Gina Cresse - Devonie Lace 03 - A Deadly Change of Heart by Gina Cresse

Author:Gina Cresse [Cresse, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Treasure Hunter - California
ISBN: 080349498X
Publisher: Avalon Books
Published: 2001-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

Josh and Jeremy Lawerence

Science Project

Mr. Clayton

Applied Science

Lincoln High.

“Wow. It really works,” Craig said.

“You seem surprised. I never doubted your ability.”

“You should have. I’ve never seen the inside of a VCR before. But I couldn’t have you thinking you’re marrying a man who’s totally useless around the house. Luckily, there was a broken piece of videotape stuck in it. Anyone could have figured it out.”

“Well, you’re my hero. Shh. Let’s watch.”

The camera focused on two boys standing behind a table in a garage or workshop. The boys looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. One was thin and pale—a goth. His face was ivory-white, his long, stringy hair dyed coal-black. He wore tight black pants and a black turtleneck with some sort of silver symbol hanging from a chain around his neck. The other boy was equally as thin, but more colorful. His spiky hair stood straight up and was dyed a rainbow of colors. He had pierced his eyebrow and a small gold ring hung just over the corner of his right eye. He had a tattoo of a lizard wrapped around his upper left arm. He wore a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and baggy pants that hung two inches lower than the top of his boxer shorts.

On the table in front of the boys was a strange cylindrical object. It was about the size of a large fire extinguisher and sort of resembled one. When the gothic boy began speaking, I turned up the volume on my television. He proceeded to explain that the device was a bomb he and his brother had built. I sat up straight and adjusted the volume again. They were very proud of themselves. They had gotten all the information they needed to build the bomb from the Internet. It was easy, they boasted. The rainbow-haired boy then began explaining the chain of events in a nuclear reaction.

“Nuclear?” I whispered, afraid of what I was witnessing. Craig’s concerned eyes met mine.

The gothic boy continued by explaining that the twenty pounds of plutonium they’d used for the bomb could result in a thirty-five kiloton blast, equivalent to seventy million pounds of TNT. I tried to fathom seventy million pounds of anything, let alone TNT.

The boys concluded their presentation with a request to their teacher: “Hope we get an ‘A’ Mr. Clayton.”

Craig made me promise I’d take the tape to Sam Wright. I assured him I would. He held me and looked straight into my eyes. “I mean it. This is getting a little too weird. I’m worried about you. Give the tape to Detective Wright and let him handle it.”

I smiled up at him and closed my eyes. “I’ll give him the tape. Don’t worry. I’ll be fine.”

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