#531 The Water Cycle- Lucia Perillo
A crazy man abducts his own daughter by gunpoint, takes her
right from her classroom. She is gone seventeen days; it is a national story.
Now she is returned and can barely walk down the street without someone recognizing
her and pointing:
“She’s the ghost girl, the one from the TV.”
Aurora is the biggest story to hit this town, and the other
girls in her class know that everything has changed. They are told not to treat
Aurora any different, but in doing so, they are in fact, treating her
different. What starts out as deference and will turn to pity and eventually
resentment. No matter the reason, school children hate someone who gets too
much attention.
“New clothes, new barrettes, new Hello Kitty plastic purse.
New way of looking older when she looked out from her bangs. New dance steps
from MTV new way of putting your hands on your hips and jerking them forward
like you were in the middle of a car crash. New stupid world new stupid us. She
ruled our lives and was our ruin.”
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