Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Snooping snooping (v.) investigating or searching in a secretive way to uncover private information It had been an accident. Really and truly. The only reason Jessie had gone into Evan's room in the first place was that she'd needed a piece of paper. That's all. She wasn't looking for anything else. She wasn't snooping. She wasn't. And even though she wasn't supposed to go in Evan's room without asking, and she definitely wasn't allowed to look in his top desk drawer without permission, she was in a big hurry to count up the results of the survey. And Evan was all the way downstairs. And he'd been in such a bad mood when they'd walked in the front door

第十章窥探窥探以秘密的方式调查或搜索以发现私人信息这是一场意外。 真的，真的。杰西一开始走进埃文房间的唯一原因是她需要一张纸。 这是所有。她不是在找别的东西。 她没有窥探。她不是。 尽管她不应该在未经允许的情况下进入埃文的房间，而且她绝对不允许在未经允许的情况下查看他书桌最上面的抽屉，但她还是非常着急地计算调查结果。 埃文一直在楼下。 当他们走进前门的时候，他的心情非常糟糕

together. And she was in a big hurry. That was the thing. She didn't have time to follow all the rules. But when she grabbed a piece of paper out of Evan's desk drawer and turned to run back out the door—so fast it was as if she hadn't even broken the rule in the first place—she tripped over Evan's wastebasket, which crashed into the floor lamp, and the papers spilled all over the floor. They were like little animals escaping from their cage. The wastebasket was made of wire, just like a cage, and Jessie couldn't help imagining the papers shouting, "Free! We're free! At last, we're free!" "I'm okay! I just tripped!" she shouted so that Evan and their mother wouldn't come running upstairs to see what the noise was. She started to scoop up the crumpled-up pieces of paper, still thinking about the animals escaping from their cage, and then one of them really did look like a turtle. Look at that, she

在一起。她很着急。 事情就是这样。她没有时间遵守所有的规定。 但当她从埃文的抽屉里抓起一张纸，转身跑出门时——速度如此之快，就好像她根本没有违反规定一样——她被埃文的废纸篓绊倒了，废纸篓撞到了落地灯上，纸洒了一地。 他们就像从笼子里逃出来的小动物。 废纸篓是用铁丝做的，就像一个笼子，杰西忍不住想象着那些废纸篓在喊：“自由！我们是免费的!我们终于自由了！”“我很好!我刚才绊倒了！”她大声喊道，这样埃文和他们的妈妈就不会跑上楼去看是什么声音了。 她开始捡起那些揉成一团的纸，心里还想着那些从笼子里逃出来的动物，然后其中一只看起来真的很像一只乌龟。 看那个，她

thought. There was the shell and a leg and a head poking out. Jessie was good at noticing patterns and shapes, and this crumpled-up piece of paper definitely looked like a turtle. She picked up the piece of paper, tugged on the head, and then pushed on it to see if she could imitate the way a turtle pokes its head out of its shell and then pulls it in when it's threatened. And that's when the paper became uncrumpled and she saw a few of the words on the page. Words were meant to be read. Everyone knew that! You didn't write a word down on a piece of paper if you didn't expect someone to read it. Otherwise you would just leave that word in your head. So without really thinking and almost before she knew that she was doing it, Jessie uncrumpled the paper and spread it out in front of her. And then, when she got that feeling in her stomach—that tingle that told her she might

的想法。有壳，一条腿和一个头伸出来。 杰西很擅长注意图案和形状，这张皱巴巴的纸看起来绝对像一只乌龟。 她拿起那张纸，拉着它的头，然后推它，看她是否能模仿乌龟在受到威胁时把头探出壳，然后缩回壳的方式。 就在这时，纸变得平整了，她看到了纸上的几个字。 文字是用来读的。 每个人都知道！如果你不希望有人读，你就不会把一个字写在一张纸上。 否则你就会把这个词留在脑子里。 于是，杰西想都没想，几乎在她意识到自己在做什么之前，就把纸打开，摊开在她面前。 然后，当她有一种感觉在她的胃-刺痛告诉她，她可能

be doing something wrong—it was too late, because a question had popped into her mind. And once that happened, there was no stopping Jessie. She needed to know the answer to the question, just as she had needed to know the answers to all the other questions that had come up this year: Who stole the lemonade money? How did Scott Spencer buy an Xbox 20/20? Where did the New Year's Eve bell go? What was wrong with Maxwell? The questions were like math problems, and Jessie couldn't rest until the equation was solved.

做错了什么事——太晚了，因为一个问题突然出现在她的脑海里。 一旦发生这种事，杰西就无法阻止了。 她需要知道这个问题的答案，就像她需要知道今年出现的所有其他问题的答案一样：谁偷了柠檬水的钱？ 斯科特·斯宾塞是怎么买到Xbox 20/20的？ 除夕的钟声到哪里去了？ 麦克斯韦怎么了？ 这些问题就像数学题，杰西在解出方程式之前不能休息。

Who was pony girl? What did these words mean? Jessie heard a sound from downstairs. She

谁是小马女孩？这些话是什么意思？ 杰西听到楼下有声音。 她

wasn't sure what it was, but it reminded her that she was in Evan's room without having asked him for permission. So she scooped the balls of paper on the floor into the trash can, set the trash can upright, then ran out of Evan's room. Back in her own room with the door closed, she settled down at her desk and smoothed the wrinkled paper in front of her. A thought flickered through her mind: Am I stealing something by taking the paper? But no, that didn't make sense. The paper was trash, and you couldn't steal trash. Besides, Jessie carried the trash out of Evan's room every week. It was one of her household chores. What was the difference between carrying it out today and carrying it out on Saturday? Still, she opened her door and hung up the Locked sign, then closed her door again and slipped the paper into her top desk drawer. There was no time to think about trash or words or Evan. Right now, she had to tally up the

她不确定那是什么，但它提醒她，她在没有征得埃文同意的情况下就进入了他的房间。 于是她把地上的纸团舀进垃圾桶，把垃圾桶放直，然后跑出了埃文的房间。 回到自己的房间，关着门，她坐在书桌前，抚平面前皱巴巴的纸。 一个念头闪过她的脑海：我拿报纸是不是在偷什么？ 但是不，这没有意义。 报纸是垃圾，你不能偷垃圾。 此外，杰西每周都把垃圾从埃文的房间里端出去。 这是她的家务之一。 今天实施和周六实施有什么区别？ 尽管如此，她还是打开了门，挂上了上锁的牌子，然后又关上了门，把那张纸塞进了书桌最上面的抽屉里。 没有时间去想垃圾，言语，还有埃文。 现在，她得把