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Hello, friends, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.
卡姆坐在湖边，想着那些他一点都不想做的事。
Cam is sitting by the lake thinking about all the things he doesn't want to do.
他不想去上学。
He doesn't want to go to school.
他不想去踢足球。
He doesn't want to go to soccer.
他也不想上放学后的补习班。
He doesn't want to go to his after school classes.
卡姆静静地坐在湖边，看着周围的人，直到他低头看了眼手表，才发现时间不早了。
Cam sits quietly near the lake and watches the people around him until he looks at his watch and sees the time.
卡姆在湖边。
Cam at the lake.
天气热得连树荫都挡不住。
It was so hot that even the trees didn't help much.
卡姆坐在湖边，浑身汗津津、黏糊糊的，苍蝇在他脚踝周围嗡嗡乱飞，好像久别重逢似的特别兴奋。
Cam sat by the lake feeling sweaty and sticky, while flies buzzed around his ankles like they were excited to see him again.
他不想去上学，而学校就在他坐的地方，透过树梢隐约可见。
He didn't want to go to school, the school he could see peeking over the trees from where he sat.
他不想去踢足球。
He didn't want to go to soccer.
他不想去那些被迫参加的课后补习班。
He didn't want to go to the after school classes he was forced to go to.
他只想过一种属于自己的生活，只要不是学校或足球场，哪儿都行。
He just wanted to be somewhere he felt like he belonged, which was pretty much anywhere other than school or the soccer field.
到了周末，他就喜欢围着湖一圈接一圈地跑步。
On the weekends, he just liked to run and run and run around the lake.
不过，那地方早就不是什么湖了。
Though it wasn't really a lake anymore.
大人们在管着它，结果弄得像一片泥泞的沼泽。
The grown ups were managing it, which meant it looked more like a muddy swamp.
到处都是苍蝇。
Flies everywhere.
它们喜欢芦苇边那些潮湿阴暗的地方，尤其喜欢Cam的脚踝。
They liked the dark wet patches near the reeds, and they liked Cam, especially his ankles.
但他知道寺庙附近那些隐蔽的地方——高草丛后的角落，还有老榕树根之间的空隙，苍蝇根本找不到那儿。
But he knew the hiding places at the temple little pockets behind the tall grass and between the old banyan roots where the flies couldn't find him.
这就是他的地盘。
This was his spot.
不是对人保密的地方。
Not a secret from people.
那些老奶奶知道他常来，那些绕着圈散步的老大爷们八成也知道。
The old ladies knew he came here, and the old men who walked in circles probably knew too.
但对苍蝇来说是个秘密，这才是关键。
But a secret from the flies, which was what mattered.
有时候，Cam会拿出爸爸送他的速写本画画。
Sometimes Cam would draw in the sketchbook his daddy got him.
他现在正在画一本漫画。
He was drawing a comic right now, actually.
他是主角。
He was the hero.
他能飞，这特别有用，还会去很远的地方，那里有和他长得一模一样的孩子——这可能是最棒的部分。
He could fly, which was very useful, and he went to faraway places where there were kids who looked just like him, which was maybe the most useful thing of all.
有时候漫画里的其他孩子有宇宙飞船，有时候就只是骑自行车。
Sometimes in the comics, the other kids had spaceships, sometimes just bikes.
但他们都有和他一样的卷发。
But they always had curly hair like his.
他把速写本放下，看着那位老人沿着小路慢慢绕圈。
He set the sketchbook down and watched the old man making his slow loop around the path.
哈姆经常想这个问题。
Ham thought about this a lot.
既然能直着走，干嘛非得绕圈呢？
Why walk in circles when you could walk in a straight line?
直着走能到冰淇淋店、果汁摊，还有东门那儿的水果车，只要你礼貌点问，那位阿姨总会多给你几颗荔枝。
Straight lines brought you to things ice cream shops, juice stands, the fruit cart near the east entrance where the lady gave you extra lychee if you asked nicely.
直着走还能到商场，那里有空调，还有玩具。
Straight lines brought you to the mall, which had air conditioning and toys.
玩具？卡姆平时根本不让买，除非是圣诞节或者考试考得好——可他从来没考好过，这实在不公平。
Toys Cam wasn't allowed to have except at Christmas and when he did well on tests, which he didn't, which didn't seem fair.
他其实不太愿意去商场。
He didn't like to go to the mall much.
别的孩子都能拿到玩具。
Other kids got toys.
他 mostly 就在旁边看着。
He mostly watched them.
除非非去不可，而那基本上每个周末都得去。
Unless he was forced to go, which was basically every weekend.
他倒是喜欢看电影，而电影院就在商场里，所以也许，他也没那么讨厌商场。
He did like the movies, and the theater was at the mall, so maybe he liked the mall after all.
电影放得激烈的时候，椅子都会震动，而且还有香甜的爆米花。
The chairs vibrated during the loud parts, and they had sweet popcorn.
爸爸说，看电影和吃爆米花就像黄油一样配得刚刚好。
Daddy said movies and popcorn went together like butter.
卡姆不喜欢黄油，但他喜欢看电影。
Cam didn't like butter, but he liked the movies.
他低头看了看手表。
He looked at his watch.
他的手表特别大，大得离谱。
It was huge, his watch, very humongous.
他朋友伯特的手表差不多这么大，还能视频通话、玩游戏，上课时用起来可太方便了——尤其是数学课，又简单又无聊。
His friend Bert had one almost the same size that could do video calls and play games, which would be very useful during math class, which was easy and boring.
卡姆的手表只会看时间。
Cam's watch just told time.
现在显示的时间，可真不怎么样。
The time it told right now was not great.
他得走了。
He needed to go.
要是现在走，还能散步，这倒也有点好处。
If he left now, he could still walk, which had some advantages.
那些老头总会停下来，跟他打招呼，把他当小孩一样唠叨，可他又不是小孩，只能站在那儿，听他们问同样的问题，再答同样的答案。
One of the old men would stop and say hello and talk to him like he was a baby, which he wasn't, and he would have to stand there while they asked the same questions and he gave the same answers.
但长椅边的老婆婆们要温和多了。
But the old ladies by the benches were nicer.
她们有时坐着跳舞，而不是光在那儿转圈，还会给他送西瓜吃。
They sat and danced sometimes instead of just walking in circles, and they would give him watermelon.
她们总想摸他的头发。
They always wanted to touch his hair.
他不喜欢自己那头卷曲的棕发。
He didn't like his curly brown hair.
他想要不一样的发型。
He wanted different hair.
但就像那些看起来根本不可能实现的玩具。
But like toys that seemed impossible.
他又看了一眼手表。
He looked at his watch again.
还剩五分钟。
Five minutes.
他站起身，开始跑起来。
He stood up and started running.
绕着湖跑，湖水散发着泥土、陈年污水和一种卡姆说不上来但一直存在的化学气味。
Around the lake, which smelled like mud and old water and something chemical that Cam couldn't name but had always been there.
穿过芦苇丛和飞舞的苍蝇。
Past the reeds and the flies.
苍蝇朝他扑来，但他今天跑得更快了。
The flies went for him, but he was faster today.
经过他曾经见过蛇的地方，那条蛇还在那儿。
Past the spot where he once saw a snake, and the snake was there again.
还是老地方，好像它就住那儿似的，估计还真是。
Same spot, like it lived there, which it probably did.
那些野狗追着咬他脚后跟，倒帮他提速了，不过今天他跑得太快，连它们都追不上。
The stray dogs helped his speed as they nipped at his heels, but today he was too fast for even them.
那些老太太根本没看见他跑过去。
The old ladies didn't see him go.
那些老头子被转得晕头转向，根本没留意。
The old men were too dizzy from the circles.
马路对面，两辆车、三辆电动车，还有一个骑自行车的女人，车把手上挂着个用报纸盖着的篮子。
Across the street, two cars, three scooters, one woman on a bicycle with a basket full of something covered in newspaper.
谁都没撞上他，尽管有几个看起来好像故意想撞。
None of them hit him, even though some of them seemed to try.
跑过便利店——就是那家有好吃的日式冰淇淋、但他今天没钱买的店——冲进公寓楼的大堂。
Past the convenience store, the one with the good Japanese ice cream he didn't have money for today, Into the lobby of his apartment building.
爬楼梯，电梯太慢，他已经迟了两分钟。
Up the stairs because the elevator was slow and he was already two minutes late.
晚两分钟也没多大事。
Two minutes wasn't terrible.
他不会惹上多大麻烦。
He wouldn't get in that much trouble.
但他妈妈很担心。
But his mother worried.
他曾经听过她在电话里说起车子、蛇还有绑架的事。
He heard her on the phone once talking about cars and snakes and kidnapping.
他确实想过这个问题。
He had thought about that.
谁会来绑架他呢？
Who was going to kidnap him?
那些拿着西瓜的老太太？
The old ladies with the watermelon?
她们只会捏他的脸。
They would pinch his cheeks.
她们总会把本就乱糟糟的头发弄得更乱。
They would mess up his already messy hair.
那已经是最糟的情况了。
That was about the worst of it.
他转过楼梯间的最后一道弯，看见了自己楼层透出的灯光。
He came around the last turn in the stairwell and saw the light from his floor.
进门脱鞋，冲进去，绕过那几条总对他摇尾巴的狗，妈妈正站在窗边，装作没在等他。
Shoes off at the door, jump inside, pass the dogs who always were happy to see him, and there was his mother standing at the window pretending not to be looking out for him.
她装得一点都不像。
She wasn't very good at pretending.
他到家了。
He was home.
这就是我们的故事的结尾。
And that is the end of our story.
晚安。
Good night.
好好睡一觉。
Sleep tight.
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