Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Exclusive exclusive (n) a story that is reported by only one newspaper because that newspaper is the only one with the information Jessie walked home alone that afternoon. It was hard work being around other people, particularly kids in her grade. There were so many things to figure out. She had to watch their faces closely and listen hard to the way they talked. Did their eyes open wide? Did they look down at the ground? Did they whisper? Or get loud? It was like trying to solve a math problem that never ended. Take, for example, what had happened on the playground after lunch. After promising Evan to find out who drew

独家的；独家的；独家的；独家的；独家的；因为只有那家报纸报道了这个消息，杰西那天下午独自走回家。 和别人在一起很不容易，尤其是和她同年级的孩子。 有太多事情要弄清楚。 她不得不仔细观察他们的脸，仔细听他们说话的方式。 他们的眼睛睁得很大吗？他们低头看地面了吗？ 他们在低语吗？或者声音太大？ 这就像试图解决一个永远不会结束的数学问题。 以午饭后在操场上发生的事情为例。 答应埃文找出是谁抽的

the heart on the bathroom wall, Jessie had wandered outside in search of Megan. She found her at the swings, but when Jessie came close, Megan walked away. Jessie tried to follow her, but Megan kept moving, first to the monkey bars and then the slide and then the picnic tables. Finally, Salley came up to Jessie and said, "Megan told me to tell you that she doesn't want to talk to you right now because she's really mad and she doesn't want to say something she'll regret later." "Why is she mad?" asked Jessie. "I just asked a question." Salley shook her head and said, "You're not supposed to ask about stuff like that. Not out loud where everyone can hear you. No one says that stuff out loud. Obviously. You only talk about it late at night at a slumber party after all the lights are out and everyone's half asleep." But Jessie had never been to a slumber party,

在浴室墙上的心脏上，杰西一直在外面寻找梅根。 她在荡秋千时发现了她，但当杰西走近时，梅根走开了。 杰西想跟着她，但梅根一直在动，先是去了单杠，然后是滑梯，然后是野餐桌。 最后，莎莉走到杰西面前说：“梅根让我告诉你，她现在不想和你说话，因为她真的很生气，她不想说些以后会后悔的话。” “她为什么生气？”杰西问。 “我只是问了一个问题。” 莎莉摇了摇头，说：“你不应该问这种事。 不要大声说出来，这样大家都能听到。 没人会大声说出来。 很明显。你只会在深夜的睡衣派对上谈论它，那时所有的灯都灭了，每个人都半睡半醒。” 但杰西从没参加过睡衣派对，

so she didn't know about that. "Why? Is it some kind of secret?" Salley looked at her sideways, clearly puzzled. "Well, yeah. That's why everyone's so interested. Everyone wants to know who likes who." "Everyone?" said Jessie. "Does everyone like someone?" "Pretty much," said Salley. "I mean, it's fourth grade. We're not little kids anymore." But Jessie didn't understand what it meant to like someone in that way. And when she tried to smile and wave at Megan from across the playground—which she knew was the right way to tell someone "I want to be friends with you"— Megan wouldn't look at her. Walking home after school, Jessie got to thinking. If what Salley said was true—that everyone liked someone and it was all a big secret—then here was a hot topic that 4-O was interested in. She would need to collect data, of course. In just four days! But when she did, she

所以她不知道这件事。 “为什么?这是什么秘密吗？”莎莉斜眼看着她，显然很困惑。 “嗯,是的。所以大家才这么感兴趣。 每个人都想知道谁喜欢谁。” “每个人？”杰西说。“每个人都喜欢某个人吗？”“差不多，”莎莉说。 “我是说，这是四年级。 我们不再是小孩子了。” 但杰西不明白这样喜欢一个人意味着什么。 当她试图在操场对面向梅根微笑和挥手时——她知道这是告诉别人“我想和你做朋友”的正确方式——梅根不看她。 放学回家的路上，杰西开始思考。 如果莎莉说的是真的——每个人都喜欢某个人，这是一个很大的秘密——那么这就是一个4- 0感兴趣的热门话题。 当然，她需要收集数据。 仅仅四天！但当她这么做的时候，她

would have a newspaper article that everyone would want to read. Jessie imagined the headline of her front-page story: Who Likes Who—A 4-O Forum Exclusive!

在报纸上发表一篇人人都想读的文章。 杰西想象着她的头版新闻的标题：谁喜欢谁-一个4- 0论坛独家！