Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski Page A

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    We’re out picnicking by the lake, on a day so beautiful you can’t help feeling as miserable as if you had just turned seventeen, which, in fact, I have.
    I think Marty and Alice have figured it out, but they know better than to congratulate me on my increased proximity to death.
    I am commemorating the occasion by juggling.
    Learning to juggle is the one incontrovertible way I’ve managed to better myself in the year since I came to Westing, because what else is a lonely, sexually frustrated boy to do but to get his hands on as many balls as possible? Or in today’s case, apples. The apples rise and fall and rise and fall as Alice talks about the newsies.
    â€œâ€”it’s just so important that they know about all the resources the campus has to offer. Westing counseling”—she shoots me a meaningful look—“the sexual assault hotline, the office of residential life. I know personally how hard the adjustment can be.”
    Marty’s nodding, maintaining eye contact, almost as if he cares, while the two of them feign interest in my display of manual dexterity. I’m about to make a comment like I doubt a shrink could counsel meaning into life, but Alice knows me too well. “You look like you’re in the mood to argue,” she says, studying me with a small frown.
    â€œYou would know, seeing as we do it so much. What do they say? Ten thousand hours of practice leads to mastery?”
    I catch the apples, spill them into the blanket between us.
    â€œWe don’t do it that much,” she says.
    I glance at Marty for support. He gives me his patented deer-in-the-headlights look.
    â€œMore than a little