Out to Get You by Josh Allen

Author:Josh Allen [Allen, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2019-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

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At dinner, Owen chewed his burrito slowly.

“You’re quiet,” his mother said.

“I’m thinking,” he answered. He considered telling her about the sign, asking her which kid was supposed to be in front on a school-crossing sign, the boy or the girl, but he didn’t want to bring it up again in front of Hannah. She’d tell him he was acting crazy, and she might even tell their parents that she’d beaten him—yet again—that morning. So he decided to stay silent.

Maybe Hannah was right after all, and the sign had been replaced—not with a new sign, but with an old sign, a recycled one. But would the city have done that?

Or maybe something was happening. Something strange. Maybe that boy, now in front, was a kind of…prediction…or a premonition. Yes, that was the word. A premonition of things to come.

Of him, finally winning.

He shook his head and gulped down his milk.

No, he told himself. That’s crazy. More likely, he’d just been wrong about the sign for years. Probably the boy had always been walking in front, and he’d been seeing it wrong all this time. That was all.

Owen closed his eyes. He tried picturing the sign, going back to his memories to get a clear view of it. But everything felt fuzzy. Confused.

Which kid was supposed to be in front in a school crossing sign? The boy? The girl?

Thinking about it, Owen could see it both ways.

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