Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds

Author:Jason Reynolds
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2017-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Outside was still pretty quiet, besides the sound of Fat Tony and his boys. They had returned to the block, and were leaning against the gate, their laughter cutting the still air.

“What’s good, Mr. Davis? Miley Miles?” Fat Tony said, tossing a hand up.

“What’s happening, Tony?” Miles’s father said, closing the gate at the bottom of the stoop. Before Miles could speak, his father grabbed him by the arm and walked the opposite way.

“Yo, Mr. Davis?” Tony called. Miles’s father turned around. “You saw what happened to Neek?”

“Yeah, I saw it.”

“What you think he did?” Tony asked. Miles glanced across the street at Neek’s house. The cat was now sitting on the top step of the stoop. It licked itself before snapping its head up to catch Miles’s eye.

It was as if it knew Miles was watching.

It was as if it knew Miles.

“I have no idea,” Miles’s father said, shaking his head, and turning back around. Miles was locked on the cat. The eyes, strangely familiar. Almost magnetic. It cocked its head, studying Miles before standing up and bending into a ferocious arch of fur again.

You’re just like me, Miles swore the cat said. Swore he saw the cat actually fix his mouth to make those words. Miles narrowed his eyes, only to see the cat was just hissing. Its tail waved back and forth, but not like normal. Most cats’ tails move like charmed serpents. This one’s moved like a snake’s rattle. Miles’s father grabbed him by the arm again, but Miles couldn’t turn away. His eyes started to dry out, his vision blurring, the single tail of this feral cat splitting into several coiled tails.

The cat from his dream.

And the wrist of Mr. Chamberlain.

Mr. Chamberlain.

“Come on,” Miles’s father said. Miles tripped over his feet, turning with his father while keeping his eyes on the cat. Mr. Chamberlain. Miles looked over his shoulder once more as he reluctantly headed on. His brain was firing thoughts. Well, really just one: It’s Mr. Chamberlain. He wasn’t sure what that actually meant, but he knew something was up with his history teacher. Something more than just him being a jerk. But there was still so much that didn’t make sense. Like, what did Chamberlain have to do with Neek? And what did Miles have to do with any of it?

“So…you okay?” Miles’s father asked, five steps into the walk, if you could call what Miles was doing walking. He had resorted to more of a bumble. Not very Spider-Man–like.

“Uh-huh. Yeah.” Miles tried to shake the distraction. He stuffed his hands into the hoodie’s kangaroo pouch, then, unable to resist, looked behind him once more for the cat. It was gone.

“You don’t seem like it. Anything you need to talk about? Maybe about what happened today?”

Miles swallowed the marble still lodged in his throat and turned to his father. “Do you…um…believe me?” This is what mattered more than anything. It was one thing to be accused by his dean. Another to lose the trust of his folks.

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