3 Family Hug

Chapter 3 FAMILY HUG "Coke!" Pep shouted. "Wake up!" "I don't want to die!" Coke shouted. "I don't want to die!" "You're not gonna die!" his sister insisted. Coke looked around. He was no longer on a bridge. He was sitting on the bench in the RV park across the street from Graceland, just as he had been before he nodded off. "Huh? What? You're alive!" "You must have been having a bad dream," Pep told him. "How could you possibly fall asleep at a time like this? You were snoring and shouting and slobbering all over me." Coke shook his head and snapped out of it. He could see and smell the smoldering ruins of the RV, and he instantly remembered

第三章家人拥抱“可乐！”Pep喊道。 “醒来!”“我不想死！”可口可乐喊道。 “我不想死！”“你不会死的！”他姐姐坚持说。 可口可乐环顾四周。他已经不在桥上了。 他坐在雅园街对面房车停车场的长椅上，就像他睡着之前一样。 “嗯?怎么啦？你还活着!”“你一定是做了一个噩梦，”佩普告诉他。 “你怎么可能在这种时候睡着呢？” 你在我身上打呼噜、大喊大叫、流口水。” 可口可乐摇了摇头，猛地醒了过来。 他能看到并闻到房车的废墟在冒烟，他立刻记起来了

everything that had happened. "Aunt Judy," he whispered. "She's dead." "We killed her," Pep said, choking back tears. "I'm responsible for the death of another human being." "She killed herself," Coke said quietly. "We had nothing to do with it." It certainly wasn't their fault, but even so the twins had played a part in the accident. And it was their own aunt who was the victim. This was after they had already been involved in another accidental death back in Washington, when Archie Clone tried to drop them on the Washington Monument. They were beginning to think they were not entirely innocent in these tragedies. And bad news, it is said, comes in threes. "What do you think happened to her?" Pep asked. "I mean, why did she go crazy like that?" "Who knows?" Coke replied. "She was in love with Dr. Warsaw. I guess she would do anything for him."

发生的一切。 “朱迪姨妈，”他低声说。 “她死了。”“我们杀了她，”佩普强忍着眼泪说。 “我要为另一个人的死负责” “她自杀了，”科克平静地说。 “我们与此事毫无关系。” 这当然不是他们的错，但即便如此，这对双胞胎也在事故中起了一定作用。 受害者是他们自己的姨妈。 在此之前，他们已经在华盛顿发生了另一起意外死亡事件，当时阿奇·克隆试图把他们扔到华盛顿纪念碑上。 他们开始认为，在这些悲剧中，他们并非完全无辜。 据说，坏消息总是接踵而来。 “你觉得她出了什么事？”Pep问道。 “我是说，她为什么会那样发疯？”“谁知道呢?”可口可乐答道。 “她爱上了华沙医生。 我想她会为他做任何事。”

The police had not arrived on the scene yet. There was nothing left of the RV, except for the charred remains of the vehicle's chassis. A crowd of gawkers had gathered around to watch it melt and take cell phone pictures of the carnage. This was the most exciting thing to happen around Graceland since the days when Elvis—the real Elvis—used to live there. "Somebody was probably smoking in bed," a lady said. "Coulda been a propane tank," said a man in overalls. "I never trust them things." Only Coke and Pep knew what really happened. Pep covered her nose to avoid inhaling the noxious fumes, and scanned the crowd. There were several suspicious-looking characters walking around, but at least none of them looked like Mrs. Higgins, Dr. Warsaw, or the bowler dudes. "What do we tell Mom and Dad?" Pep asked her brother. "I don't know," Coke replied. "But we can't

警察还没有到现场。 房车什么都没留下，只剩下烧焦的底盘。 一群看热闹的人聚集在周围，看着它融化，用手机拍下这场大屠杀。 这是自从猫王——真正的猫王——曾经住在雅园以来发生的最令人兴奋的事情。 “可能有人在床上抽烟，”一位女士说。 “可能是一个丙烷罐，”一个穿工作服的人说。 “我从来不相信这些东西。” 只有可口可乐和佩普知道到底发生了什么。 佩普捂住鼻子，以免吸入有毒气体，然后扫视人群。 有几个形迹可疑的人物走来走去，但至少没有一个人看起来像希金斯夫人。 华沙，或者那些打保龄球的家伙。 “我们怎么跟爸爸妈妈说？”佩普问她的哥哥。 “我不知道，”可口可乐回答。 “但是我们不能

tell Mom about Aunt Judy. Knowing that her sister was an assassin would be too painful." Soon their parents returned from their tour of Graceland. "What's that smell?" Dr. McDonald asked Coke and Pep as he walked through the gate at the Graceland RV Park & Campground. "It smells like burning tires." Yes—burning tires, a burning engine, a burning transmission, a burning radiator, and every other part of an RV that can burn. When Dr. and Mrs. McDonald realized which RV it was, they stopped in their tracks. "Honey, is that where we parked our...," Mrs. McDonald said. "I'd better call the insurance company," said Dr. McDonald. It had been a good vehicle, all in all. It took them over four thousand miles without any problems. It never needed any serious maintenance. But now all that was left was a pile of twisted metal.

告诉妈妈朱迪阿姨的事。知道她妹妹是个刺客，她会很痛苦的。” 不久，他们的父母从雅园回来了。 “那是什么味道？”麦克唐纳博士在穿过雅园房车公园和露营地的大门时问可乐和佩普。 “闻起来像燃烧的轮胎。” 是的，燃烧的轮胎，燃烧的引擎，燃烧的变速器，燃烧的散热器，以及房车中所有可能燃烧的部件。 当麦克唐纳医生和夫人意识到那是哪辆房车时，他们停下了脚步。 “亲爱的，我们把车停在那里吗？”麦克唐纳太太说。 “我最好给保险公司打个电话。” 麦当劳。总的来说，这是一辆好车。 他们开了四千多英里，没有出任何问题。 它从不需要任何严重的维护。 但现在只剩下一堆扭曲的金属。

"I can't believe it," Mrs. McDonald said, stunned. She repeated it over and over again, as if that would change what had happened. "Everything's gone." "It's all my fault," Coke admitted. "I'm really sorry." "You blew up the RV?" his mother asked. "Not exactly," Pep explained. "It's like this," Coke said, and then he proceeded to tell his parents the whole story. He explained how they met Evil Elvis back in New Bern, North Carolina, and how The King had terrorized Pep at the Birthplace of Pepsi and almost shredded him at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. He told his parents how Evil Elvis had pulled a gun on them at the grave site of Elvis, and how he chased them into the RV, grabbed the backpack filled with explosives, and accidentally ignited it and detonated the fireworks inside. Dr. McDonald took a long look into Coke's eyes, as if he was trying to peer inside his son's

“我简直不敢相信，”麦克唐纳太太目瞪口呆地说。 她一遍又一遍地重复着，好像这样就能改变已经发生的事情。 “一切都消失了。”“这都是我的错，”可口可乐承认。 “我真的很抱歉。”“你把房车炸掉了？”他妈妈问。 “不完全是，”佩普解释说。 “是这样的，”科克说，然后他开始把整个故事告诉他的父母。 他解释了他们是如何在北卡罗来纳州的新伯尔尼遇到“邪恶的猫王”，以及“猫王”是如何在百事诞生地恐吓佩普，并在亚特兰大的可口可乐世界差点把他撕碎的。 他告诉他的父母，邪恶的埃尔维斯是如何在埃尔维斯的墓地用枪指着他们的，以及他如何追赶他们进入房车，抓起装满炸药的背包，不小心点燃了背包，引爆了里面的烟花。 麦克唐纳医生盯着科克的眼睛看了很久，好像他想窥视儿子的眼睛

soul. Mrs. McDonald just shook her head. Coke fully expected to be grounded for the rest of his life, if not longer. He deserved it. Instead, Dr. McDonald leaned back his head and burst out laughing. "Oh man, that is a great story!" he said, clapping each of the twins on the back. "If only I had your imagination. It makes me wish I was a kid again." "You're not mad?" Pep asked. "Mad?" said Dr. McDonald, pulling the twins close to him. "How could I be mad at you two? It wasn't your fault. The RV must have spontaneously combusted. It had a full tank of gas. One little spark from somebody's campfire or cigarette could have set it off." "I never trusted that thing," said Mrs. McDonald. "You read about crazy things like this happening all the time, but you just assume they'll never happen to you. And then, boom, it happens to you. It was just bad luck. Luckily, we paid for the insurance."

的灵魂。麦克唐纳夫人只是摇了摇头。 可口可乐完全有可能被禁足一辈子，甚至更久。 他活该。相反,博士。 麦克唐纳向后仰着头，突然大笑起来。 “哦，天哪，这真是一个伟大的故事！”他拍拍双胞胎的后背说。 “要是我有你的想象力就好了。 这让我希望我能再次成为一个孩子。” “你没疯吧？”Pep问道。 “疯了？”麦克唐纳医生说着，把双胞胎拉到他身边。 “我怎么会生你们俩的气呢？” 这不是你的错。房车一定是自燃了。 它的油箱是满的。 别人营火或香烟的一个小火花就可能引起火灾。” “我从来不相信那东西，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “你总是读到这种疯狂的事情发生，但你只是认为它们永远不会发生在你身上。 然后，砰，这就发生在你身上了。 只是运气不好。幸运的是，我们付了保险。”