Suckerpunch by David Hernandez

Author:David Hernandez [Hernandez, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: YA, Abuse, Revenge, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061173301
Google: tQH8lgEACAAJ
Amazon: 0061173304
Goodreads: 1755866
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2008-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

Look at the doors and windows, Oliver said. They’re all taped over.

How come?

Probably to keep the dust out, I said.

What I want to know is how the pilots who flew these planes got back to wherever they came from. Ashley snapped another picture.

Good question.

Oliver pulled off to the side of the road. Let’s check them out, he said.

What about him? Ashley motioned toward Enrique, who was still sleeping with his head against the window.

Screw him, I said.

I already did, Ashley said, smiling.

Oliver walked ahead and his boots kicked up beige clouds of dust. He hopped over the chain-link fence first, then me. Ashley climbed the fence last because she didn’t want Oliver or me to peek under her skirt while she went over. Once we all made it over the fence we headed toward a 747. In the chrome of the fuselage we could see our reflections, distorted like a carnival mirror. Ashley reached up and slid her hand across the aircraft as if she were petting a whale. Jesus, she said to herself.

Oliver dug up a stone and tossed it at the plane’s tailfin and it gonged like a church bell.

I never felt so puny as I felt while standing beside that massive plane, next to a girl I wanted but couldn’t have, in a place that was no place at all. I reached up and pressed my palm against the airplane and felt the cold metal.

Can I ask you something? Ashley said.

Sounds serious.

Not really.

What is it?

Well, Ashley said. Your hand.

I took my hand away from the aircraft and held it before her, wiggling the stump. Let me guess, I said. You want to know what happened.

I already know. Your brother told me.

Oh.

I was wondering if you could still feel it.

What do you mean, like a phantom limb?

Yeah.

I lifted my hand and curled and uncurled my fingers.

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