MARIAH FREDERICKS
THE GIRL IN THE PARK
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MARIAH FREDERICKS
THE GIRL IN THE PARK
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DAY ONE
In my dream, everyone talks except me. It’s a party, and I’m sur- rounded by voices. I listen. I smile. I nod. No one is actuallyspeaking to me. But still—I want to pretend I’m a part o it.Faces spin by in a blur. More people now, and still more. Theylaugh, tease, point ngers. Their talk becomes a meteor shower o sound, the words coming too ast and hard to understand.And maybe because I am silent, I’m the one who sees her.Wendy. She’s standing in a wide- open window. The city stretchesvast and dark behind her. Her toes are poised on the sill, her ngertips just reach the edges. There is nothing to hold her asshe stares into the crowded room.All o a sudden, she wobbles. Her ngers lose their hold.Now it’s all balance. Her arms fail, a oot rises. I am too ar away, I can’t reach her in time.
Stop!
I yell. But it comes out an ugly blurted
Op!
Peopleglance over, embarrassed, go back to their talk.
She’s falling!
This is
She alling!
Someone giggles. Another girltries to hide her smile.Desperate, I scream,
Someone help her!
 
Thomeone elper!
Now the laughter starts. As everyone swings toward me,
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