Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Author:Lisa Lutz
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

As Henry pulled his car into the driveway of 1799 Clay Street, Rae woke up and said, “I think I’m going to barf.” She vomited once on the front lawn and then raced into the bathroom off the kitchen.

“Thank you,” I said to Henry as we stood in the foyer listening to the traveling sound of Rae’s guttural hacking in the bathroom.

The early morning activities had distracted me from the pain. With the distraction gone, the pain returned. I grabbed my side and said, “Don’t worry. She’ll be fine.”

“What’s wrong with you, Isabel?”

“I don’t know,” I said, annoyed. “All sorts of things.”

“No, I mean your side. What did you do to yourself?”

“Nothing.”

Henry then lifted up my shirt. I smacked his hand away. “Stop that.”

“Let me see.”

“Stop trying to look at my stomach.”

“Stop moving,” Henry said, and then he finally got a look at the black-and-blue mark on my left side.

“You’re supposed to ask before you lift up a girl’s shirt.”

“I think you need to go to the hospital.”

“No doctors!!!”

“Isabel, be reasonable.”

“I’m not coughing blood.”

“What?”

“I can breathe. My pulse rate isn’t elevated. At least I don’t think it is. We looked it all up on the internet. If my ribs are fractured or bruised, they’ll heal themselves.”

Henry leaned against the door and stared down at his feet, shaking his head. Then he took off his jacket and threw it over the couch.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m staying,” Henry said, annoyed.

“Why?”

“Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.”

“That’s nice, Henry. Excuse me while I attend to Vomit Girl.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.