”
“哦,好吧.那我搬这个吧?”她挪到另一个贴着“雷诺克斯”标记的箱子旁边,又看了我一眼,“我们可以一起推!”
“不,不,不必!”爸爸把她抱起来,“你是不是应该回家看看?你妈妈也许正在担心你跑到哪儿去了.”
这是我头一次见识到这姑娘到底有何等不识趣,毫无自知之明.作为一个孩子,当他人礼貌地请她分开的时候,岂非不是应该连忙乖乖地回家吗?她才不会.她说:“哦,妈妈知道我在哪儿,她说没紧要.”然后她指着街对面说,“我家就住在那儿.”
爸爸看着她所指的偏向,念叨着:“天哪.”然后他看着我,边眨眼边说,“布莱斯,你是不是该回家给妈妈辅佐了?”
我立时明确过来,这是个甩失落她的小把戏.可我从来没跟爸爸排演过这出戏.奉求,怎样甩失落盯梢可不是你平时能和爸妈讨论的话题.想想看,告知孩子可以甩失落他人,这可是违背了做怙恃的原则,不管这小我有多讨厌或是身上沾了若干泥巴.sort of英文
但是爸爸情急之下照样这么做了,并且,他真的不必一直冲我使眼吧!我笑了,答道:“没错!”然后跳出车门,冲向我们的新家.
我听见她跟了上来,但我不敢相信.也许只是听上去很像她追上来了,也许她只是走向另一个偏向.但是,在我鼓足勇气回头之前,她已经赶上来,猛地抓住我的胳膊.
这太过火了.我停下脚步,想告知她快,这时却产生了最最诡异的事情.我抡起胳膊想摆
脱她,可是手臂落下来的时候却变成了挽着她的姿势.我的确不敢相信,我竟然挽了这只“泥猴”的手!
我想甩开她,但她把我的手攥得紧紧的,拉着我说:“来吧!”
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