Hero-Type by Barry Lyga

Author:Barry Lyga [Lyga, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

But that wasn't even the worst part, believe it or not. I sat perfectly still through the rest of the announcements, totally silent, as if I could will myself invisible. Maybe even better than invisible. Maybe I could make myself...inhistoric. Sit quietly enough and people wouldn't just stop seeing me, but they would also totally forget I ever existed. That would be great.

No such luck, of course. The hallways on the way to first period were a smash-up derby for me—I was thrown into walls and lockers so many times (all "by accident," naturally) that my shoulders and arms and sides were throbbing and battered by the time I got to class.

I kept my head down, but I could feel everyone looking at me.

That's how the day went. And that was bad enough. But the worst thing of all...

The absolute worst thing of all ...

Right before lunch.

Now, I'm not an idiot. I wasn't about to go to the cafeteria and suffer there. But on my way to the auditorium, I saw them.

Together.

Leah and John Riordon.

No, really. The two of them were standing in the hallway in this little nook created by a jutting wall from the office and the alcove for the elevator that only the kids in wheelchairs are allowed to use. They were just standing there, talking, only it was more than that, I could tell. She was leaning against the wall and he was leaning towards her, one palm against the same wall, leaning in, leaning.

God, it was so obvious!

She was smiling. He was smiling. He was still wearing his jacket, though he'd loosened the tie so that it hung around his neck like he'd just come home from a tough day of saving the world or something...

She laughed.

He laughed with her.

I made it into the auditorium and up the ladder in record time.

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