Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez

Author:Carlos Hernandez
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

REMEMBER WHEN I WAS being all smug about spending so much time on the climbing wall in Health and Wellness? Yeah, now that I found myself folded up tighter than a Navy SEAL’s parachute in Yasmany’s claustrophobic locker, I wasn’t feeling nearly as smart. See, I could have been taking yoga for weeks now. Weeks! There was a pace group in Health and Wellness that had been sun-salutationing and downward-dogging since day one of school. By now, I could’ve been contorting my body like Dhalsim.

But oh, no, I had to spend every free period trying to get to the top of the red zone on the wall. Fat lot of good all that climbing was doing me now. If anything, it had worsened things, because I now had these beefy, bulging calf muscles that made fitting into Yasmany’s locker even harder. This must be what it feels like to be buried alive, I thought. I even had my arms crossed in front of me like Tutan-freaking-khamun. Except, unlike King Tut, I couldn’t stretch my legs luxuriously inside my huge sarcophagus. My knees were touching my chin. I was a Sal ball.

The lapse in judgment that had led to this current predicament had taken place back on the space station. I thought I’d make the split in the fabric of the cosmos, the one that would lead me back to Yasmany’s locker, right beneath me and come in through the top. That way our new tear in the universe wouldn’t touch the one already in the back of the locker: the original hole that led to the universe from which I had purloined a little poultry. (Had no idea what flavor of catastrophe would occur if two different holes to two different universes touched and was not interested in finding out just now; thanks anyway.)

I pictured myself drifting down gently into the locker, getting all nice and snug in there at my own pace, and even standing up and sticking my head through the gap between worlds to enjoy one last look at the space station. I would’ve liked to have seen the Earth of that universe one more time, tell it I was sorry for what the Gustavo Vidón of that world had done to it.

But nope. As soon as I’d stuck my feet through the portal, I’d been pulled back into my universe faster than you could say Gravity: It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law. Yep. I’d been in zero g for like fifteen minutes and already forgotten that, in my universe, gravity exists.

And I paid for it. I rag-dolled into the locker, hard, and did my best imitation of a fetus.

“Ow.”

The only thing that had saved me from being completely crushed to death was the hole in the back of the locker. My head, shoulders, front, and upper back pressed mercilessly against the unrelenting metal of the locker. But my posterior slid past the point where the metal locker and concrete wall should have blocked me.

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