Erimentha Parker Chapter 25 ... again (honestly the fact she can't even label Chapters correctly doesn't exactly give you much hope for the book)
Plot -
- In school the next day Ruby confronts Kimberly about the website, it obviously doesn't go well
- Kimberly snatches the book Ruby is holding, which is the one Miss Solomon lent her and uses a pastel green highlighter to deface it while Beth holds Ruby down
- Kimberly then starts throwing bits of orange peel at Ruby while she is crying. Then she smashes the orange on Ruby's forehead
- Ruby thinks everyone in her class is animalistic and cruel. She describes feeling separate from her body and leaves, asking the others to tell Mr Aldridge she is ill and gone to the nurse.
Quotes -
- "My peers continue with their morning chatter, oblivious to Kimberly's malice. For the first time I understand what Orwell meat when he said that ignorance was bliss"
- "She looks me square in the eye, her irises clearer and brighter than ever"
- "She flicks through the pages delicately. They ripple like pointe shoes tip-toeing across the stage of The Nutcracker"
- While describing an orange Kimberly has - "She digs her nails into the skin, throwing the peelings my way and looking curiously at the sphere in her palm, as though interested in the vein-like pith. it forms a spider's web over the thin translucent film"
- "The sticky juice seeps across my face and dribbles drop from my nose and down my chin. The desiccated mass drops into my skirt, leaving a snail-trail in its wake"
