Aleca Zamm Is Ahead of Her Time by Ginger Rue

Author:Ginger Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

5

Aunt Zephyr Shows Off

“Aleca, this is so fun!” Maria said as we continued to skate.

If I hadn’t been so worried about Madison knowing my secret, I would’ve agreed. The lights were pretty, pulsing in time with the music, and the deejay even started playing my favorite song. I think maybe it was also the deejay’s favorite song, because he was fist-pumping to the beat, with his arms way up in the air and his head bobbing like a chicken’s. One time, one of the big gold chains around his neck whacked him pretty hard in the face, but lucky for him he had on big sunglasses that absorbed most of the whack. He looked around to see if anyone had noticed, then acted like it had never happened and kept on pumping his fists.

Madison and Jordan skated past us, and Madison made a V  with her fingers and held them to her eyes; then she pointed them at me and mouthed, “I’m watching you!” I felt like I’d swallowed a brick, but I couldn’t let Maria see that I was upset, so I kept right on skating.

Other kids from our class skated by and would wave or say happy birthday, but of course I couldn’t hear them over the music. Besides, I was on a mission. I had to find Aunt Zephyr. It took a few minutes before I spotted her on the opposite side of the rink from us. And wow! She actually was a really good skater! She was twisting her hips to the music, spinning around, and twirling on one foot. At one point she even bent down all the way to the ground, with her hiney almost to the floor and one leg straight out! I was impressed!

The bad news was that there was no way I could catch up with her. I’d have to wait to talk to her when she wore herself out.

Soon the deejay announced it was time for the races. “All right, all right! Who’s got a need for speed? Who’s ready to have a blast going fast? Can I get a what-what?”

No one gave him a what-what, whatever that actually is, but that didn’t stop the deejay from pretending someone had. “That’s right! That’s what I’m talking about!” he called, followed by a woo-hoo. He started the races with the little kids, ages four to seven.

I thought I recognized one of the boys who had lined up. “Doesn’t he go to our school?” I asked Maria.

“Yeah,” Maria nodded. “He’s new. He’s in the third grade.”

“He looks too small to be in third grade,” I noted.

“I think he is,” remarked Maria. “He’s like a genius or something. They double-double promoted him.”

“What’s ‘double-double promoted’?”

“Well, ‘double promoted’ is when you skip a grade. ‘Double-double promoted’ is when you skip two of them at once.”

“Like jumping two checkers instead of one?”

“I guess so,” replied Maria. “His name is Ford Kimble. There was an article in the paper about how smart he is. He speaks a bunch of languages, and I think they said he helped invent something with some professors.

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