Chapter 13

chapter thirteen I sit up. Squinting in the darkness, I see a figure, creeping across the room. I hear the door unlock, then watch the figure step out into the hall. In the dim light, I can make out that it's June. Hey, I just used "make out" and "June" in the same sentence. Go me! Anyway, what is she up to? I kick my way out of my jacket-blanket bed and tiptoe out into the hallway. June is pulling open a door and stepping into the stairwell. I know that stairwell. It leads to the roof. I follow her. The roof is well-lit by the moon. June is standing near the ledge. Next to her is a large plastic trash barrel.

第十三章我坐起来。 在黑暗中眯起眼睛，我看见一个人影，蹑手蹑脚地穿过房间。 我听见门被打开了，然后看着那个身影走到大厅里。 在昏暗的灯光下，我能辨认出现在是六月。 嘿，我刚把“亲热”和“琼”放在一个句子里了。 去我!不管怎样，她在干什么？ 我踢出我的夹克毛毯床，踮着脚尖走到走廊。 琼拉开一扇门，走进楼梯间。 我知道那个楼梯井。它通向屋顶。 我跟着她。屋顶被月光照得很亮。 琼站在岩架附近。 她旁边是一个大塑料垃圾桶。

Hey, June. June spins, startled. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." "You didn't," she says. That's a lie. "What are you doing up here? It's four in the morning." June reaches into the trash bin and pulls out a tennis ball. I peek inside the barrel. It's filled with hundreds of tennis balls. Other empty trash barrels are scattered across the roof. "This is how I let out frustration," June says, hurling a tennis ball toward the crowd of zombies below. The tennis ball nails a zombie— our gym teacher, Mr. Perkis—in the back.

嘿,6月。六月旋转着，吓了一跳。 “对不起。我不是故意吓唬你的。” “你没有，”她说。那是个谎言。 “你在这儿干什么？” 现在是凌晨四点。” 琼把手伸进垃圾桶，拿出一个网球。 我偷看了一下桶里。里面有几百个网球。 其他的空垃圾桶散落在屋顶上。 “这就是我发泄沮丧的方式，”琼说着，向下面的一群僵尸扔了一个网球。 网球从后面射中了一个僵尸——我们的体育老师，珀金斯先生。

"It's a game I play," June says. "Ten points for hitting a zombie in the head, five points for the body, twenty points if I call it. Like if I say, 'Jess Aronesty, in the head' and I actually hit Jess Aronesty in the head, that's twenty points." "Like my Feats of Apocalyptic Success! Are you copying me? Don't be a copycat, June," I say, grinning. June laughs. That makes my heart swell. Great, now I have a swollen heart. I hope the swelling stops before it kills me. I reach into the bin. "OK, I'm calling it. Mr. Winik, in the face," I say. I cock back my arm and fling the tennis ball. I miss Mr. Winik by about forty-six and a half feet. "Lame," June says as she reaches down into the barrel. "Lame and zero points."

“这是我玩的一个游戏，”琼说。 “打到僵尸头部得十分，打到身体得五分，打到的话得二十分。 比如，如果我说，‘杰西·阿伦尼斯，打在脑袋上’，而我真的打在了杰西·阿伦尼斯的脑袋上，那就得20分。” “就像我的《天启伟业》一样！”你在模仿我吗？ “别学别人，琼，”我笑着说。 6月笑着说。那使我的心膨胀。 太好了，现在我的心脏肿了。 我希望在我死之前消肿。 我把手伸进垃圾桶。“好吧，我叫它。 “威尼克先生，打你的脸，”我说。 我把胳膊向后一仰，把网球扔了出去。 我离威尼克先生大约有46英尺半的距离。 “太差劲了，”琼把手伸进桶里说。 “差劲，零分。”

So, how long have you been here, in the school? Since Ihis aLL Started. I left one time, to get food—but it was too scary out there. "I saw you," I say, "running inside, when it was happening. And you saw me." June nods. "Our eyeballs," I say, sounding very suave and European. "Our eyeballs shared a moment." June rolls her eyes in the cutest way possible. "You are weird, Jack. Annnyyyhoo, yeah, I ran to the newspaper office first. Oh, that reminds me! We were going to put one of your pictures in that issue. The one you took of band practice." "Ugh," I groan. "That pic was lamer than a one- legged zombie." June laughs softly, barely. "You just wanted to

你来这所学校多久了？ 自从这一切开始。我离开过一次，去找吃的，但外面太可怕了。 “事情发生的时候，”我说，“我看见你跑进去了。 你看见我了。”6月点了点头。 “我们的眼球，”我说，听起来很温和，很欧式。 “我们的眼睛分享了一个时刻。” 琼用最可爱的方式翻白眼。 “你真奇怪，杰克。没错，我先跑去报社了。 哦，这倒提醒了我！我们打算在那期杂志上登一张你的照片。 你在乐队练习时拍的那张。” “啊，”我呻吟道。“那张照片比一条腿的僵尸还烂。” 琼轻轻地笑着，勉强地笑着。 “你只是想这么做

take photos of adventure stuff, right?" I shrug. "I'm just an adventuring kind of guy." "Well, you got your chance now," she says with a sigh. I nod and sigh with her. "Anyway, yeah, I went inside. I thought I'd wait a little while and then the police would show up and my parents would come get me. Never happened. Zombies came, clawing at the door. I hid in the closet—didn't come out for two whole days. And when I did come out there was... just... some monster—big as a house! Eating people! And the other people, they were—well, you know." "Yep. I know. Undead." "So I locked doors and did my best to keep the things trapped downstairs, in the rear of the school. And now it's just me here." "What about your parents?" June gulps and grimaces, like it hurts to swallow. Maybe I shouldn't have asked. "I saw them on the fifth day," she says. "A big bus rolled by, pulled by a tank. There was a soldier on a microphone, saying anyone who was not a

拍冒险类的照片，对吧？”我耸耸肩。 “我只是一个喜欢冒险的人。” “好吧，你现在有机会了，”她叹了口气说。 我点点头，和她一起叹息。“不管怎样，是的，我进去了。 我想我可以等一会儿，然后警察就会出现，我父母就会来接我。 从来没有发生过。僵尸来了，用爪子抓着门。 我躲在壁橱里，整整两天没出来。 当我出来的时候… 只是…像房子一样大的怪物！吃人!而其他人，他们——嗯，你知道的。” “是的。我知道。不死。”“所以我锁上门，尽我所能把东西困在楼下，在学校的后面。 现在这里只有我一个人。” “那你父母呢？”琼大口咽着，做了个鬼脸，好像咽不下去似的。 也许我不该问的。 “我在第五天看到了他们，”她说。 “一辆由坦克拉着的大巴士开了过来。 麦克风上有个士兵说，只要不是

zombie should come with them. My parents were in the bus. They were looking out at the school. I banged my fists on the window and I screamed and I shouted until my throat was sore. But it worked. They saw me." "Wait—really? They saw you?" June nods. "My dad tried to run out. But the soldier wouldn't let him off the bus. And I couldn't go out there without the zombies getting me. Then the bus turned the corner, and they were gone. Just... gone." I pick at my hangnail, uncomfortable, not sure what to say. "At least they're safe, somewhere...." June shrugs. After a moment, she says, "Jack, I'm sorry I freaked at you guys before. But you see why I can't leave the school. My parents know I'm here. They're going to come for me. And I can't have you guys messing that up." "But, June, when your parents come back, everyone will come with them. No matter where you are, they'll find you. Even if you're, y'know, like, maybe, hanging out in my tree house..." June glares at me.

僵尸应该和他们一起去。 我的父母在公共汽车上。 他们向外看学校。 我用拳头捶着窗户，我尖叫着，直到喉咙疼。 但它奏效了。他们看到我了。” “Wait-really ?他们看见你了？”6月点了点头。 “我爸爸想跑出去。但是那个士兵不让他下车。 我一出去就会被僵尸抓住。 然后公共汽车拐了个弯，他们就不见了。 只是…一去不复返了。”我揪着我的倒钩，很不舒服，不知道该说什么。 “至少他们是安全的，在某个地方....” 6月耸了耸肩。过了一会儿，她说：“杰克，对不起，我刚才对你们发脾气了。 但你明白我为什么不能离开学校了吧。 我父母知道我在这里。他们会来找我的。 我不能让你们搞砸了。” “但是，琼，当你父母回来的时候，每个人都会和他们一起去的。 不管你在哪里，他们都会找到你。 即使你，你知道，就像，也许，在我的树屋里闲逛……” 琼怒视着我。