Lost in London by Callaghan Cindy

Author:Callaghan, Cindy [Callaghan, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

16

We sat on the curb outside the MoviePlex. Sam tapped out words that Gordo dictated based on the printouts he had. Gordo also told him where to add a citation.

Ellie fidgeted and kept looking at her watch. “It’s almost four o’clock. I’m going to miss the previews. I hate missing the previews. Can’t you go any faster?”

Sam picked up his hand-phone and looked at Ellie. “It’s the Shut Your Piehole Factory; they want to talk to you,” he said.

She closed her mouth and huffed over to Caroline and started imitating Sam on his finger-phone. Caroline sent Ellie to buy tickets. I really hoped this movie would involve popcorn. I wouldn’t mind a hot dog, but that might be too much to hope for.

Finally Sam said, “Okay, it’s sent to the pastry jerk. We overachieved, my friend. Two hundred and fifty-six words.” He gave Gordo a high five.

Ellie rushed us through the theater. I passed a poster for Bloodsucking Zombies. It was a gruesome image of a walking-dead person with blood dripping from his mouth. I noticed it was rated “15.” A quick glance of the other movies and ratings told me that meant it was for kids fifteen and older. A little beat of excitement pulsed through my veins. Ellie handed me a ticket. I guess she’d passed for fifteen, which wasn’t really surprising. “My treat,” she said.

I thanked her.

I sat between Ellie and Sam. After only a second, Sam got up and left. “BRB,” he whispered.

Ellie said, “You know I started ‘BRB’?”

“Yeah?” I asked.

She nodded. I think she believed that she had started the abbreviation, but I didn’t think so.

The theater darkened, and a few previews later, blood started splattering everywhere.

Ellie was entranced. Something on the ground caught my eye. Her feet were glowing. She saw that I was staring. “Glow-in-the-dark socks,” she said. “Very popular.”

“Really?” I had never heard of them. I glanced down the row. Gordo’s feet were kicked up onto the chair in front of him, and a smile covered his face. I think Caroline was checking her watch. It was like she always wanted to be somewhere else, but her friends were all here. It didn’t make sense to me. In some ways I wanted to be like her—she was so pretty and had cool clothes and everyone wanted to be around her. But I didn’t think she was that nice to her friends. She’d been really nice to me all day, but it felt different than it had at Daphne’s. It was like she was . . . acting.

Sam came back with a bucket of popcorn and a mega-huge soda.

“Help yourself,” he whispered into my ear.

“Did you hear my stomach growling?” I whispered back.

“No, but I can only imagine after hanging out with those guys all day.”

“Why don’t they eat?” I asked.

He said, “Too busy, I think.”

Ellie shh-ed us. Sam and I stared at the screen with our hands occasionally meeting in the bucket. I had to think about something other than the blood and guts on the screen for a second:

• I was in London, staying in a mansion.

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