Parts & Labor by Mark Gimenez

Author:Mark Gimenez [Author's Name]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: school, aliens, bullies
Publisher: Navarchus Press
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

We cut over at the Baptist Church playground and ate all the way past Mrs. Cushing bent over and tending to her flowers—"She has a very nice garden," Norbert said—and down the hill. I was stuffed by the time we got back home. But I almost threw it all up when we cleared the hedgerow and I looked up at my bedroom window.

Maddy was sitting on the window sill.

"Oh, no!"

I had forgotten to close and lock my window. I was supposed to always do that because there was no screen on the window—and because Maddy might do just what she was now doing. Her legs were dangling out the window. If she fell, she would drop twenty feet to the driveway.

"Maddy!"

I shouldn't have called her name. She saw me, and she smiled at me, and she let go of the window, and she waved … and she wobbled … and she screamed with fright … and she …

… fell.

I ran as fast as I could to catch her … but I wasn't fast enough … I wasn't going to make it …

"Maddy!"

… but then … the world suddenly shifted into slow motion again … and Maddy was no longer falling … she was floating … but I didn't slow down … I ran to her and got right under her and held my arms out … and she just gently dropped down into my open arms. Then, just as suddenly, the world returned to normal speed again.

"That was fun!" she screamed. "I'm gonna do that again!"

"No, Maddy! Don't ever do that again!"

She giggled and jumped down and ran inside. I stood there a moment, not sure what to think, then I turned to Norbert. He was still standing where I had left him, licking his ice cream cone.

"I gotta go lock my window," I said, "before she jumps again."

I ran upstairs to my room. I shut and locked the window then looked down at Norbert swinging in his backyard.

How'd I do that?

How'd I do any of the things I had done the last few days?

How'd I send Vic and his gang flying down the sidewalk?

How'd I bend their scooters into pretzels?

How'd I hit that home run?

How'd I catch Maddy?

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