（外文电子版资料）Suzy McKee Charnas - Boobs.pdf

BOOBS Suzy Mckee Charnas The thing is, its like your brain wants to go on thinking about the mi- serable history mid-term you have to take tomorrow, but your body takes over. And what a body! You can see in the dark and run like the wind and leap parked cars in a single bound. Of course you pay for it next morning (but its worth it). I always wake up sti and sore, with dirty hands and feet and face, and I have to jump in the shower fast so Hilda wont see me like that. Not that she would know what it was about, but why take chances? So I pretend its the other thing thats bothering me. So she goes, Come on, sweetie, everybody gets cramps, thats no reason to go around moaning and groaning. What are you doing, trying to get out of school just because youve got your period? If I didnt like Hilda, which I do even though she is only a stepmother instead of my real mother, I would show her something that would keep me out of school forever, and its not fake, either. But there are plenty of people Id rather show that to. I already showed that dork Billy Linden. Hey, Boobs! he goes, in the hall right outside Homeroom. A lot of kids laughed, naturally, though Rita Frye called him an asshole. Billy is the one that started it, sort of, because he always started every- thing, him with his big mouth. At the beginning of term, he came barreling down on me hollering, Hey, look at Bornstein, something musta happened to her over the summer! What happened, Bornstein? Hey, everybody, look at Boobs Bornstein! He made a grab at my chest, and I socked him in the shoulder, and he punched me in the face, which made me dizzy and shocked and made me cry, too, in front of everybody. I mean, I always used to wrestle and ght with the boys, being that I was strong for a girl. All of a sudden it was dierent. He hit me hard, to really hurt, and t