Ellray Jakes is Not a Chicken (2011)
Ellray Jakes is Not a Chicken
“Jared whispers at lunch. “Here he is, finally. What’s the matter, EllRay? Scared to be alone with us?”
“Yeah,” Stanley chimes in, his voice soft. “BUK, BUK, BUK!”
This is his idea of how a chicken talks, I guess, which is just dumb, because chickens do not talk. But basically, Stanley is saying that I’m chicken.
“Shut up,” I tell him out of the side of my mouth.
I suddenly realize, though, that I am sitting at the end of the picnic table bench, not somewhere safe in the middle—like between Core...y and Kevin, for example. Or even between two girls, if girls sat at our table—which they don’t, lately, ever since the food fight.
But that’s a whole different story.
Uh-oh. I have made a b-i-i-i-g mistake.
Jared makes a knuckly fist and secretly starts twisting it into my ribs, which are still aching from yesterday’s knuckle-grinding. He smiles at everyone else in a fake-friendly way while he is doing it, so they won’t know something bad is happening.
Stanley stands back and watches the knuckling, and his eyes are nervous and bright behind his smudged glasses.MoreLess
“Yeah,” Stanley chimes in, his voice soft. “BUK, BUK, BUK!”
This is his idea of how a chicken talks, I guess, which is just dumb, because chickens do not talk. But basically, Stanley is saying that I’m chicken.
“Shut up,” I tell him out of the side of my mouth.
I suddenly realize, though, that I am sitting at the end of the picnic table bench, not somewhere safe in the middle—like between Core...y and Kevin, for example. Or even between two girls, if girls sat at our table—which they don’t, lately, ever since the food fight.
But that’s a whole different story.
Uh-oh. I have made a b-i-i-i-g mistake.
Jared makes a knuckly fist and secretly starts twisting it into my ribs, which are still aching from yesterday’s knuckle-grinding. He smiles at everyone else in a fake-friendly way while he is doing it, so they won’t know something bad is happening.
Stanley stands back and watches the knuckling, and his eyes are nervous and bright behind his smudged glasses.MoreLess
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