Wish You Were Here, Liza by Robin Wasserman
Author:Robin Wasserman [Robin Wasserman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545282963
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
I ran until I got to the very edge of the ghost town. I thought I would feel better once I was alone. I was wrong. Maybe it was because I was by myself on a hill that reminded me too much of that hill in Oklahoma and the night when Jake had finally seen me as an equal. Or so I’d thought.
Turned out he’d never seen me as anything but “some little kid.”
Some little kid named Lizard.
I wiped my face angrily and pulled out my camera. For a second, I wanted to hurl it off the hill. Or bash it into a rock. It would be satisfying to see something break. But instead, I took a picture of the Texas desert stretching out beneath me. Not quite happily ever after, I captioned it in my head. But this one was too tormented for the Journal of Torment. It was just for me.
Footsteps crunched the ground behind me.
It’s Jake, I thought. He wants to apologize. And as soon as he looks at me, he’ll realize that I’m the only one for him and we’ll laugh about this whole thing and it will be part of the funny story of How We Met and—
“You okay, Liza?”
It wasn’t Jake.
I kept my back to Caleb. “Fine,” I said, hoping he wouldn’t notice that my voice was fuzzy. “So you can go.”
He sat down.
“I don’t want to talk,” I told him, trying not to sound mean. Caleb wasn’t the kind of guy you wanted to be mean to, no matter how rotten and twisted you felt.
He took off his glasses and rubbed the lenses against his shirt, trying to wipe off the desert grit. “You know why we call you Lizard?” he asked quietly. His eyes were really green and wide without the glasses. But then he put them back on, and I decided I liked him better that way. He looked more like Caleb.
“Because you love to annoy me?”
“Because you asked us to,” he said.
That didn’t make any sense.
“When we were seven,” he continued. “It was on that trip to Florida. Our parents dragged us to some kind of alligator farm, and it was ridiculously boring until you started naming all the lizards and making up stories about what they were doing. You saved us from dying of boredom. And you made us call you the Lizard Queen for the rest of the trip.”
I remembered the alligator farm, but not the rest of it. “That was a long time ago,” I pointed out.
“Pretty memorable,” Caleb said.
I didn’t know what to say. I’d never really thought of myself as the kind of person that anyone remembered. If anything, I always figured I was easy to forget.
Caleb rummaged in his backpack and pulled out a small cardboard box. He shoved it in my direction. “These are for you,” he muttered, his face bright red.
“You got me a present?”
“No,” he said quickly. “I mean, yes, I guess, technically, but not really. It’s just something—no big deal. I just…” He looked down.
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