This choice: Edna runs from the giants. • Go Back... Edna suddenly cursed and slapped herself. "Get a hold of yourself, girl!" She nearly screamed it. Then she looked up in sudden horror that one of the giants around her may have heard her. Of course, they didn't. Both Heather and Ruth, godlike in height, their faraway faces looking at one another instead, weren't expecting Edna to be the size of a bug.
"I am not a bug," Edna said through gritted teeth, dispelling the thought. Then, with a frustrated cry, she started running off to the side, toward the lip under the lockers. She'd be out of sight there and that would give her time to think, but she suddenly found herself surrounding by giant, stomping feet. Edna screamed as she ran, remembering that the bell had just rung, but she had no choice. She was the size of a bug in front of Heather damn Miles, the worst bitch she knew, and Edna was helpless against her now more than ever.
Edna kept running, screaming, and mentally berating herself when suddenly a wall slammed down in front of her and Edna ran straight into the side of someone's sneaker. Then all at once it was gone, the foot soaring away, and the looming back of the giant steadily moving away. It made Edna dizzy to watch the giant move, probably a football player by his letter jacket, but she shook her head and kept running lest another foot fall from the sky. She very nearly ran right into the side of some girl's foot, the creamy side of her heel settling into the insole of her flip-flop right in front of Edna, showing her how much force she could have been under if she had been only a step or two further on, and then, like the sneaker, the giant foot lifted and was gone.
Edna was crying by the time she reached the underside of the locks, the lip hanging over her and casting her in shadow. She put her back to the rough, fuzzy wall made of the same stuff the carpet was, and put her back to it and sat down. She held her head in her hands and cried while feet stomped around before her, sometimes dangerously close as someone checked a locker by her. Edna saw the gun out in the hall. Ruth's shoes weren't there anymore, but Heather's feet, which Edna had been standing before moments ago, still were. Then a hand lifted the gun out of view.
Great, Edna thought, she'd made the most amazing invention the world had ever seen and then gave it to the person she hated the most.
Finally, the hallway emptied and the rumbling of the giant students walking around stopped. Edna caught her breath, peeking down the hallway in both directions. Okay, she thought, where to next?   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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