بگو سیب و بمیر فصل 8

chapter8

What’s going on here? Greg wondered.

He brought the photo up close to his face.

This isn’t right, he thought. How can this be?

The blue Taurus station wagon in the photo was a mess. It looked as if it had been in a terrible accident. The windshield was shattered. Metal was twisted and bent. The door on the driver’s side was caved in.

The car appeared totaled!

“This is impossible!” Greg uttered aloud.

“Greg, where are you?” his mother called. “We’re all hungry, and you’re keeping us waiting.”

“Sorry,” he answered, unable to take his eyes off the snapshot. “Coming.”

He shoved the photo into his top dresser drawer and made his way downstairs. The image of the totaled car burned in his mind.

Just to make sure, he crossed the living room and peeked out of the front window to the driveway.

There stood the station wagon, sparkling in the glow of the setting sun. Shiny and perfect.

He turned and walked into the dining room, where his brother and his parents were already seated. “The new wagon is awesome, Dad,” Greg said, trying to shake the snapshot’s image from his thoughts.

But he kept seeing the twisted metal, the caved-in driver’s door, the shattered windshield.

“After dinner,” Greg’s dad announced happily, “I’m taking you all for a drive in the new car!”