Anyway, today’s one of the really annoying days. Eric pops into existence on the school bus and sits next to me. It’s so embarrassing. I mean, I know no one else can see him, but he won’t stop talking. I pretend I’m on my phone. That way, it doesn’t look like I’m sitting on the bus talking to myself.
Least, that’s what I thought, but just as I’m about to get off the bus, Mandy Dorkins leans over from the seat behind. “God, you’re pathetic. Everyone knows there’s no one on the other end.”
I tell her to go swivel on it, and when the bus stops, my foot just happens to be in exactly the right place to makes her trip up and fall on her ugly face. Everyone laughs at her.
And I feel great for, like, a nanosecond, which is as long as it takes for Eric to stick his bloody oar in. “I’ve been doin
