Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!)
Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn."
“Okay,” I said. “Good tip. Everyone stay off the third rail.
Then I shot Fang a look that said, Thank you for that lovely image. He almost grinned at me.
Veins practically popping out of his neck, the jerk leaned out his window and yelled a bunch of swear words, including a new one I tucked away in my brain for future use, if necessary.
James PattersonI want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.”
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.
James PattersonI flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap.
I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—?
Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly.
“Well, that’ll simplify things,” Fang said.
It was the building from the drawing in my brain.
And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.
I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.
James PattersonI won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.
James PattersonI led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.
James PattersonThe receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.
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