Superkid by Christina Barr

Author:Christina Barr [Barr, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Mom tried to talk to me, but I didn’t want to talk to anybody all day. I only left my room to pee and to eat dinner, but that was only because Dad made me eat. I wasn’t even really that hungry. It was just another thing on the long list of things that he did to bug me.

I never thought I’d be so happy to go to school. I didn’t want him to take me, but at least I’d be gone for several hours. Of course all the kids probably hated me, but it was better than being home with him.

Mom didn’t wake me up for school in the morning though. When I woke up, it was a little past ten o’clock, which I thought it was weird. Mom never missed waking me up for school, not even when she was sick. I would remember if I didn’t have school. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t understand.

Then Dad came into my room while I was still under my covers. I still wasn’t ready to talk to him, so I leaned back into my bed and looked away.

“Don’t be that way, Felix.” He sat next to me on my bed and started to shake me a little bit. “Don’t go back to sleep. We’ve got an important task to do.”

He didn’t know the first thing about what was really important. “I should be at school,” I said.

“You’re not going to school today.”

“Why?” I asked surprised.

“Because I’m going to take you to the pool today so I can teach you how to swim.”

I turned around to look at Dad, very excited. “Really?”

“Yes, Sir.” He smiled and poked me in my stomach. “I wouldn’t lie about something like this. Swimming is a very big deal.” He wasn’t dressed in his work or business clothes. He had on some shorts and a T-shirt, like he was really ready to go swimming. It must have been true.

I hadn’t really gone swimming before. Mom might have taken me in the water, but she never let me go without those lame little toys that made you float. I would have swum before if my dad wouldn’t have stopped me from jumping into that lake. “I know how to swim,” I said.

Dad smiled like he was trying to hide a laugh. “Why don’t you wait and see what I have to show you?”

I knew he didn’t believe me, but it didn’t matter. He was wrong, just like he was wrong about me being a real and true superhero. I would prove him wrong about swimming and then maybe he would see that I wasn’t some dumb, little kid who didn’t know anything. I was gonna show him just how smart and special I really was. “Fine.”

Mom made me my favorite breakfast. She made a pancake face with strawberry eyes and a bacon smile. I didn’t know why Mom was trying real hard to be nice to me. I knew I wasn’t being so nice to her, but I wasn’t really mad at Mom.

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