Twerp by Mark Goldblatt

Author:Mark Goldblatt [Goldblatt, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-97144-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-05-28T07:00:00+00:00

Eric was sitting upright by the time I got back to Ponzini. He wasn’t doing it on his own, though. Shlomo and Howie were holding his shoulders, and Quentin and Lonnie were talking to him. There was still a lot of blood around his lips and on his chin.

“The ambulance is on its way,” I called to them.

Lonnie turned to me as I knelt down next to him. “I don’t think it’s too bad. I think maybe he just bit his tongue.”

Eric didn’t react to what Lonnie said. He wasn’t listening at that point.

“You don’t think it’s his balls?” Shlomo said.

Lonnie said, “I’ve never seen a guy fall like that. It could be his balls. It could be his balls got knocked up into his mouth. I’m not sure. How long till the ambulance gets here?”

Just then, we heard a siren. It was coming down Parsons Boulevard. Another five minutes passed before the doctors figured out how to get through the building and back to Ponzini. Then, at last, two of them rushed through the rear exit of the parking garage. My mom was right behind them—which kind of embarrassed me. But what could I do? Tell her not to come?

Right off, the doctors made Eric lie back down. He was still too woozy to answer their questions, so Lonnie told them what had happened. The doctors kind of smiled at one another when he explained how Eric fell. I didn’t like that much. It seemed kind of unprofessional, in my opinion. Then one of the doctors stood up and walked back out to the ambulance. It was a relief, in a weird way, the fact that he didn’t seem in too big a rush. He returned a couple of minutes later with a canvas stretcher. They lifted Eric onto it and hauled him out of Ponzini. We followed them through the parking garage and watched them load him into the back of the ambulance. He was starting to come around by then. We heard him telling the doctors his phone number. One of the doctors climbed into the back of the ambulance after him while the other climbed behind the wheel to drive. The siren started to blare. Then the back door of the ambulance slammed shut from the inside. That was the last we saw of Eric till he came home that night.

It turned out that there wasn’t much wrong with him. He just got bruised real bad where you don’t want to get bruised. Plus, he had bitten his tongue like Lonnie said. We were thankful that he was all right. But believe me, I’d hate to be Eric the Red from now on. He’s never going to hear the end of it.

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