The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner

Author:Jennifer Weiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER 11

MOST OF HER TIME AT the Center, Alice had tried to be quiet, to be invisible, to slip, unnoticed, among her classmates. The night after the Jessica Jarvis incident she decided not to care.

Late that night, she stomped up the path to the dining hall, cracking branches, kicking dead leaves, doing everything but banging Phil’s bongos to announce her arrival. The dining-hall doors were locked, but instead of looking for the key that she knew Kate kept underneath the mat, Alice slammed the door as hard as she could with her shoulder, giving a humorless smile when it popped open on her first attempt. If they thought she was a monster, well, then, she’d behave like a monster.

Alice yanked open the refrigerator. At the end of that awful, endless day, she’d refused to go to dinner, had stayed in bed, flat on her belly with a pillow over her head.

“Kate made you something special,” Lori said after paying a special visit to Bunk Ladybug, but Alice had refused to answer or even move.

Lori hadn’t lied. There was a plate in the walk-in refrigerator, covered in wax paper, with “For Alice” written on it in Kate’s dashed-off scribble. Last week they’d been experimenting with brownie recipes, adding swirls of dark chocolate, marshmallow drizzle, bits of toffee, and peppermint. It had been fun.

Alice snatched the plate and turned to go. She’d walk to the lake, she’d eat her treat, and then she’d figure out if she even wanted to stay at this place or whether she should just call her parents, admit defeat, and beg them to bring her back home.

On her way out, she stopped and looked at the stack of clean plates on the shelf, the rows of bowls for the morning’s porridge, the heavy mugs for tea. Before she’d even planned it, she stretched out her arm and swept a stack of pottery onto the floor. The crash was deafening as the plates and bowls shattered into nasty-looking shards and pottery dust. Alice leaped over the mess, still holding her brownies, and started to walk down to the lake.

The day had been just as horrible as she’d feared. She’d lain awake all night, too ashamed and furious to sleep, and when it was time for Daily Conversation, her eyes felt gritty, like they were full of sand, and her arms and neck were knotted with cramps.

“Oh,” she heard Riya say as the girls stepped out of the cabin in the morning. Riya stopped moving like she’d been frozen. Taley gasped.

Alice pushed past them. It looked like the campus had been hit by some strange snowstorm that had left the tree trunks blanketed in white.

Then Alice saw what was going on. Jessica and her crew had had a busy night. It wasn’t snow on the trees; it was pieces of paper. Each one of them had her picture. Her picture, with another one beside it. On some posters she was lined up next to a Bigfoot, and sometimes the Thing or the Incredible Hulk or King Kong.

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