Cobwebs by Karen Romano Young

Author:Karen Romano Young [Young, Karen Romano]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Social Issues, Juvenile Fiction, Animals, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Family, Insects, Etc, Spiders
ISBN: 9780064410281
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

23

“Pretty good,” said Ned that evening. He was examining the sketch she’d left beside her hammock on the floor, her notebook open to the page. It was a sketch she’d drawn of Dion, from memory. Catch him, her mother had said. “Nancy, could you get ready to go out, please?”

“Listen, Dad. That guy who writes about the Angel of Brooklyn—”

“Who?” said Ned.

“I think he’s got lots of names. Nestor Paprika, Nick Pappas…”

“What about him?” Quietly, almost to himself, he said, “That’s all the same guy?”

“All the same. And Niko Papadopolis.”

“Who’s he?” Louder.

It made her tired and teary to think of telling him. She pointed her finger at the drawing of Dion. “His father.”

“What?” Quieter.

“He thinks you’re the Angel of Brooklyn.”

Ned laughed, a big explosion. “It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks.” He rolled his eyes, chuckling, broke eye contact, turned away, big hands in the air, fingers splayed. “Come on, Nancy,” he said breathlessly.

“Come on what?”

“Angels have wings,” he said.

“So?”

He threw her black sweater at her. “Let’s go.”

“Where?” She didn’t want to go anywhere. He was already at the door. He hadn’t denied what she’d said. Did he realize the boy in the picture was the one who’d spied on her from the garden, who’d been on the dome that night?

“Granny is expecting us for dinner.”

“I don’t want any dinner,” she said, all snarly. “I’m the complete opposite of hungry.”

“You’re coming, Nancy,” said Ned, sounding tired and angry himself. It was an unusual attitude. What was this all about? Why did it matter so much to Ned to go over there? What if they went and Granny told her another story—and she got another crazy inspiration? What would happen this time?

She jumped out of the hammock so suddenly he almost fell over in surprise. “How are we getting there?” she asked. She would find out what her family wanted, and get what she wanted, too.

Ned cocked his head at her and swung the door. “I thought we’d take the subway,” he said.

“Now? At rush hour?”

“Unless you have a better idea,” he said, challenging her.

“How about the roofs?”

“You want to go all the way to Mama’s on the roofs?”

“I never have before,” she said.

“You’re not going to now, either,” he said. He held the door for her, and they went down the stairs the normal way, to the street.

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