Bungee Jump by Pam Withers

Author:Pam Withers
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459812185
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2016-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

The adults keep the kids from wandering into the ruins. Probably just as well, since Craven beaches his boat and keeps watch from the shore. We spread blankets on a rise, and someone pulls out a Frisbee. We toss that around and play some games. Someone points out a family of otters in the water.

“Time to eat!” Mr. Roth finally announces. We pull out our bags of food.

I wander off to eat with my friends. We skip flat stones into the water.

Owooo. A weird voice floats over the picnic area.

“What’s that?” Tom asks.

“A kid pretending to be a ghost,” I say, ignoring the younger students’ scared faces and searching for the source of the sound.

“Mr. Roth,” Anya calls out just then. She’s standing over us, holding a half-eaten sandwich that smells like tuna. Her face looks pale to me.

“Yes, Anya?”

“I don’t feel so good.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, Anya. Would you like—”

She bolts away for some bushes. She sprays them with vomit.

“Gross!” Tom exclaims. Other kids cover their mouths, giggle or stare at the poor girl.

“Oh-oh,” Mr. Roth says as he and a mom-volunteer hustle over to Anya.

A boat with two adults and Anya leaves early. The rest of the kids try to play Frisbee again, but no one seems into it.

“Anya has leprosy,” I hear someone whisper.

I leap up to challenge them. I notice a bunch of kids stampeding for the boats. Not Tom or any of my friends, of course. And the kids leaving seem more excited than scared, like they’re thrilled by the drama. But I don’t like the way they look back at Caitlin and me.

No way. They don’t really think… That is the stupidest rumor anyone could start. But it’s not like anyone asks me. And just like that, the annual school picnic is over.

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