2015-11-26

【Aiden in English】

        I walked to his seat silently, noticing people around him just beginning to trickle out. Quietly taking out his lunch, my nose quickly wrinkled to the scent of the dumplings his grandma made that morning. I, who had been dealing with unusually smell all my life, seemed unfazed, but my friends around me appeared to have other opinions. “Hey Aiden,” said Bob, a good friend of mine, stopping by as he was throwing out his trash. “I was apparently told that my mom would be picking me up after lunch for some reason.” Taking a breath through his nose as he sat down, Bob suddenly wheezed and gagged a bit, his body doubled over. After a moment, he raised his head towards me, as if he had something to say. When he opened his mouth, instead of regular words, a flood of half-digested rations hit my dead center in the chest, and ricocheting slop landed on nearby innocent children, filling the cafeteria with shrill screams of terror and chaos erupted around them. This day was not going well for me. Bob, too, didn’t exactly look so good either. His face was pale and green goo dripping down his chin and down the sides of his cheeks. He had collapsed in a sour puddle he regurgitated just seconds before, and through the mess around the table, I barely made out a groan escape the lips of his friend.

        Bob continued to spew vomit every now and then as I walked him to the nurse’s office, and the flow of food continued out of his mouth. It came to a point where I had to duct tape his lips together, although it may have caused a lot more pain to Bob who had to swallow his own throw-up. Reaching the nurse’s office, the duct tape was starting to loosen as the vomit forced it to strain. A vile smell enveloped the two friends, and when the nurse took a whiff, she wrinkled her nose in disgust. Seeing the duct tape, and without hearing my loud warnings about being blasted with vomit, she lifted the edges of the tape. Then, as if in slow motion, the duct tape came off with a sickening RIPPPP, and a torrent of colors blasted a very un-expectant nurse straight in the face. When she opened her mouth to scream, bits of the bile flew into her mouth, gagging her. In the end, I remained standing, but neither Bob nor the nurse seemed to be conscious.

【紅霞譯文】

        我悄悄走到午餐座位前，只見身邊朋友紛紛起身離去。這時，我若無其事地打開飯盒，鼻子下意識蠕動了一下，很快便嗅出今個早起外婆現煮的餃子香味，跟這種氣味打了一輩子交道的我似乎早已習以為常，但其他朋友卻另有說辭。“嘿兒歌，”鐵杆哥們鮑勃扔掉手中的垃圾上前打聲招呼：“吃罷午飯，媽媽要接我回去辦事。”他邊說邊坐了下來，用鼻子深吸一口氣，突然呼吸變得急促起來，喉嚨如同被卡住似的，身體不由得朝前傾斜。稍息片刻，他衝着我抬起頭，仿佛有什麼話要講，可剛一張開口還沒有發出聲響，尚未來得及消化處理掉的胃中積食一股腦兒吐到我的胸脯上，粘漿稠液轉而又濺到附近無辜的同伴身上，食堂立刻陷入混亂，驚恐萬狀的尖叫聲響徹大廳內外，這天我可真夠倒霉，當然鮑勃也不好受。他臉色煞白，青了吧唧的東西流經臉頰兩側並垂掛在下巴上面，有氣無力地癱坐在剛才因反胃嘔吐而成的酸液積窪之中，餐桌周圍一派狼藉，此時我身陷囹圄，呼天天不應叫地地不靈。

        在陪同鮑勃趕往護士站途中，我終於被吐得體無完膚。食流胃液從他口中噴發不止，無奈之餘，我只好抄起膠帶索性把他嘴巴徹底封死，這下真給鮑勃新添了不少痛苦，他必須把吐到嘴邊的玩意咽回肚裡。抵達醫務室時，膠帶開始變松，形狀也被蹂躪地走了樣，我們兩位渾身上下臭味十足，護士沒憋住倒吸了一口氣，結果嗆得她直抽鼻子。一見鮑勃臉上貼的繃帶，她不顧我高聲遏止動手去扌—曷—揭，說時遲那時快，食道殘留物猶如決堤後的污泥濁水狂瀉而出，迎面打中護士滿副同情的臉龐，把她噁心得大呼小叫，空中飛舞的膽汁綠液正好落入她嗓子眼裡。最後，鮑勃虛脫，護士抽風，只剩下我一人孤零零地站在原地動彈不得。