Through the Medicine Cabinet by Dan Greenburg

Author:Dan Greenburg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

I looked at my watch. I had only a half hour before our cab came. What was I doing hiding in a bathtub in a parallel universe? And how was I ever going to get back to mine?

I peeked through the blind. Zeke was nowhere in sight. And then I knew.

That little rat had sneaked back through the medicine cabinet door into my universe!

Chapter 5

I was in a panic.

At this very minute, Zeke was pretending to be me. He was getting ready to leave with my dad for the Yankee training camp in Florida!

I heard a knock at the bathroom door.

“Zeke, did you hear me? Are you ready?” said his father’s voice.

I held my breath.

The door opened. Zeke’s father came into the bathroom. Just then I sneezed.

“Achooooo!”

“Zeke? Are you in the shower?”

“No, sir,” I said.

The blinds were pulled up. There stood a dad who looked almost exactly like mine.

At first I was scared he might be mad. But then he began to laugh.

“What are you doing in the shower with your clothes on?” he asked.

“Resting,” I said.

“There’s no time for resting, Zeke. Our cab is coming in about half an hour. Have you got your retainer? Are you all packed?”

“Pretty much,” I said.

He looked at me oddly and frowned.

“You look a little different, son. Did you comb your hair a new way this morning?”

“Yes, sir. I did. That’s exactly what I did.”

“Uh huh. OK. Well, I still have a few things to do. Zeke, could you run to the dry cleaners quickly and pick up all our cleaning?”

The cleaners! The only place I wanted to go was back through the medicine cabinet. But what could I say?

“Uh, s-sure,” I stammered. “What cleaners would that be again?”

“You know. The one across the street and down the block.”

“Uh huh. And what block would that be again?”

He looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

“C’on,” he said. “You’ve gone there lots of times. Just get going. We have to leave soon.”

“OK,” I said.

He handed me a receipt and a twenty-dollar bill. Then he walked out of the bathroom.

The twenty-dollar bill looked strange. It was enormous. And when I examined it closely, I saw that along the top it said “The Untied States of America.” The picture on all the twenty-dollar bills I’ve seen is of Andrew Jackson. This one was of somebody with bushy hair, a beard, and nose-glasses. His name was Slappy Kupperman.

I left the apartment and went down in the elevator. Then I got outside. I wanted to get to the cleaners and back as fast as I could.

At the corner I waited for traffic to stop. It was taking forever. Then I looked up at the traffic signal and I saw why. Instead of a red and a green light, there were four lights.

The lights said, “STOP,” “NOT YET,” “HOLD ON,” and “OK, GO ALREADY.”

Newer York sure was a weird place.

A big billboard to my right said, “WE LOVE NEWER YORK! JUST AS GOOD AS NEW YORK. MAYBE BETTER!” Well, I didn’t think so.

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