“What did they do? Is it the floor? Did they wreck the floor?”
This was great. Sizzle sounded innocent because he really didn’t know what was going on, so I joined in. “I bet someone stole our equipment? Who did it?”
That was enough for Coach. “It’s nothing like that. Calm down.”
“Well, what happened?” Johnny demanded.
“I can’t say,” Coach said quietly. “I’m just glad to know you boys didn’t have anything to do with it.”
Sizzle crossed his arms over his chest. “This is stupid. This is our school. This is our gym. What’s going on?”
Coach answered by sending us to class.
But we watched. We noticed when the work trucks came in. We snickered when the tow trucks arrived. We whispered to each other and bumped fists in the hallway. It didn’t matter anyway; by the end of first period, most of the school was whispering about Mr. Perkin s ’ car wedged between the bleachers like a lemon seed in a straw .
I don’t really know how we got away with it; I just know we did. Mr. Perkins figured it must have been the football team, but he never could prove anything thanks to Drew’s soda cup. No matter how often he pulled kids into his office, no one seemed to know anything and everyone had an alibi. The only freshman he talked to was Seth, and Seth’s dad put an end to that. We heard he came into the office, told Perkins to stop picking on his kid, and threw a chair. The chair part could have been a nothing more than a rumor, but knowing Seth’s dad , it could have been true too.
There was talk that next week’s pep assembly was going to be cancelled, but punishing us for something no one could prove we had done didn’t seem fair. So the pep assembly w ent on as planned.
Putting Mr. Perkins’ car in the gym was the best prank ever .
<3
The movie we went to see was stupid, but it didn’t matter. Liz and I sat in the back row of the theatre near the wall. Kate and Jason sat a few rows up near the aisle to give us some privacy.
“Isn’t this great?” Liz studied Kate and James who actually appeared to talk to each other once in a while. “I can’t believe Kate is out on a real date.”
“Do they like each other?”
“I think so. I know Kate thinks he’s cute, and I catch him looking at Kate all the time in science.”
I shrugged. I didn’t really care about whether Jason thought Kate was cute. I had even given up trying to guess if either one of them was going to find enough confidence to actually speak to each other beyond a few words. I was too busy trying to figure out how to get my arm around Liz’s shoulders without looking like a freak.
“The hard part was getting Jason to ask her out.” Liz’s green eyes focused on me as if I was supposed to understand what she was talking about. “He’s kinda shy too.”
I guess I must have stared at her blankly because Liz rolled her eyes at me.
“You have no idea what I’m talking about, do you?”
Then she explained how she tried to hint to Jason over and ov er to ask Kate out, and finally she had to come right out and tell him exactly what to do . “I still didn’t think he would do it,” she said , watching them again, “but he did.”
Liz put a piece of popcorn in her mouth and smiled at me. “I can be pretty sneaky.”
I smiled back at her, but I really hadn’t heard much of what she said. I was deciding whether to put my arm around her or not. Finally, I set my soda down and just went for it.
Liz noticed my hand dangling like a fish out of water over her shoulder , and she took her hand and closed it over mine. It was soft and warm.
“I was wondering when you would do that,” she said settling into my shoulder.
By now the previews were over and the feature had begun, but I still had no idea what the movie was about. That familiar jolt of Liz- tricity was flying through my body, and I was too busy hoping Liz would let me kiss her.
“Hey , Spaghetti-O, c ’mere ,” she whispered in my ear.
I
This was great. Sizzle sounded innocent because he really didn’t know what was going on, so I joined in. “I bet someone stole our equipment? Who did it?”
That was enough for Coach. “It’s nothing like that. Calm down.”
“Well, what happened?” Johnny demanded.
“I can’t say,” Coach said quietly. “I’m just glad to know you boys didn’t have anything to do with it.”
Sizzle crossed his arms over his chest. “This is stupid. This is our school. This is our gym. What’s going on?”
Coach answered by sending us to class.
But we watched. We noticed when the work trucks came in. We snickered when the tow trucks arrived. We whispered to each other and bumped fists in the hallway. It didn’t matter anyway; by the end of first period, most of the school was whispering about Mr. Perkin s ’ car wedged between the bleachers like a lemon seed in a straw .
I don’t really know how we got away with it; I just know we did. Mr. Perkins figured it must have been the football team, but he never could prove anything thanks to Drew’s soda cup. No matter how often he pulled kids into his office, no one seemed to know anything and everyone had an alibi. The only freshman he talked to was Seth, and Seth’s dad put an end to that. We heard he came into the office, told Perkins to stop picking on his kid, and threw a chair. The chair part could have been a nothing more than a rumor, but knowing Seth’s dad , it could have been true too.
There was talk that next week’s pep assembly was going to be cancelled, but punishing us for something no one could prove we had done didn’t seem fair. So the pep assembly w ent on as planned.
Putting Mr. Perkins’ car in the gym was the best prank ever .
<3
The movie we went to see was stupid, but it didn’t matter. Liz and I sat in the back row of the theatre near the wall. Kate and Jason sat a few rows up near the aisle to give us some privacy.
“Isn’t this great?” Liz studied Kate and James who actually appeared to talk to each other once in a while. “I can’t believe Kate is out on a real date.”
“Do they like each other?”
“I think so. I know Kate thinks he’s cute, and I catch him looking at Kate all the time in science.”
I shrugged. I didn’t really care about whether Jason thought Kate was cute. I had even given up trying to guess if either one of them was going to find enough confidence to actually speak to each other beyond a few words. I was too busy trying to figure out how to get my arm around Liz’s shoulders without looking like a freak.
“The hard part was getting Jason to ask her out.” Liz’s green eyes focused on me as if I was supposed to understand what she was talking about. “He’s kinda shy too.”
I guess I must have stared at her blankly because Liz rolled her eyes at me.
“You have no idea what I’m talking about, do you?”
Then she explained how she tried to hint to Jason over and ov er to ask Kate out, and finally she had to come right out and tell him exactly what to do . “I still didn’t think he would do it,” she said , watching them again, “but he did.”
Liz put a piece of popcorn in her mouth and smiled at me. “I can be pretty sneaky.”
I smiled back at her, but I really hadn’t heard much of what she said. I was deciding whether to put my arm around her or not. Finally, I set my soda down and just went for it.
Liz noticed my hand dangling like a fish out of water over her shoulder , and she took her hand and closed it over mine. It was soft and warm.
“I was wondering when you would do that,” she said settling into my shoulder.
By now the previews were over and the feature had begun, but I still had no idea what the movie was about. That familiar jolt of Liz- tricity was flying through my body, and I was too busy hoping Liz would let me kiss her.
“Hey , Spaghetti-O, c ’mere ,” she whispered in my ear.
I
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