The Infinity Year of Avalon James by Dana Middleton

Author:Dana Middleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250085689
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

TEN

The day after Christmas, I woke to a knock at my window. It wasn’t Mr. Squirrel. It was Atticus.

I rubbed my eyes and got out of bed. It was cold and I could tell from the light outside that it was really early. I opened my window. “What are you doing here?” I asked.

He looked at me and didn’t say anything, but I could tell something was very wrong.

“Get in,” I said, unsnapping the screen on my window. He crawled inside and I quickly shut the window behind him. It was freezing out there.

“What’s going on?” I asked. I turned to see him pulling my bedspread around him. His face was all red and he was shivering.

“I rode my bike over,” he said through chattering teeth.

“You rode your bike over!” That was crazy. His house was miles away. “Are you okay?” I asked, and sat down beside him. He was clearly not okay.

“I had to get out of there,” he said.

“You had to get out of your house?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said.

Then it hit me. “What did he do? What did Michael do to you?”

“He didn’t do anything,” he mumbled.

Huh? This wasn’t making any sense. I looked at Atticus like I was deciphering a puzzle. Finally, I asked, “Atticus, what’s wrong?”

He didn’t answer. He sat on my bed, still as a stone, and wouldn’t even look at me. So, I sat there, too, and waited. Which is hard for me. Because I’m Avalon.

“Remember when we went to the farm before Halloween?” he said. I thought back. Yeah, I remembered. Something had been wrong with him that day, too. Also, it was the day he had lied to me. I had not forgotten that.

I nodded.

“My mom was really upset that morning and I didn’t know what to do.”

“I remember. It was about a test or something, right?” I asked.

“No, Avie. It wasn’t about a test,” he said. “I lied to you.”

So he really did lie to me. I hadn’t imagined it. It hurt a little for him to say it out loud.

“Oh. Okay,” I said, trying to act like it wasn’t a big deal. “So you lied to me—”

“I never lie to you,” he exclaimed. “I never do, Avie. And I’m so sorry because friends don’t lie to each other and we are friends. Infinity friends. It’s just there’s something I’ve never told you and if I don’t tell you now, it will be like lying to you all over again. And I don’t know who else to tell, but I can’t tell anyone because nobody can know. I don’t know what else to do. I can only tell you, Avie. I can only tell you.”

He stopped. He was all out of breath. He was almost shaking.

“Okay,” I said. “Then tell me.”

He looked at me and said, “I wet the bed.”

I didn’t say anything.

“I’m ten years old and I wet the bed,” he said, and dropped his head. “It’s not like it happens all the time anymore. It even stopped for a while last year and I thought it was over, but it came back again.

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