怦然心动中英文版（97）

“What happened?"I whispered to Darla.
“No one’s bidding, "she whispered back.
“Do I hear ten? ”called Mrs. Mcclure. “Come on, out there! This lunch is delicious. Strawberry tarts, roast beef and Muenster cheese sandwiches…”
“Oh, no!"I whispered to Darla. “I can't believe I did this to him!”
“You? What did you do?”
“I voted for him!”
" Well, you couldn’t have been the only one …”. “But why isn’t anyone bidding on him? He's. he's so nice.”
Darla nodded."Exactly.”
That's when I realized what I had to do, My hand shot into the air and I called. " Ten!”
" Ten? '”warbled Mrs. Mcclure. “Did I hear ten? ” I put my hand up higher and said to Darla, "Say twelve.”
“What?”
“Say twelve, I' ll outbid you .”
“No way!”
“Darla! He can't go for ten, c'mon!”
“Twelve! ”Darla called, but her hand didn't go up very high.
“Fifteen!” I cried.
“Sixteen! ”called Darla, and eyed me with a laugh .
I whispered, "Darla! I've only got fifteen.”
Her eyes got enormous.
I laughed and called, "Eighteen! "then held her arm down and said, " But that really is all I' ve got.”
There was a moment of silence and then, "Eighteen going once！Eighteen going twice. Sold! for eighteen dollars.”
Darla laughed and said， ＂Whoa， girl! What a rush! ” I nodded.“Yes， It was!”
“Well, no dessert for you. Looks like you got cleaned out by something a little more ..uh.. nutritious. "She nodded toward the stage. "You gonna go up to the table like you're supposed to? Or you gonna stick around and see the carnage?”
I almost didn’t have a choice. Before Mrs. Mcclure could say two words about Bryce or his basket, Shelly called, "Ten! "Then from the middle of the gym came ""Twenty! "It was Miranda Humes, with her hand way in the air. They went back and forth, back and forth, higher and higher, until Shelly called, "sixty-two!
“I can't believe it, " I whispered to Darla. "Sixty-two dollars! C'mon. Miranda. come on.”
“I think she's out. Shelly's got it.”
“Sixty-two dollars going once! "cried Mrs, Mcclure, but before she could say, Going twice! a voice from the back of the gym called, "A hundred！”
Everyone gasped and turned around to see who had called the bid.
Darla whispered, "It's Jenny.”
“Atkinson ？” I asked.
Darla pointed. "Right over there.”
She was easy to spot, standing tall above the others in the number seven basketball jersey she almost always wore, "Wow, " I whispered, "I had no idea.”
“Maybe she’ll slam-dunk him for you, "Darla said with a grin.
“Who cares? "I giggled. "She slam-dunked Shelly!”
Mrs. Mcclure was gushing into the microphone about the record- breaking bid when a big commotion broke out over by Miranda. I spotted Shelly's hair, and my first thought was that there was going to be a fight. But instead, Shelly and Miranda turned to face Mrs.Mcclure and called, " One-twenty-two fifty! ”
I choked down a cry. “What?”
“they're teamin'up, "Darla whispered.
" Oh, no-no-no! "I looked over Jenny's way "Come on, Jenny!”
Darla shook her head and said, “She’s through, ”and she was.
Bryce went to Shelly and Miranda for one hundred twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.