Dull Boy by Sarah Cross

Author:Sarah Cross [Cross, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Social Issues, Action & Adventure, Comics & Graphic Novels, Individuality, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Science Fiction, Supernatural, General, Friendship, Juvenile Fiction, Superheroes
ISBN: 9780525421337
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-05-19T07:00:00+00:00

you’re inside this big cylinder, and everyone braces themselves against the wall and the thing starts spinning faster and faster until centrifugal force sticks you to the wall, and then the floor drops and you’re still stuck?

That’s what Sophie looks like: just chilling, in no danger of falling. She slides her feet up one at a time until her knees are bent and her feet are flat against the wall.

“Welcome to the most useless power ever,” she says, and laughs. “I’m sticky. Well, when I want to be. And sometimes when I don’t—it’s not perfect.”

“Bad ass, ” I say. “You should be a bull rider. You’d totally kill.”

Sophie starts laughing so hard she unsticks partway and starts to fall off the wall, then gets hold of herself and shoves off, lands in a crouch. “I’d have to ride in booty shorts. My parents would love that.”

She climbs back into her clothes, dusts off the paint flecks that are still attached to her skin. Flops down on the couch and takes a big swig of water, letting the mouth of the bottle stick to her lower lip before she pops it off again and grins at me.

“Avery’s turn,” Darla announces.

Great.

All eyes are on me and I have no idea what to show them. Flying would be the most impressive thing I could do, but I’m almost positive they don’t know about my flight yet, and I’m not sure I want to reveal that on the fi rst day. I mean, there are secrets, and then there are secrets.

Besides, flying indoors is too creepy, like opening an um121

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