If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser

Author:Todd Strasser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

The next day I woke up with a headache. Didn’t feel like going to school. I was loafing around watching TV when LaRue came out of the bedroom, buckling his belt. “Get dressed,” he said.

I didn’t have to ask why. A little while later I was on the fifteenth floor for the first time since that day, two years before, when Marcus gave me his bail money. In the middle of a filthy room, Jules was kneeling with his hands bound behind him and his eyes blindfolded. His lower lip was swollen and split, and his nose was caked with blood. His left foot was wrapped in a bandage, so I knew he’d made it to the emergency room the night before.

Marcus and Terrell were there, along with Tyrone.

“Where’s the gun?” Marcus asked me.

“Threw it down a storm drain,” I said.

“What?” Terrell sputtered.

Marcus gave him a silencing look, then turned to me. “Smart. Cops can’t prove nothin’ without a weapon.” He gestured at Jules. “He cheat?”

I glanced at the blindfolded, cowering figure. “He’s new around here and made a mistake. We were all pretty wasted.”

“Say what?” Terrell gasped incredulously.

With the blindfold on, Jules couldn’t see me press my finger against my lips to hush Terrell.

“So you don’t think we should kill him?” Marcus asked with a wink.

Jules shuddered.

“Hell, no,” I said. “In fact, I think he’d make a pretty good Disciple.”

“Over my dead body,” Terrell snorted.

“Don’t say that,” LaRue muttered. “Unless you want it to come true.”

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