What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sarah Hollowell
- Language: English
- Genre:Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Friendship
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The corn is the vibrant green of midsummer. The stalks tower above us, too
high to see over, even if we jump. The entrance to the maze is marked by hay
bales that make my legs itch just looking at them.
I sip from my water bottle just for something to do with myself other than
stare at the maze. It barely dilutes the taste of the Pixy Stix–flavored crushed
ice I ate on the drive.
Logan, pacing the edge of the field, says, “This shouldn’t be here.”
“I know,” I say.
“Like, really shouldn’t. Like, I’d sooner believe it’s a hologram.” He
reaches out one hand but stops short of touching the corn.
I’m not a farm kid or anything, but growing up in Indiana tends to mean
absorbing some knowledge through osmosis. I know that corn mazes are for
fall, when the corn is full-grown.
It’s only May 2. Far as I know, this maze is impossible.
It was a mark of true friendship that when Logan picked me up that morning,
he took one look at my face and said, “You wanna skip the field trip?”
It wasn’t just any field trip. It was the Kings Island trip. It was the theme
park–shaped prize we all got for surviving AP Physics. Everyone looked
forward to it all year.
Everyone except me.
I’m the only one in the class fat enough to have to worry about if I’d fit on
the rides. I’ve been to a theme park all of once, and it included slinking back
through the line of a roller coaster after the bar wouldn’t close over my
stomach.
I can know it’s not my fault that the ride wasn’t built with people like me
in mind, or that the walk back through the line shouldn’t be embarrassing
because I didn’t do anything wrong. I existed while fat—that’s it. I can know
all of that and still not want to do it again. I can still worry about being
perceived as Logan’s fat friend who holds him back.
Ever since my parents signed the permission slip, I’d been imagining that
terrible walk back through the line. Would Logan avert his eyes and pretend
not to know me? Bri and Gracie were in our class, so they’d be there. Would
they stare at me and think, Thank god we got out of that friendship?
“We can’t,” I responded, gripping the straps of my messenger bag a little
too tight. “Miss it, I mean. We can’t miss the trip.”
“Sadie. Do you really want to go?”
I kept my eyes on the dashboard, unblinking, but I could feel Logan
watching me. I thought, Tell him! Be open! Show him you trust him! If I did
that, our friendship, only as old as the school year, could grow and solidify.
As usual, the words just wouldn’t come out.
Logan tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, then stated, “Okay,
executive decision. I say we ditch.”
Maybe it was selfish of me, but I didn’t argue.
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