Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13 BOOM! Chukka chukka chukka... Michael opened his eyes with a start. How long have I been asleep? He lifted his head from his drool-soaked pillow and looked around. It was daylight outside, but many of the passengers around him were sleeping. DING! The red Fasten Seat Belt light flashed on above him. "No big deal." Justin yawned. "Just a little rough air. Might as well go back to sleep." Michael was happy to take the advice. He still felt exhausted. But before he could close his eyes again, he noticed that the overhead bin where his backpack had been placed had been flung open by the turbulence. "Oh no!" Michael gasped. "What?" asked Justin. Michael pointed at his backpack. The top was unzipped, and a crusty, scraggly squirrel tail was sticking out. Then the plane hit another pocket of rough air— and the bag slipped out and fell onto the back of the seat below!

第13章轰！咯咯咯咯咯… 迈克尔吓了一跳，睁开眼睛。 我睡了多久了？ 他从被口水浸湿的枕头上抬起头，环顾四周。 外面是白天，但他周围的许多乘客都在睡觉。 丁!系好安全带的红色指示灯在他上方闪烁。 “没什么大不了的。”贾斯汀打了个哈欠。 “只是一阵狂风。还是回去睡觉吧。” 迈克尔很高兴接受了这个建议。 他仍然感到筋疲力尽。但在他再次闭上眼睛之前，他注意到头顶上放背包的行李架被气流掀开了。 “哦,不!”迈克尔气喘吁吁地说。“什么？”贾斯廷问。 迈克尔指着他的背包。 上面的拉链打开了，一条粗糙的松鼠尾巴伸出来。 然后飞机撞上了另一个粗糙的空气袋——袋子滑了出来，掉在下面的座位上！

"Ahhhhh!" Michael whispered, fighting to hold back a scream. "Ahhhhh!" repeated Justin in a slightly louder whisper. A squirrel slid out of the bag and onto the head of a sleeping man! "AHHHHH!" Michael screamed, not in a whisper. "Shhhhh!" Justin urged. "You're gonna wake up your dad!" Michael looked across the aisle at his sleeping father. "I gotta get that squirrel!" he whispered to Justin. Michael looked up and down the aisle, checking for flight

“啊! ! !”迈克尔小声说，强忍着不叫出声来。 “啊——”贾斯廷稍微提高了一点声音，重复了一遍。 一只松鼠从袋子里滑了出来，爬到了一个睡觉的人的头上！“啊! ! !”迈克尔尖叫起来，声音一点也不轻。 “嘘!”贾斯汀敦促。“你会吵醒你爸爸的！”迈克尔望着过道对面睡着的父亲。 “我要抓住那只松鼠！”他小声对贾斯汀说。 迈克尔上下打量着过道，查看航班是否起飞

attendants. All clear. He unbuckled his belt quietly, stood up, and tiptoed forward. The salty rodent tail covered the nose and mouth of the sleeping man, rising and falling slowly with his breathing. Yuck! Michael thought. As cool as he thought the squirrels were, he would not like one on his face! As he reached forward to grab it, a voice called out, "Young man! You need to remain in your seat!" It was the flight attendant who had stowed his backpack.

服务员。所有清晰。他悄悄地解开腰带，站起来，踮着脚尖向前走。 咸咸的啮齿动物尾巴盖住了睡着的人的鼻子和嘴巴，随着他的呼吸慢慢地起起落落。 讨厌的东西!迈克尔认为。虽然他认为松鼠很酷，但他不喜欢松鼠在他脸上！当他伸手去抓它时，一个声音喊道：“年轻人！你必须待在座位上！”是空服员帮他收好背包的。

Without looking at her, Michael grabbed the squirrel off the sleeping man's face, stuffed it back in his backpack, crammed the bag back into the overhead bin, and slammed the bin shut. He looked over to see the flight attendant standing in the aisle near the front of the plane, motioning to a dark-haired man seated next to her. The man turned to look at Michael. He was wearing a suit and sunglasses and looked very official. Who wears a suit and sunglasses on a 12-hour flight? Michael thought.

迈克尔没有看她一眼，从熟睡的男人脸上抓起松鼠，把它塞回背包里，又把背包塞进头顶的行李架里，砰地关上了行李架。 他看了看，看到空乘站在靠近飞机前部的过道上，向坐在她旁边的一个黑发男子示意。 那人转过身来看着迈克尔。 他穿着西装，戴着太阳镜，看起来很正式。 谁会在12小时的飞行中穿西装戴墨镜？ 迈克尔认为。

"Sorry!" he called out as he scrambled back to his seat. "Everything all right?" Dr. Gomez said sleepily as Michael sat back down and buckled up. "Yeah. Everything's fine," Michael said. He peeked around the front of his seat to see the flight attendant giving him the stink eye as the man in the suit and sunglasses looked on with a steely gaze.

“对不起！”他一边喊一边爬回座位。 “一切都好吧？”博士。 戈麦斯睡眼惺忪地说，迈克尔坐回座位，系好安全带。 “是的。一切都很好，”迈克尔说。 他在座位前面偷看了一下，看到空乘人员向他投去了厌恶的目光，而那个穿着西装、戴着太阳镜的男人则用冷酷的目光看着他。