Just My Luck by Nicole Honey Boskey (free novels TXT) 📕

Walking out of the school building, I wrap my coat tighter around my waist, trying to keep the cold from seeping in. My hair whips around my head, while the wind stings my face. As I think ‘This couldn’t get any worse’, it does. I feel a big drop of liquid fall onto my arm. As I examine it, hoping it’s not bird droppings, another one falls onto my head. Then another. I realize that it is rain drops. I turn my face upwards and watch the rain drops turn from a slight drizzle to a steady stream as they hit the pavement. I wrap my coat tighter around me and bend my head low to the ground, preparing to make a run for the train station. As I start to run, the light turns red, and I’m forced to come to a sudden stop. There are puddles forming fast. A lot of people are running for cover as the rain comes down harder. I think to my self again, ‘It can’t get anymore worse than this!’
While I’m waiting at the stop light, getting wetter by the second, a car comes around the corner. I see the huge puddle in front in the car’s path, but I don’t move out the way in time. SPLASH! As the water splashes towards me, I already know it is too late to move out the way. ‘Great!’ I think to myself. The water under the car squirts at me full force, and catches me in my face, on my hair, and all over my clothes. I stand there, still as a lamppost, for a couple of seconds, stunned. I wipe my face with the back of my hand and look down at my clothes. There is mud and something brownish-grayish on my shirt and jeans. I look up to the sky and ask “What’s next?” A couple of moments pass by and I start to walk again, taking my time—I’m already wet! After a few feet, I feel a huge plop of liquid fall onto my shoulder. I take a closer look and see that it’s white and a little green. Bird Poop!! “Oh Come On!” I scream up to the sky, the rain still falling steadily. I bend my head towards the ground and slowly continue my journey home.

Publication Date: 03-22-2011

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