Saving Wonder by Mary Knight

Author:Mary Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

On the ride home, I get a niggle.

That’s what Jules would call it, anyway. It’s the word she gave me this week, since Papaw couldn’t. She says a niggle is an idea that comes to you by way of intuition—an inner kind of knowing you can’t learn in books. Niggles often come out of the blue, she says. And sometimes they don’t make sense. Like the one I just got.

“Stay with JD,” this niggle says to me.

I say, Huh? Not out loud, of course. Mr. A would think I’m nuts. He’s lost in his own world, anyway. So I begin to have this little conversation with myself, or maybe it’s with the niggle. It goes something like this:

You’ve got to be absolutely out of your mind! Stay with JD?! He’s the enemy … or at least the son of the enemy. A mortal enemy, if there ever was one.

“Stay with JD,” the niggle says again.

Jules warned me about this. Rarely does a niggle explain itself, she said. I thought she was crazy. Now I know … I am.

But what will I do there? I’ll have to eat with them, maybe even sleep in the same room with JD himself. What good could that possibly do?

“Stay with JD.”

A niggle keeps on coming at you, apparently, kind of like a rabid hound, and it won’t let you go until you’ve really heard it. None of this is in the Big Book, incidentally. This is straight from Jules.

Okay, let’s say I stay with JD. Let’s say I stay for a weekend. Will that be enough?

Silence.

Is that a yes?

Silence.

I don’t believe this is happening.

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