The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

Author:Charles de Lint [Lint, Charles de]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9780142405451
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Amazon: 0142405450
Goodreads: 182332
Publisher: Firebird
Published: 2004-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

I spend the day haunting the halls of Redding High, trying to decide whom I’m going to offer up to the soul-eaters in place of Imogene. It ought to be easy, but there are so many people I don’t like in this place, so many who think they’re better than everybody else, or who rag on people who aren’t cool or popular. Or both. And even the ones who aren’t strong enough to be bullies ... I don’t doubt that, given the chance, they wouldn’t be any different from the jerks who are making their lives miserable right now.

I know I would have. I wouldn’t have picked on the kids weaker than me, but the bullies ... they’re a whole other matter. I’d still like to give them a taste of what they did.

It kind of makes me glad that I’m not alive, because I find that, in general, I don’t much like people anymore. The faces are mostly different from when I went here, but they might as well be the same kids and teachers. Truth is, except for the fact that I’m dead, nothing s really changed. Because now I’m avoiding the fairies, and with Imogene mad at me, I’m still just wandering these halls totally on my own.

Always being the guy no one likes really sucks.

But at least I can’t be hurt anymore. Or at least not physically hurt, since I don’t have a body But I do have a big ache in my heart because of how things are going with Imogene. Not that they were actually going anywhere before this. Let’s face it, I’m dead and she’s not, and that doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for a relationship. But at least she used to come talk to me. Or she’d wink at me when she passed me in the halls. Today she left school right after homeroom, and I knew it had to be because of me.

I guess I don’t blame her. She’s obviously upset by these dreams that Tommery’s sending her. She’d totally lose it if she knew about the soul-eaters. Not that getting mad at me is going to do her any good.

I wish I’d kept my mouth shut instead of getting Tommery to work on making her see that he and the rest of the fairies are real.

What difference does it make if she doesn’t believe me? At least before this she was still talking to me.

I find myself drifting into the cafeteria. A noisy table by the windows catches my attention. It’s Brent Calder and his buddies, laughing at some kid Jerry Fielder tripped. The kid’s on the floor and trying not to cry, his lunch spilled all over his pants and the tiles around him.

I guess I knew all along whom I’d choose—I mean, it’s so obvious. Who better than the jerk who gave Imogene such a hard time when I first saw her?

Calder’s not so different from Eric Woodrow, who’d made it his own personal crusade to ensure that my life was as miserable as it could be back when I was at Redding.

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