Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder

Author:Laurel Snyder [Snyder, Laurel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89998-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

I was starting to scribble “Epicurus” when the meaning of those words hit me.

I reread the sentence: “The sum total of all things was always such as it is now.” I scanned farther down and saw the words “in a closed system, matter is neither created nor destroyed.” I couldn’t read any further. The letters swam and blurred as I thought about the magic, about the unicorn horn the box never gave me, and the keys it did. I thought about where everything had come from.

Of course I’d been stealing. I’d been stealing all along. Things couldn’t be wished from thin air. Of course, of course, of course. We’d been talking about it this whole time, in school of all places. I just hadn’t been paying attention. The more I thought about it, the crazier I felt. Everything was coming undone inside and outside me. So I decided to stop thinking altogether and concentrated instead on simply trying not to scream. I stared out the window and left the whole test blank. It didn’t matter anyway. It was just a stupid test some girl named Becky was taking in a school she didn’t really go to that was full of people who hated her, because she really was a thief and she deserved it.

When the bell rang, I flew out of that room. I flew out of the building. For the first time in my life, I cut school. I didn’t think twice about it. I was never going back, not ever. I didn’t care what my mom said. Becky was gone, and Rebecca was lost, and nothing made good sense because nothing made sense at all.

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