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翻譯 （四十八）：消失的過去/茱迪?皮考特 Vanishing Acts/Jodi Picoult在六年級結束的時候，男孩子們鼓起勇氣約女孩子們出去。這絕對沒有任何意義，只是兩個人在自助餐吃午飯的時候，面對面地坐著，偶爾通過電話聊天。按照這個標準，迪莉婭和我實際上已經結婚了，我們在一起度過的時間比大部分韋克斯頓中學的任何其他夫婦都多得多——也就是說，直到菲茨正式邀請迪莉亞和他一起出去約會。
我知道這毫無意義——關于誰喜歡誰的流言就像八月的吉普賽飛蛾一樣飛來飛去——但同樣的，我花費了太多時間，想象我是菲茨，當我們在軌道上面平行走的時候，我牽著迪莉婭的手，或者當我們疲憊不堪地透過鞋盒上的針孔看日食的時候，我躺在她旁邊潮濕的草地上。過了一段時間，菲茨不再打電話給我，然后是迪莉婭；我試圖說服自己，我從來都不需要他們中的任何一個。
我甚至跳到了學校舞會的尾聲，在我聽唐尼·德毛里奧（一個留著胡子，帶著一包私煙的12歲男孩）的小船，這時，迪莉婭哭著出現了。”菲茨和我分手了“，她說。
我無法想象為什么，后來，他告訴我真相，我寧愿擁有你們兩個，他用他那種輕松的方式說，而不是其中一個。但那一刻，菲茨不在我們身邊，迪莉婭離我如此之近，以至于我手臂上的汗毛都伸向了她的熱度。” 我猜我可以和你一起出去“，我說。
” 你猜你可以和我一起出去？“ 她重復道。” 哎呀，謝謝你做出了的犧牲。不要幫我什么忙。“
我很了解她，知道當迪莉婭把你推開時，這是她確保自己不會先被推開的方法。在她逃跑之前，我抓住了她的手臂。 “我很想和你一起出去，” 我說得更小心了。那這樣更好的嗎?”
“ 可以吧！”
“ 但是我們應該干什么？” 我問道。
她咬著她的下唇。“ 如果你愿意，我們可以一起跳舞。”
我以前從來沒有和一個女孩子跳過舞，盡管迪莉婭和我從小就在池塘里裸泳，睡在一個狹小的帳篷里，我們不得不共享彼此的空氣，這感覺是沒有緣由的新鮮。我的手掠過迪莉婭的脊椎，落在她的臀部上。她聞起來像桃子，在她的針織連衣裙下面，我能感覺到她內衣的松緊帶。
她替我們兩人說話。她說，一天晚上，菲茨打電話約她出去，她不知道該回答 “ 是” 還是“ 不是” ，“ 是的”就從她的嘴里溜了出來。她說她一心要拿回她的德懷特·埃文斯籃球卡，她把這張卡給了菲茨，以表示她真的很喜歡他。
當一首歌曲結束后，迪莉婭并沒有把我推開。她站在了原地，甚至可能靠近了一點。“ 你想繼續說嗎？”我問。
“ 不想”，她說，微笑著看著我的眼睛。 “ 我想我已經說完了”。
By the time the end of six grade rolled around, boys had mustered up the nerve to ask girls out. This meant absolutely nothing, except that duo would sit next to each other at the lunch in the cafeteria, and occasionally talk on the phone. By this criterion, Delia and I were practically married-we spend far more time together than any other couple in the Wexton Middle school- that is, until Fitz officially asked Delia to go out with him.
I knew it meant nothing- rumors about who liked whom flew around like gypsy moths in August-but all the same, I spent too much time in that I was Fitz, holding on to Delia's hand when we balanced on the railroad tracks or lying next to her on the damp grass when we tired to look at the solar eclipse through a pinhole in a shoebox. After a while, Fitz stopped calling me, and then Delia; and I tried to convince myself that I'd never needed either of them.
I even stag to the end-of-school dance, I was listening to the boats of Donnie DeMaurio, a twelve-year-old who had a mustache and a pack of bootleg cigarettes, when Delia appeared, crying. " Fitz broke up with me, " she said.
I couldn't imagine why later, he told me the truth, I rather have both of you, he said in that easy way of his, than just one. But at that moment, Fitz was absent and Delia was so close that the hair on my arms was reaching towards the heat of her. " I guess I could go out with you," I said.
" You guess you could go out with me?" she repeated. "Gee, thanks for making the sacrifice. Don't do me any favors."
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first. I grabbed her arm before she could run away. " I would very much like to go out with you," I said more carefully. " Is that better?"
" maybe."
" So what do we do?" I asked.
She chewed her her bottom lip. "We could dance if you want."
I had never danced with a girl before, and even though Delia and I had grown up skinny-dipping in ponds and sleeping so close in a pinched tent that we had to share each other's air, it felt unreasonably new. My hands skimmed over Delia's spine to settle on her hips. She smells like peaches and beneath her knit dress I could feel the thin elastic of her underwear.
She talked for both us. She talked about how, on the phone one night, Fitz had asked her out, and how she didn't know whether to say yes or no and yes had just slipped out. She talked about how she fully intended to get back her Dwight Evans basketball card, which she had given to Fitz as a way of saying she really like him.
When the song ended, Delia didn't pull away. She stayed there， maybe even moved a tiny bit closer. " You want to keep talking?" I asked.
" No," she said, smiling into my eyes. " I think I'm done."
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