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1、?all i ever wanted was for juli baker to leave me alone. it all began in the summer of , before the start of second grade. here we are.?what do you guys think?i like this place. ?its cool.uh, what color is my room?just you wait. lets see whats inside.why dont, uh, you and i go help unload the vanand
2、 the womenfolk here can get in the kitchen and start setting up. okay, dad. ? ?hi, im juli baker.hey, hey, what are you doing?dont you want some help? no.theres some valuable things in there. how about this one?no, no, no. run home.your mothers probably wondering where you are. oh, no, my mom knows
3、where i am.she said its fine.it didnt take long to realize this girl could not take a hint. its crowded in here with three people.i dont mind. ?of any kind.you wanna push this one together? ?bryce, isnt it time for you to go help your mother?oh, yeah.i mean, nothing would stop her. i was about to te
4、ll her to get lost when the weirdest thing happened.i couldnt believe it.there i was holding hands with this strange girl.?how did i get into this mess?well, hello.i see youve met my sonfinally, i did the only manly thing available when youre years old. however, my troubles were far from over.the mi
5、nute i walked into miss yelsons classroom?bryce?youre here.it was clear: school would not be a sanctuary. ?hey, bryce, wheres your girlfriend?i was branded for life. ?hey, bryce, why dont you ask her to marry you?bryce and juli sitting in a treek-l-s-s-l-n-gmy first year in town was a disaster.look
6、at them.and the next three werent much better. but finally, in the sixth grade, i took action.i hatched the plan.sherry. sherry, wait up. hi, bryce.heh.?i asked out sherry stalls.i was wondering if you wanted to goto full appreciate the brilliance of this plan?you have to understand that juli hated
7、sherry stallsthough i never understood why. sherry was nice, friendly and she had a lot of hair. at first, my mother wouldnt let me get my ears pierced, but i begged the idea was that sherry would eat with me maybe wed walk around together, and hopefully juli would lose interest.but i still cant get
8、 the hoops till im .oh, thats a shame.so melanie wanted to get her ears pierced,but of course her mother said no.things were unfolding quite nicely.?what are you doing for your science project?that is, until my supposed best friend, garrett einbindertook an interest in sherry himself.i was thinking
9、of showing how split ends react with different hair conditioners.thats fascinating. loyalty gave way to desire and garrett, the turncoattold sherry what i was up to.jerk.she didnt take it well.word got back to juli, and pretty soon she started up with the goo-goo eyes again.only this time it was wor
10、se.she started sniffing me. thats right, sniffing me.?what was that all about?my only consolation was that next year would be different.junior high, bigger school. maybe wed be in different classes and it would finally, finally be over. ? the first day i met bryce loski, i flipped.it was those eyes,
11、 something in those dazzling eyes.?you wanna push this one together?his family had just moved into the neighborhoodand id gone over to help them. id been in the van all of two minutes when his dad sent him off to help his mom.i could see he didnt wanna go. so i chased after him to see if we could pl
12、ay a little before he got trapped inside.the next thing i know, hes holding my handand looking right into my eyes. my heart stopped.?was this it?would this be my first kiss? but then his mother came out.well, hello. i went to bed that night thinking of the kiss that might have been. i mean, it was c
13、lear he had feelings for me, but he was just too shy to show them.my mother said boys were like that. so i decided to help him out.?bryce?youre here.i would give him plenty of opportunity to get over his shyness. by the sixth grade, id learned to control myself.?then sherry stalls entered the pictur
14、e.?sherry stalls was nothing but a whiny, gossipy, backstabbing flirt.all hair and no substance.and there she was holding hands with bryce.my bryce.the one who was walking around with my first kiss. my solution was to ignore her.i knew a boy of bryces caliberwould eventually see through a shallow co
15、nniver like sherry stalls. it took all of a week.they broke up at recess.she didnt take it well. now that bryce was out of sherrys evil clutches, he started being nicer to me. hi, juli.hi, bryce.he was so shy and so cuteand his hair, it smelled like watermelon.i couldnt get enough of it.i spent the
16、whole year secretly sniffing watermelonand wondering if i was ever going to get my kiss. seventh grade brought changes, all right.but the biggest one didnt happen at school.it happened at home.my grandfather came to live with us. mom said he stared like that because he missed grandma. that was not s
17、omething grandpa would ever talk about with me. as a matter of fact, he never talked about much of anything with me. that is, until juli appeared in the local newspaper. ?oh, bryce.may i speak with you?what? have a seat, son.?tell me about your friend juli baker.juli.shes not exactly my friend.?oh.w
18、hys that?why do you wanna know?now, juli baker did not wind up in the mayfield timesfor being an eighth-grade einstein.no, she got front-page coverage because she refused to climb out of a sycamore tree.?juli baker and that stupid sycamore tree.she always thought it was gods gift to our little corne
19、r of the universe. ?hey, bryce. no, thanks. bryce.its fun. you can see everything.i cant.my dad needs me to help him fixa thing.thats all i needed.?climb up a tree with juli baker.id be dragged right back into the second grade.bryce and juli sitting in a tree.why dont you just make me eat lima beans
20、 for the rest of my life. its three blocks away.two blocks.one block away. like thats valuable information.i hate it when she does that.i like to think theres at least a chance the bus wont show. ?i think the tree looks particularly beautiful in this light.dont you? if by beautiful you mean unbeliev
21、ably ugly, then, yes, i would agree. youre just visually challenged.i feel sorry for you.?visually challenged?visually challenged? this from the girl who lived in a house ?that was the joke of the neighborhood? they had bushes growing over windows and weeds all over the place. it bugged my dad bigti
22、me. oh, there he is. the bricklayer who thinks hes a painter. that trucks not ugly enough in real life?hes gotta make a painting of it?no, he does landscapes.sells them at the county fair.people say theyre beautiful.?landscapes?let me tell you something.the world would have more beauty in itif hed d
23、o a little landscaping on that piece of crap he calls a yard. i feel bad for his wife.she married a dreamer. because of that, one of the two of them will always be unhappy.a painting is more than the sum of its parts. a cow by itself is just a cow. a meadow by itself is just grass, flowers. and the
24、sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light. but you put them all together and it can be magic.the higher i got, the more amazed i was by the view.some days the sunsets would be purple and pink. and some days they were a blazing orange setting fire to the clouds on the horizon. it was duri
25、ng one of those sunsets that my fathers idea of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts moved from my head to my heart.:the first day i met bryce loski, i flipped. it was those eyes, something in those dazzling eyes.the next thing i know, hes holding my hand and looking right into my eyes.
26、 my heart stopped. was this it? would this be my first kiss?sherry stalls was nothing but a whiny, gossipy, backstabbing flirt. all hair and no substance. and there she was holding hands with bryce. my bryce. the one who was walking around with my first kiss.- and shes been stalking me since the sec
27、ond grade.- well, a girl like that doesnt live next door to everyone.- - ones character is set at an early age. id hate to see you swim out so far you cant swim back.the way she talked about what it felt like to be up in that tree to be held above the earth, brushed by the wind. who in junior high t
28、alks like that? this weird feeling started taking over in the pit of my stomach and i didnt like it.the apple doesnt fall far from the tree. a painting is more than the sum of its parts. a cow by itself is just a cow. a meadow by itself is just grass, flowers. and the sun peeking through the trees i
29、s just a beam of light. but you put them all together and it can be magic.the higher i got, the more amazed i was by the view.some days the sunsets would be purple and pink. and some days they were a blazing orange setting fire to the clouds on the horizon. it was during one of those sunsets that my fathers idea of the whole being greate
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