Best of the Best by Tim Green

Author:Tim Green [Green, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Sports & Recreation, Baseball & Softball, Family, General, Marriage & Divorce
ISBN: 9780062076953
Google: D96Kjfbn6RgC
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

JOSH COULDN’T HELP FEELING bad for Zamboni. Even after touching his own face to remind himself of the shot Zamboni had given him earlier, Josh still felt bad.

“It’s time for us to tell him about Candid Camera,” Benji said with a grin. “Man, who cares about the cigarettes? When we show him this? He’ll lick the bottoms of your shoes. You won’t have to worry about him blowing you in to your dad anymore.”

Josh stood up and backed away. “Well, the cigarette is enough, Benji. Let’s not go there with the kid crying.”

“Dude, look at your face,” Benji said. “It looks like you got kicked by a mule. You gotta shut him up and serve him.”

“I don’t have to serve him, Benji. We don’t need to be like that.”

“But you hate this guy.”

“I know,” Josh said, “but that doesn’t matter. You just don’t do that.”

“He’s crying like a baby.”

“Because of his dad, Benji,” Josh said. “You never cried about your parents splitting up? When you wanted your dad to be at something and he couldn’t?”

“Me?” Benji said, sticking a thumb in his own chest. “Cry? I’m a heavy hitter, like the Babe, Reggie Jackson, like Manny Ramirez before steroids. Heavy hitters don’t cry, Josh. They fight on.”

Josh looked away. “I don’t want that part of it, Benji.”

“Well, you can’t separate the two, buddy,” Benji said. “He’s got to see this if you want to keep him quiet.”

“But I don’t want you to say anything about him crying.”

“What, we just act like we don’t see the kid sitting there, smoking his stupid face off and crying like a total baby?”

“Right.”

Benji shrugged. “Whatever.”

“It doesn’t require you to say anything.”

“Hey,” Benji said, closing up the program, “about this not requiring ‘me’ to say anything stuff? Who do you think is going to show him the tape, anyway?”

“Well, it’s your dad’s computer,” Josh said. “And the whole thing was your idea.”

“Yeah, to save your butt,” Benji said. “You’re the one showing him and serving up the blackmail. I’m not doing that. It’s illegal.”

“Illegal?”

“I’m sure we’re not going to get caught or anything,” Benji said. “Even if we do, we’re just kids.”

“Which part of this is illegal?” Josh asked.

“Well.” Benji scratched his head. “I think the taping part—I don’t think you can technically do that to someone when they don’t know you’re doing it—and probably the blackmail part, too.”

“Oh my God,” Josh said, staring in horror at the computer. “Get rid of it.”

“But Josh, it’ll keep him quiet.”

“But it’s blackmail.” Josh hushed his voice into a frantic whisper. “Of course it is. That makes sense. What was I thinking? What were you thinking?”

“Just helping you out.”

“I know, but two wrongs don’t make a right,” Josh said. “That’s basic. We should get rid of it.”

“Well,” Benji said, turning toward the computer, “technically, in math, if you multiply two negatives, you get a positive, so I’m not sure you’re completely correct.”

Josh threw up his hands. “Come on, you know what I mean. Get rid of it.”

“Darn.” Benji typed in some commands.

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