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- Author: Guadalupe García McCall
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The darkness comes upon us so quickly, I just know it’s a sign. This move
across the country to Brentville, Oregon, is all wrong for us. I can feel it,
deep down in the pit of my stomach—leaving Texas was a big mistake.
Selling our little house in Somerset was a mistake too, because now we
don’t have a place to go back to. But the biggest mistake was moving all the
way up here, to a state known for having the largest fungus in America.
Honestly, who brags about that? Not that I could’ve stopped any of it. I’m
only twelve years old. Wherever my parents go, I have to go with them,
fungus or no fungus.
“It’s going to rain,” I say, peering up at the darkening sky. “It always
rains out here, you know. We’ll be wet and miserable for the rest of our
lives.”
“Actually, it rains less than half the year out here, James.” My father
parks the car in our new driveway and gets out. He puts his hands on his
waist and stretches, arching his back and twisting his neck.
“It rains one hundred and sixty days a year out here, which might as
well be all the time. That’s 43.8 percent of the time. I know. I looked it up,”
I say as I open the car door to get out.
“Careful not to let your chucho out,” my mother says. “Not without his
leash. He doesn’t know the neighborhood.”
I push on Baxter’s chest gently and give his thick black fur a friendly
tug. “Stay with Ava,” I tell him.
But Baxter whines and looks over at my little sister, Ava, whose slack
face is pressed against the window on the other side of the car. It’s been a
while since he went number one, at least two hours, and I can see he needs
to come out.
“Oh, okay,” I say as I look around for his leash on the floorboard.
Finding it, I clip it to his collar and let him climb out of the car. I walk
around with him, letting him find a good place to lift his leg. Baxter does
his business against a stump far from the house, on the edge of the property,
before we walk over to my parents on the other side of the yard.
“Now, there’s a grand view if I ever saw one!” my father says, and my
mother grins as she leans into him.
My mother puts her hand to her forehead to shade her eyes and takes a
deep breath. “I’ve never seen so many trees in my life! They’re so . . .
majestic.”
I take my phone out of my pocket and try to turn it on, but it’s no use.
It’s dead.
“It’s impressive,” my father tells my mother.
I’m not impressed. To be honest, I am feeling a little caged in—missing
the brightness of summers in Texas. This wall of trees goes on forever,
surrounding us, closing us in. The dark-gray sliver of sky above promises to
make everything cold and dismal. And because it’s been raining here, the
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