Double Feature: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain ZombiesBride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies (The Russel Middlebrook Series Book 3) by Brent Hartinger

Author:Brent Hartinger [Hartinger, Brent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

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Monday at school, Min, Gunnar, and I were walking down the hallway, and we came across that poster calling for extras for Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies—the one that had started this whole thing in the first place. It was out-of-date now, but no one had taken it down. As for the movie itself, there were still more scenes to be done with the extras, but I was grounded, so I wouldn't be going.

"Damn," I said. "Something just occurred to me." I turned to Min. "I owe you ten bucks."

"What?" she said.

"Don't you remember? When we first saw this poster? You bet that if we did the movie, we'd all have completely different experiences?"

"Yeah," mumbled Gunnar. "Someone was in a bad mood that day."

"The fact is," I said, "you were right." I thought about everything that had happened—my encounters with Kevin, Declan McDonnell, and Otto, not to mention all the crap with my parents. "Boy, were you right! Talk about completely different experiences!" I reached for my wallet.

Min stopped me. "It's okay. I didn't win that bet."

I looked up at her.

"Sure, different things happened to each of us," she said. "But we were together too, in more ways than one. Even when we weren't together, we were together, you know?"

I thought about this. I remembered Thanksgiving dinner, and how comforting it had felt to be surrounded by such good friends. And I thought about how nice it had been for Min and me to finally share our different experiences with each other. So I guess Min had a point.

"Oh," I said to Min. "Well, in that case, you can pay me!"

Min laughed. Gunnar did too.

"No," I said. "Seriously! Pay up!"

Only now did I join in their laughter. If you can't laugh when you're grounded for a month, when can you laugh?

"So what's next?" Gunnar said.

"What do you mean?" Min asked.

"Oh, you know us," Gunnar said. "Seems like we're always in the middle of something. So what's next?"

I had plenty of ideas, but being grounded, I wouldn't be getting to them anytime soon. Besides, you can't go on and on in life, never stopping, never resting. Every now and then, it's a good idea to take a little breather and say, That part of my life is over, and for the time being, we've come to…

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