Darkness Creeping by Neal Shusterman

Author:Neal Shusterman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

On the drive to school in the morning, Melinda and I sit in the backseat. Melinda plays with Deep Space Barbie, who has blue hair and green skin. I just sit there like a zombie who didn’t get enough sleep. How I wish I could go back to bed!

Mom drives, listening to the news, hoping to hear a traffic report. Instead, we hear a story about the zoo.

Tragedy struck the Central Zoo yesterday,begins the reporter, when an angry gorilla apparently broke through its cage, grabbed a man, and ripped off—

CLICK!

Mom quickly turns off the radio, pretending she didn’t hear the reporter.

Melinda looks at me with a face that’s turning almost as green as Deep Space Barbie. “Ripped off what?” she asks.

“Probably ripped off his arms,” I tell her.

“Ryan!” my mother warns.

“Maybe his head, too. Gorillas are known to do that.”

“Mommy, what do you think the gorilla ripped off?” Melinda asks tentatively.

“I think it ripped off his wallet,” says Mom, “so it could treat Mrs.Gorilla to a fancy dinner.”

Melinda laughs.

“Maybe he got his legs, too,” I tell Melinda. “Apes are strong. Monkeys are, too. I’ll bet if they wanted to, all the gorillas and baboons and orangutans and chimps could break out of their cages and escape in a matter of minutes. Hey, Mom, how far is the zoo from our house?”

“Never mind that!” says Mom.

I snicker, and in a flash of inspiration, I grab Melinda’s Deep Space Barbie. “This is probably how it looked at the zoo yesterday.” I insert Barbie hair-first into my mouth and bite off her head.

“Mommmmyyyyyyy!” screams Melinda.

Mom glares at me in the rearview mirror. “Ryan, stop it!” she yells.

I spit it out and the little plastic head ricochets off the window and lands in Melinda’s lap. She puts the head back on, but she can’t stop crying. I, on the other hand, can’t stop laughing.

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