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Show -o- Feppermint Mor.day just listened. Russ acted like it was wonderful for someone to take a sick animal in their house and let the animal sleep on his bed. I wanted to remind him that Jake's house was better fit for animals than a human anyway, but I didn't. Russ wasn't supposed to know I'd been to Jake's place, and he had said once that he liked Jake's house in the hills. I bit my tongue while Russ told me how super Jake was. I forced myself to just ignore his hero worship and concentrate on the ditch banks that might conceal a lot of growing dandelions. I had science in the period right before lunch. Everybody was discussing their projects for the fair, everybody except me. I could have told them that I would have had some grown chickens by now if it hadn't been for Carson's cat. I could have told them about the jam I was going to make, except Grandma Ruby still hadn't consented. So I just sat there listening to the rest of them talking about insects on cork boards, electricity displays, and solar energy. It was the same old things every science fair- I wanted to do something different. Maybe I could bring Carson's cat in a cage with no food and let it go hungry for a week. "Hey, Red." I knew who was coming down the hall before I ever pulled my head out of my locker. I shouldn't have bothered to turn around, but like a fool, I did anyway. "Yeah, Billy. What do you want?" Billy seldom talked to anybody just to talk. He was planning on bullying me for some reason. "Your old man is going to flunk me in literature." He stopped several feet from my locker and tried to look tough. It was natural for him to look ugly, but he had to work on tough. He could fool some people, but not me. I never confused the two. |
