Carry the Sky by Kate Gray

Author:Kate Gray [Gray, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
Published: 2014-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Evenings in study hall, forces acting upon inertia are revealed. Most students believe that inertia is the resistance to change. Wrong. Or it’s doing nothing. Wrong again. It’s the resistance an object has to a change in its state of motion. Inertia is potential, and it relies on tension.

So, if Donny Zurkus, King of the All-Nighter, keeps his head on his open textbook, drools on the page, and keeps sleeping, that’s not inertia. That’s study hall.

So, if all goes well, I can blast through ten lab books in the hour. Since Kyle’s here, who knows. Study hall’s for the kings and queens of wayward acts or mediocre minds. Every time Kyle’s here, he asks me to fold bugs and buildings and gifts. He asks about inertia, skin drag, and vectors. He’s here a lot.

Ever since we folded cranes, he’s folded simpler things and pretended not to be folding. Not usually the Sneaky King. Strolling through the desks, I read late homework for Algebra and Geography, French and Social Science. When Mediocre Minds try to hide their procrastinating habits, they slide homework over the top, bring pencils to their mouths, and say, “Hmmmm.”

“As if,” Carla would say.

On one of my tours of the procrastinators, when I saw an origami box with “You’re the best rower. Donny Zurkus” on Kyle’s desk, he didn’t pull a paper across it. Not subtle. So obvious he goes invisible.

The second one was a bat, the mammalian kind. Kindergarten kids can make bats. Inside the wings, it read, “You’re number one” on one wing, and “in my cave” on the other. And “Donny Zurkus” was down the belly, all caps. Kyle was playing a dangerous game.

The third one was a bluebird. On a scale of one, easy, and ten, tough-to-make, it’s a two. Nice folds, though. No do-overs. Striking blue paper. Inside it said, “Meet me before dinner in the cornfield. Donny.” Since dinner happens before study hall, this note was to be given the following day. The boy was planning. He was so engrossed in his planning, he didn’t see me pass behind him.

Here inertia was motion, the tendency to stay in motion. Kyle was Newton’s First Law by setting something in motion at a certain velocity. Newton was amazing. If there were no drag or other force acting, what Kyle starts would continue forever. Surely Zurkus will stop whatever it is.

In any way I can, I will resist resistance to this object in motion. Kyle will complete what he has set in motion. He will beat Bad-Boy Zurkus on his own. Completion of his plan by his own hand will teach him more than anything I can help him achieve.

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