I didn't like the implication. And even though my dad had been tossing me the same sort of look all week, I could tell---he didn't like this girl either. "Hey! Don't do that." he warned her. "There are some really valuable things in that box."
"Oh. Well, how about this one?" She scoots over to a box labeled LENOX and looks my way again. "We should push it together!"
"No,no,no!" my dad says, then pulls her up by the arm. "Why don't you run along home? Your mother's probably wondering where you are."
This was the beginning of my soon-to-become-acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint. Of any kind. Does she zip on home like a kid should when they've been invited to leave? No. She says, "Oh, my mom knows where i am. She said it was fine." Then she points across the street and says,"We just live right over there."
My father looks to where she's pointing and mutters, "Oh boy." Then he looks at me and winks as he says, "Bryce, isn't it time for you to go inside and help your mother?"
I knew right off that this was a ditch play. And i didn't think about it until later, but ditch wasn't a play? I'd run with my dad before. Face it, pulling a ditch is not something discussed with dads. It's like, against parental law to tell your kid? it's okay to ditch someone, no matter? how annoying or muddy they might be.(理解大意：父親給我支了個招讓我擺脫朱莉的糾纏，我立馬會意，并毫不猶豫的跑到父親跟前，仰頭看著他，我很疑惑，父親并沒有和我說過這個事情，但是他給我的感覺就是無論我現(xiàn)在有多煩多臟，馬上就可以走。）
But there he was, putting the play in motion. and man, he didn't have to wink twice. I smiled and said, " Sure thing!" then jumped off the liftgate and headed for my new front door.
筆記：
implication 含蓄
even though 盡管
toss 把頭甩過來
scoot 溜走
label 標記
awareness 察覺
hint 暗示
mutter 輕聲細語；小聲咕噥
wink 使眼色
right off 毫不猶豫
ditch 擺脫
motion 打手勢
liftgate 提升式門（旅行車的后門）
簡意：
布萊斯的父親幫助他擺脫了朱莉的糾纏。
