Imaginalis by J. M. DeMatteis
Author:J. M. DeMatteis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-05-14T16:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Finding the Dreamer
âSo,â Celeste asked me the following Sunday morning at Queenstown Family, âwhatâs with Porky Boy and Bizarro Girl?â I kept trying to duck her, but she finally cornered me in the pantry. Considering she was stuffing her face with a custard doughnutâand Iâd been seeing her on the bus in the afternoonsâI figured she was definitely over her health kick.
âExcuse me?â I said.
âI mean, you dump me and start hanging around some fat kid with a nose the size of a football and some goofy girl in an ugly yellow dress?â She was right, I pretty much had dumped her. âThe same dress every day,â Celeste went on. âWhatâs up with that? And that hair? With those pigtails sticking straight out and those bangs in her eyes, she looks like a sheepdog that stuck its paw in an electrical socket.â
That was pretty harsh, but I wondered if Celeste was acting that way becauseâ¦maybeâ¦she missed me. I mean, I was her best friend. Once. In fact, I was starting to feel so guilty about it that I was kinda sorta considering telling her everything that was going on. âTheyâre nice kids,â I said.
âWell, they totally creep me out,â Celeste said. âThey always have. Yâknow, I canât figure why youâve gone all gaga over these idiots all of a sudden. I mean, youâve known them since the first grade.â Of course I hadnât, but since Uncle Nossyss and Prognosticaâor Ellison and Claireâhad been going to school with me every day, we needed some way to explain them, soâ¦you guessed itâ¦the old elephant put a whammy on the whole school to make people think that theyâd always been there. âAnd whatâs with that other kid I see you with sometimes? The one who looks like heâs foreign or something?â She was talking about Imagos. Heâd taken some walks around the neighborhood with me. Called them âsociological expeditions,â a way to understand our world and its customs. âWhatâs a boy that hot doing hanging out with you?â
I couldnât believe she said that to me. I almost said something super awful backâand maybe I would have, if we werenât in a place where we were supposed to be nice to people. Instead I just walked away from her and sat down at one of the tables. I looked over at Celesteâreally quickâand she had this weird look on her face, like maybe she felt bad about what sheâd said.
âI heard what Fish Face said to you.â I hadnât realized that there was a boy already sitting there. He was about fourteen. Tall and skinny, with red hair down to his shoulders and an expression on his face like he thought he was really cool or something. He was wearing a faded old jean jacket, a black T-shirt, and pants so low and baggy I thought they might slide off.
âWhatâd you say?â I asked.
âFish Face,â he said, nodding his head toward where Celeste was standing in the back. He squinted at me. âYou
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