Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent

Author:Rose Kent
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

I walked to Nash’s house, but nobody was home. Then I headed toward Shear Impressions, but turned around. I didn’t want to face Mom yet.

Somehow I ended up at the Jiffy Wash.

“Yongsu’s out back,” Mrs. Han said, carrying a stack of shirts and jerking her head in that direction.

I was heading for the door when Ok-hee walked in.

“Mrs. Peroutka told my class that you won the essay contest,” she said with an unexpected smile.

I nodded, wishing I could disappear between the hangers of shrink-wrapped clothes.

“My essay was about my great-grandmother in Taegu. She made beautiful mother-of-pearl jewelry boxes. What did you write about?”

“Miscellaneous Korean stuff,” I said. Ok-hee was finally acting normal, not superior, but this topic was off limits.

A customer walked in with a blanket in her arms, and Mrs. Han turned around.

“I’d like to read your essay,” Ok-hee said.

Double geez.

“Sorry, left it at school. See ya!” I said, tearing out of there faster than the Flash, the quickest dude in the comic book universe.

Yongsu was in the parking lot, fooling around with an old skateboard he’d found next to the Dumpster. He got us root beers from the fridge, and we hung out for a while. We didn’t talk about school, Korea, or anything, really. I just watched him try skateboard jumps and wipe out a lot. He took so many spills that we started counting them and laughing.

I almost forgot about that lousy essay. Almost.

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