"Mary Rosenblum - Color Vision" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rosenblum Mary)

тАЬMelanie has an attention problem,тАЭ Mrs. B twitters. тАЬSheтАЩs a special
ed student.тАЭ

Catherine Summers, head of the In Crowd, kind of snickers, and I can
feel my face getting hot. But then I notice this ugly old dish on Mrs. BтАЩs
desk, the one she puts paper clips in.

ItтАЩs gold. With like . . . rubies in it.

Yeah . . . something is really wrong.

тАЬI am so looking forward to working with everyone in the school.тАЭ Mr.
TeleomaraтАЩs glittery silver words are kind of hanging in the air. Like fog. And
thatтАЩs not how synesthesia works either. TheyтАЩre drifting around me and I
can feel тАШem, like powdered razor blades or something. They make me itch.

Mr. Teleomara smiles even more like Mr. Beasley. тАЬMelanie Dreyling,
it has been a long time.тАЭ

Uh-oh. Dreyling is my real name.

He canтАЩt know that. But heтАЩs smiling right at me and that razor-dust
silver is so thick I can barely see JeremyтАЩs surprised look. I got to get out of
here. I got to tell Dad. Better yet, I got to tell Cris. HeтАЩll know what
hap-pened to Mr. Beasley and the dish.

But I canтАЩt move. CanтАЩt breathe. The silver stuff is clogging up the air.
 тАЬI know your mother,тАЭ he says. тАЬYou look just like her.тАЭ

ThereтАЩs this buzzing in my ears, and I think of Mr. Beasley grabbing
the poor mice and how they scream one little mousey scream before he
squeezes them. ThereтАЩs this buzzing in my ears and my stomach kind of
turns inside out, maybe from breathing the razor-dust air. And Mrs. B is
clucking about my name and IтАЩm going to faint or ...

. . . throw up.

All over my math book. And the desk. And the floor.

The silver goes away. Then Mrs. B is scolding ugly, storm-colored
words and everybody is making yuck noises and the colors are all off and
sick. IтАЩm going to puke again, so I just bolt. Out the door, down the hall; no
way IтАЩm going back in there again.

Mr. Teleomara is having just as much fun as Mr. Beasley does with
his mice.

тАЬHey, wait up!тАЭ Jeremy catches up to me as I duck out the fire door at
the end of the hall. тАЬAre you okay?тАЭ His voice is worried, kind of this
off-orange.