Believing in Brooklyn by Matt de la Pena

Author:Matt de la Pena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Benny’s grandma wasn’t on the couch when he got home. She was in her room, sleeping. He tiptoed into his own room and found something shocking. A large Pino’s pizza box sitting on his cracked stool. He couldn’t believe it. He popped open the box, found a mix of slices. Pepperoni and plain and mushroom and garden-style and even his all-time favorite, Hawaiian. They weren’t steaming hot out of the oven—in fact, they looked a day old—but that didn’t stop his stomach from growling. Plus, his first wish came slightly different from what he said, too.

Benny closed the box without eating any pizza and sat there for a couple minutes, thinking. Nothing like this had ever happened to him. But what exactly was happening? He didn’t know.

He got up and opened the closet door, looking for clues. He lifted his mattress. Peeked up into the hollow fireplace. Opened the window and looked up and down the fire escape. He walked down the hall toward his grandma’s room, calling out, “Hey, Grams! You put that pizza in—” He cut himself short when he remembered she was in bed, asleep.

He walked quietly back into his room, remembering how Julie and Sylvia had gone to Pino’s for lunch. How Sylvia had promised to pay him back. Then there was Ray bringing up his wish machine picture after school. That grin on his face when he said Benny should wish for a date with Julie. Julie Bauer. JB. Letters that made him think of Ronny’s headphones and how Ronny had wanted to confirm that Benny lived by the condemned brownstone. The private school girl in the Santa cap even came to mind. The way she’d turned around and looked at him.

Somebody was playing him.

Benny opened the pizza box again. Looked a little too old to actually eat, though, so he closed it back up.

He imagined if there was a hidden camera somewhere in his room. And people all over the internet were sitting with their bowls of popcorn, watching him. Laughing at him.

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