Mamba Point by Kurtis Scaletta

Author:Kurtis Scaletta [Scaletta, Kurtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89626-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I was sick for three days. I was gross sick, too. Not the kind of sick where you cough a little and reach for the tissues. I ran into the bathroom a lot, but sometimes I couldn’t manage that and just upchucked on the floor. Once, I even filled the sheets with diarrhea, and another time I made it to the bathroom but couldn’t make it back. I spent an hour sleeping on the cold tiles in the dead of night.

Artie came before and after his other jobs to help my mom. He cleaned up everything, no matter how nasty it was. He even changed the sheets once with me in the bed, just by rolling me around. I was barely awake at the time but remembered it later.

“You can’t be drinking the Liberian tap water, oh,” he told me.

“I know,” I mumbled through the fog of sickness and sleepiness. I hadn’t, either, at least not that I remembered. Maybe I accidentally had and forgot? Or maybe I swallowed some water when I was brushing my teeth? No, I realized. It was those jerks at the pool, dunking me over and over. I probably swallowed a gallon of swimming pool. The water was chlorinated, but either not chlorinated enough to kill all the germs or the chlorine itself had made me sick. Either way, it was Law’s fault for not doing anything when his own friends were bullying me.

“Law,” I said, hoping they would understand that this was all his fault.

“He wants to talk to his big brother,” Artie shouted. I don’t remember if Law came, though. I slid back into fever dreams, a mishmash of West Africa and Ohio and made-up places occupied by giant amoeba-like monsters and cannibals who ate you from the inside out.

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