The Hot List (2007)
“We’d had a four-day weekend because of Thanksgiving, and I was afraid that over that time, he might have reverted back, style-wise. Good, he had on his long-sleeved skateboarding T-shirt. There were no superheroes or zombies in sight.
But then I saw something that made my skin prickle and feel hive-y.
In the middle of the cafeteria, Elio and Squid and Gabriel had stacked a giant pile of Legos. Legos were cool. I mean, when I was seven I had actually gone to Legoland outside of San Diego, but th...at’s because I was seven. This was middle school, and they were making spaceships and making spaceship-type sounds and laughing goofily about it. And everyone was staring and whispering at them, especially the Nia/Maddie table.
Legos. Really, that was one step away from building blocks.
Elio had some kind of master Lego builder T-shirt, as if he had planned some sort of geeky Lego-themed day. No. Everything that I had worked so hard to build would crumble unless Squid distanced himself from Elio and Gabriel and their heaps of little plastic toys that snapped together.MoreLess
But then I saw something that made my skin prickle and feel hive-y.
In the middle of the cafeteria, Elio and Squid and Gabriel had stacked a giant pile of Legos. Legos were cool. I mean, when I was seven I had actually gone to Legoland outside of San Diego, but th...at’s because I was seven. This was middle school, and they were making spaceships and making spaceship-type sounds and laughing goofily about it. And everyone was staring and whispering at them, especially the Nia/Maddie table.
Legos. Really, that was one step away from building blocks.
Elio had some kind of master Lego builder T-shirt, as if he had planned some sort of geeky Lego-themed day. No. Everything that I had worked so hard to build would crumble unless Squid distanced himself from Elio and Gabriel and their heaps of little plastic toys that snapped together.MoreLess
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