Curveball : The Year I Lost My Grip (9780545393119) by Sonnenblick Jordan

Author:Sonnenblick, Jordan [Sonnenblick, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2012-10-19T21:00:00+00:00

So we switched places. I was a pretty good pig eviscerator, too. I cut out the heart with no problems. The lungs followed. The liver? Check. The stomach. The intestines. The undeveloped reproductive system. Check, check, check. But then Mrs. Singley stopped everybody.

“Excuse me, class, but I seem to have left a page out of the packet. The last thing you need to do is dissect one forelimb of your pig and draw a detailed diagram of the elbow joint….”

Suddenly, I felt light-headed. I staggered a couple of steps sideways, and somehow managed to stop gagging long enough to ask Matt to take over for me. He stepped in, grabbed up the tools, and started cutting. Which I might have been OK with, but of course the operation came with narration:

“Hey, hi! Wave to our friends, piggie! Good job, piggie!”

“Uh, Matt,” I said, trying not to retch, “do you think we could just, like, get the work done? There’s not much time left in the period, and —”

“Don’t worry, Pete. I can bond with our piglet and work at the same time. Hey, Pigster, I like the way your joint articulates when you wave! Look how nicely your ulna and radius pivot together! Pete, check this out! If I pull his arm back, it’s almost like he’s getting ready to throw a ball or something. Just … gotta … get it back a little … farther —” I heard a sickening wet snap. “Oopsie! Guess Porky here is out for the season!”

I felt a lurch in my gut, and instantly, my mouth was full of half-digested pig parts.

I almost made it to the door.

By the time the mess was cleaned up, I was in the nurse’s office. I kind of felt better — at least physically — after my massive projectile hurling spasm, but I played it up like I was dying so I wouldn’t have to go back to class and see people. So the nurse called my mom, but my mom couldn’t come to get me. Naturally, my dad was away on business, which left only one relative in town: Grampa. The nurse called him, and he said he would keep me at his house until my parents got home from work.

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