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wish girl summary chapter 1
The summary of the wish girl in chapter 1 is the summer before I turn thirteen, I held so still it all- most killed me. There was a lot wrong with me. But at that moment the most serious thing was the rattlesnake on my feet. I stood as still as I could on the edge of a limestone cliff, the toes of my tennis shoes hanging off the hillside, my heartbeat thudding hard and fast at the base of my throat, my neck stiff, and my eyes on my shoes. On the diamondback rattler, gleaming brown and black and silver- gray, curled around both my feet, looped across the tops of my laces. My mouth had gone bone dry. I swallowed hard, and the snake's head, which had rested on the top of my left sneaker near my bare ankle, bobbed up, black tongue tasting the air. For a moment, I thought of kicking the snake of my feet, running for it. Then I realized it was completely wrapped around my ankle. If I tried to kick it, it would bite me for sure. I hoped it liked what it smelled, because I remembered something else. Rattlesnakes could strike at twice the length of their bodies. So this one, if it wanted to, could bite somewhere close to my throat. Someone would come looking for me, I thought. I wasn't hiding or anything.