6 Click

CHAPTER 6 Click The blue paint had hit Aunt Laura's beautiful white wedding dress. Just below the waist, there was a big dot of blue, with some drips dripping down. It is like the way hot caramel drips down the sides of an ice-cream cone. If caramel came in electric blue, that is. For a second I couldn't even speak. "Oh no!" Penny said. "I'm sorry," I said, finding my voice. "I'm sorry, Aunt Laura. I didn't mean for this to

第六章 咔哒 蓝色颜料正好泼在了劳拉姨妈漂亮的白色婚纱上。 腰往下一点的位置，沾了好大一块蓝色污渍，还有几滴水印往下淌着。 就像热焦糖顺着甜筒边往下流的样子。 哦，得是那种电光蓝的焦糖才行。 有那么一秒钟我连话都说不出来了。 “哦不！” 佩妮叫道。 “对不起，”我总算找回了声音开口说。 “对不起，劳拉姨妈。 我不是故意要把事情搞成

happen." Jennifer started apologizing, too. "It's my fault. I should've put the cap back on the can. I shouldn't have left it out in the open like that at all." Evonne put down her camera and ran into the bathroom. I heard the water running, and then she ran back in with a wet towel, and started blotting Aunt Laura's dress. "No, stop," Mom said. "It's not coming out. It's just making the blue part spread out." "Aunt Laura," I started again. "I know you didn't mean for this to happen," she said. "It's okay." But I could tell she didn't really think it was, because her voice was hoarse, and her eyes were getting bigger and rounder, like she was going to cry. "Excuse me a sec," she said, and she went into the bathroom. Evonne dropped the towel,

这样的。” 珍妮弗也赶紧开始道歉。 “是我的错。 我刚才应该把颜料罐的盖子盖回去的。 我根本就不该把它就那么敞着放在外面。” 伊冯放下手里的相机，冲进了卫生间。 我听见水流响的声音，接着她就拿着一块湿毛巾跑回来，开始轻轻按擦劳拉姨妈的裙子。 “别，停下，”妈妈说道。 “擦不掉的。 这么擦只会让蓝色的污渍晕开得更大。” “劳拉姨妈，”我又开口想说话。 “我知道你不是故意的，”她说道。 “没事的。” 但我看得出来她心里根本不觉得没事，因为她的声音都哑了，眼睛睁得越来越大、越来越圆，好像马上就要哭出来了。 “我失陪一下，”她说完就走进了卫生间。 伊冯扔下毛巾，

and she and Nicole went after her. That's when I started crying. Because I'd never made a grown-up cry before, and Aunt Laura was one of my favorite grown-ups in the whole entire world. "Mom, I'm so sorry," I told her. "I didn't mean for it to happen." "I knew Uncle Rob shouldn't see the bride before the wedding!" Penny said. "Mom?" I said. "It's all right, Stel," she said. "It's just that every bride has a vision for her big day, and this wasn't what Aunt Laura expected." I'd had a vision for this day, too. And it was nothing like I'd expected either. Not at all. "Girls, I have an idea," Grandma said. She was talking to Penny, Lia, and me, plus Mom, because to Grandma, Mom is a girl, too. "Elaine, why don't you help Laura out, and I'll take these three downstairs. We can

她和妮可也跟着进去了。 这时候我也哭了起来。 因为我从来没把一个大人弄哭过，而且劳拉姨妈是全世界我最喜欢的大人之一啊。 “妈妈，我真的好对不起她，”我跟妈妈说。 我不是故意要发生这种事的。” “我就知道罗布叔叔不该在婚礼前见新娘的！” 佩妮说道。 “妈妈？”我喊了她一声。 “没事的，斯特尔，”她安慰我。 “只是每个新娘都对自己的婚礼大日子有美好的设想，现在这情况是劳拉姨妈没料到的。” 我本来也对今天有好多美好的设想。 现在也完全不是我预期的样子了。 一点都不是。 “姑娘们，我有个主意，”奶奶开口说道。 她是在跟佩妮、莉娅还有我说话，也算上妈妈，因为对奶奶来说，妈妈也还是个姑娘呢。 “伊莱恩，你进去陪陪劳拉吧，我带这三个小家伙下楼去。 我们可以

give everyone up here some space to calm down, and we can check out the ballroom while we're at it. Is that okay with everyone?" Everyone nodded. At the elevators, Penny told me I could be the one to press the button for the lobby, but I shook my head. "That's okay," I told her. "You can do it." Nothing was going to make me feel better. We got downstairs, and walked around the fountain, toward the stairs that head toward the ballroom. "Dad!" Penny called out. "Daddy!" When I looked up, there was Dad rushing toward the concierge desk. The four of us went right over to him. There was a woman named Julie at the desk. Obviously I knew her name because of her uniform. "What's going on?" Grandma asked. "There's a problem with the cake," Dad

给楼上的大家留点空间冷静冷静，正好我们也可以去看看宴会厅。 大家觉得这样行吗？” 所有人都点了点头。 到电梯口的时候，佩妮说可以让我来按一楼的按钮，但我摇了摇头。 “没事的，”我跟她说。 “你按就好。” 现在什么事都没法让我开心起来。 我们到了楼下，绕过喷泉，朝着通往宴会厅的楼梯走去。 “爸爸！” 佩妮喊了起来。 “爸爸！” 我抬头一看，爸爸正急匆匆地朝着礼宾台走过去。 我们四个赶紧朝他走过去。 礼宾台那儿站着个叫朱莉的女士。 我当然知道她的名字啦，因为她工牌上写着呢。 “出什么事了？” 奶奶问道。 “蛋糕出问题了，”爸爸