weren’t berries at all, but caviar, I stopped midbite.
Fish eggs? Repulsive! Then my father pointed out that I ate chicken eggs all the time, so why get squeamish over fish eggs?
He had a point. I hesitantly finished the cracker, and before long I was having another.
Bryce was standing all by himself across the room, and every time I happened to look his way, he was staring at me.
Finally I completely turned my back on him and said to my father, “So who’s trying to invent a perpetual-motion machine, anyway?”
My father laughed. “Mad scientists all over the world.”
“Really?” “Yes. For hundreds of years.” “Well, what do they do? What’s one look like?”
It wasn’t long before Chet was in on the discussion.
And just as I was finally starting to catch on to magnetism, gyroscopic particles, and zero-point energy, I felt someone standing behind me.
It was Bryce. I could feel my cheeks flush with anger. Couldn’t he see I wanted to be left alone?
I took a step away from him, but what that did was open up the group and allow him to move forward.
Now he was standing in our circle listening to our discussion! Well!
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