This Is Not a Werewolf Story by Sandra Evans

Author:Sandra Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Solidarity. Mary Anne and I don’t say anything to anybody about what Vincent did. Ms. Tern would say that I am conflicted. Part of me gets all pumped up whenever I think about it. Cook Patsy taught me to wrestle Tuffman, Dean Swift made me talk to him, but Vincent scared the daylights out of him.

The other part of me knows it was the worst, dumbest, stupidest idea in the world. Obviously Vincent didn’t expect Mary Anne to come running through that scene. But Tuffman, a gun, and a piñata full of fireworks? Nothing good’s gonna come of that.

Vincent doesn’t mention it either. He looks a little worried around Mary Anne at first, but she just tells us her usual stories about Samish princesses married to sea gods and children kidnapped by shape-shifting otters. In the dining hall Vincent sits to my left and Mary Anne to my right. Sometimes Mary Anne’s shoulder brushes mine and neither of us pulls away.

Tuffman doesn’t know what hit him or who got him. For a day or two he’s a shadow of himself. He pulls out a parachute and lets us play popcorn in PE. Every once in a while he calls me “son.” It makes me want to shove him away. There’s only one man who calls me that, I want to say. And it’s not you.

Ms. Tern has us read informational texts on gun safety. She’s not going to help me get the cougar, I’ve figured that much out about her. But she gives me a little wink every now and then that makes me glow inside.

Nobody hears or sees the cougar. I bet it’s gone away.

On Friday morning when it’s my turn to help out in the kitchen, Cook Patsy gives me a hug.

“It’s nice to see you looking so happy,” she says. “You and your friends.”

I knew she liked me. But I didn’t know how much.

“Thank you,” I say. I always mean it when I say that. I hope she knows how much.

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