Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Revenge revenge (revenge), n. The act of causing pain or harm to another person because that person has injured you in some way. Evan crushed the note in his hand. Suddenly he didn't feel like laughing and joking around with his friends. Suddenly he wanted to punch his fist through the wall. Here's why: Evan was more certain than ever that Scott had stolen money from him. It had happened just last week. Right in the middle of that heat wave. Right in the middle of the lemonade war with Jessie. They'd all been at Jack's house. All the guys—Paul and Ryan and Kevin and Malik and Scott—were

第二章复仇（复仇），名词。 给别人造成痛苦或伤害的行为，因为那个人以某种方式伤害了你。 埃文把纸条揉在手里。 突然，他不想和朋友们谈笑风生了。 突然，他想用拳头把墙打穿。 原因如下：埃文比以往任何时候都更加确信斯科特偷了他的钱。 这件事上星期才发生。 就在热浪袭来的时候。 就在和杰西的柠檬水大战中。 他们都去过杰克家。 所有的人——保罗、瑞安、凯文、马利克和斯科特——都是

playing pool basketball. Evan had $208 in the pocket of his shorts. Two hundred and eight dollars! It was more money than he'd ever seen in his whole life. He'd left his shorts folded on the bed in Jack's bedroom while they all went swimming. But then Scott got out of the pool to go to the bathroom. And a minute later, he came running out of the house, saying he had to go home right away. And when Evan went back in the house to get dressed, the money was gone. It had been the worst feeling in Evan's entire life. Once upon a time, about a million years ago, Scott and Evan had been friends. Sort of. Evan used to play at Scott's house a lot, and once in a while Scott would play at Evan's, although Scott said his house was better because there was more stuff to do. One time, Evan even went overnight to Scott's beach house on the Cape. The Spencers had plenty of money because Scott's mom was a lawyer at one of the biggest law offices downtown and his dad ran a financial consulting business out of their home.

打台球。埃文的短裤口袋里有8块钱。 二百八美元！这是他一生中从未见过的钱。 他们一起去游泳时，他把短裤叠在杰克卧室的床上。 但后来斯科特从游泳池出来上厕所了。 一分钟后，他从房子里跑出来，说他必须马上回家。 当埃文回到屋里换衣服时，钱不见了。 这是埃文一生中最糟糕的感觉。 很久以前，大约一百万年前，斯科特和埃文是朋友。 排序的。埃文过去经常在斯科特家玩，斯科特偶尔也会在埃文家玩，尽管斯科特说他的家更好，因为那里有更多的事情可做。 有一次，埃文甚至去斯科特在好望角的海滨别墅过夜。 斯宾塞一家很有钱，因为斯科特的母亲是市中心最大的律师事务所之一的律师，他的父亲在家里经营一家金融咨询公司。

But things had cooled off since then. Way off. The truth was, Scott was kind of a pain to be around. The way he bragged, the way he cheated at games, even stupid little games like Go Fish or Operation. Who cared about winning a game like Go Fish? And the way he kept things locked up—like the snacks at his house! He kept Yodels and Ring Dings locked in a metal file cabinet in his basement. If Evan thought about it, he had to admit that he really couldn't stand the kid. And now he had a reason to hate him. "Morning work, Evan," said Mrs. Overton, tapping the work sheet on his desk as she walked by. Evan turned back to his own desk and studied the Daily Double math problem in front of him. All the other kids in the class were working on the same problem, and Evan could tell that some of them had already finished. Normally this would have made him tense, but this morning, he couldn't even concentrate enough on the problem to get that uh-oh feeling inside of him. I'd get an Xbox. The new one. That's what Scott

但从那以后，事情就冷却下来了。 路要走。事实是，和斯科特在一起有点麻烦。 他吹牛的样子，他在游戏中作弊的样子，甚至是像钓鱼或操作这样愚蠢的小游戏。 谁在乎赢得像《Go Fish》这样的游戏？ 还有他把东西锁起来的方式——比如他家里的零食！他把Yodels和Ring Dings锁在地下室的一个金属文件柜里。 如果埃文仔细想想，他不得不承认他真的无法忍受这个孩子。 现在他有理由恨他了。 “早上的工作，埃文，”奥弗顿夫人说，她走过时敲了敲他桌子上的工作单。 埃文转身回到自己的书桌前，开始研究他面前的每日双倍数学题。 班上所有的孩子都在做同样的问题，埃文看得出来有些人已经做完了。 通常情况下，这会让他紧张，但今天早上，他甚至无法集中精力解决问题，以至于内心产生了那种糟糕的感觉。 我会买个Xbox。新的那个。 斯科特就是这样

had said last week, just before the money disappeared from Evan's shorts. They were trying to figure out how much money they would make from a lemon ade stand and what they would buy if they got rich. Suddenly rich. And now he had an Xbox. Scott Spencer had a 20/20, and Evan was sure he'd bought it with the money he'd stolen from Evan's pocket. Evan felt like lifting his head and howling. Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh. A sound like a rattlesnake ready to strike shimmied through the classroom. Evan looked up. Mrs. Overton was shaking the big African shekere she used to get everyone's attention. The beads draped around the hollowed-out gourd made a rustling, rattling sound. "Okay, Paper Collectors," said Mrs. Overton, "please gather the Daily Doubles and put them on my desk." Every week, the students in 4–0 were assigned a job. Some of the jobs were serious, like Paper Collector and Equipment Manager and Attendance Monitor, and some of them were silly,

就在埃文短裤里的钱消失之前，他说。 他们想弄清楚一个柠檬汽水摊能赚多少钱，如果他们有钱了，他们会买什么。 突然富有。现在他有了一台Xbox。 斯科特·斯宾塞有一张20/20的赌单，埃文确信他用从埃文口袋里偷来的钱买的。 埃文真想抬起头来嚎叫。 Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh。教室里传来响尾蛇准备攻击的声音。 埃文抬起头来。奥弗顿太太摇晃着她用来吸引大家注意的那只大非洲谢克尔。 挂在镂空葫芦上的珠子发出窸窸窣窣的声音。 “好了，收报纸的，”奥弗顿太太说，“请把《每日加倍》收起来放在我的桌子上。” 每个星期，4-0年级的学生都被分配了一份工作。 有些工作很严肃，比如收纸员、设备管理员和考勤班长，有些工作很无聊，

like Chicken Dresser (the person who chose an outfit for the rubber chicken that sat on Mrs. Overton's desk) and Goofy Face Maker (the person who made a face that all the kids in 4–0 had to copy at the end of the day on Friday). "Everyone else, come over to the rug for Morning Meeting." Evan looked back down at the blank math problem in front of him. The only thing he'd written on his page was his name. He handed the paper to Sarah Monroe, then walked over to the rug in the corner and dropped onto the floor, his back up against the bookcase. "Evan, sit up, please," said Mrs. Overton, smiling at him. "No slouching in the circle." Evan crossed his legs and sat up properly. First, they went around the circle and every person had to say hello to the person on the right and the person on the left, but in a different way. When it was his turn, Evan said "konichiwa" to Adam, who was sitting next to him. Evan liked saying the Japanese word. It made him feel like he was kicking

比如“小鸡装扮师”（给奥弗顿夫人桌子上的橡胶鸡选衣服的人）和“高飞脸制造者”（给4-0年级的所有孩子做了一张脸，让他们在周五放学时都要模仿）。 “其他人，到地毯这边来开早会。” 埃文低头看着面前空白的数学题。 他在纸上唯一写的就是他的名字。 他把报纸递给莎拉·门罗，然后走到角落的地毯旁，倒在地板上，背靠着书架。 “埃文，请坐起来，”奥弗顿太太对他微笑着说。 “不要在圈子里无精打采。” 埃文跷起二郎腿，坐了起来。 首先，他们绕着圈子走一圈，每个人都要向右边和左边的人打招呼，但方式不同。 轮到他的时候，埃文对坐在他旁边的亚当说了声“你好”。 埃文喜欢说日语。 这让他觉得自己在踢腿

a ball around inside his mouth. Jessie used sign language to say hello to Megan. Scott Spencer said "Whassup?" to Ryan, which made everyone in the class laugh. Everyone except Evan. Then Mrs. Overton turned to a fresh page on the Morning Board. A wild goose had landed on the playground yesterday morning, and that was the topic for discussion. Mrs. Overton wanted to know what the kids knew about geese in particular and migrating birds in general. So they took turns until every single one of them had written a fact on the easel. Evan wrote, Some birds fly for days. He was going to add when they migrate, but he was pretty sure he'd mess up the spelling of the word migrate, so he left off that part. When they'd finished talking about geese and migration, Mrs. Overton capped the Magic Markers and said, "Would anyone like to share something with the class before we go back to our desks?" About half the kids raised their hand, but no one's hand went up faster than Scott Spencer's.

一个球在他的嘴里打转。 杰西用手语跟梅根打招呼。 斯科特·斯宾塞对瑞恩说：“怎么了？”这让全班都笑了起来。 除了埃文。然后奥弗顿太太翻到晨报上新的一页。 昨天早上，一只大雁落在操场上，这是讨论的话题。 奥弗顿夫人想知道孩子们对鹅的了解，尤其是对候鸟的了解。 于是他们轮流练习，直到每个人都在画架上写下一个事实。 埃文写道，有些鸟能飞好几天。 他本想加上“迁徙”这个词，但他很确定自己会把“迁徙”这个词的拼写搞砸，所以他省略了这部分。 当他们讨论完鹅和迁徙时，奥弗顿夫人盖上魔笔，说：“在我们回到课桌前，有谁想和全班分享点什么吗？”大约有一半的孩子举起了手，但没有人的手比斯科特·斯宾塞的举起得更快。