Leader of the Pack (Bryant Rockwell Book 3) by Gray Jacky

Author:Gray, Jacky [Gray, Jacky]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

15 The Evil That Boys Do

After dinner, Liv was still wrestling with homework which refused to engage her brain. For the first time in her life, she understood how Kat, with her non-maths brain, must feel when faced with the complexities of solving simultaneous equations. Or even simple factorising. The doorbell rang, interrupting her brief insight into life on planet Kat.

Her parents were watching a movie, so she clumped down the stairs to answer it, stepping back in surprise as Luke hovered anxiously.

“Sorry to interrupt, but Dad could only give me a lift if I came right now. I was gonna call, but …”

“Don’t worry about it.” She smiled, peering past him. “Is Jude with you?”

“No, this is something I don’t think you’d want her to hear. Can I come in?”

“Sure. Sorry. Where are my manners?”

After closing the door, she sank into his bear hug. He kissed the top of her head, a custom he’d taken up after the whole hero stunt he’d played to rid her of the Dirty Diana problem.

She smiled, loving her new big brother. “Can I get you a drink? We’ve got tea, coffee, coke ...”

“Coffee would be great, thanks. Don’t suppose you run to a cappuccino? Jude’s got me hooked on them.”

“Mum has something in a packet, but to be honest it’s more of a sweet brown sludge. I could boil the milk, that’s always good.”

“Ok, we’ll give it a blast. Did you finish the physics?”

“I think so. I struggled with the last question. All the rest factored out easily enough.”

“You should have used 9.8 instead of 10 for the acceleration due to gravity, that’s what Langley said. It doesn’t always do to round it all the way up to ten. I could see your mind wasn’t on the job when he said it.”

“Of course.” Liv metaphorically slapped the heel of her hand into her forehead. “Watch the milk for a sec. If I don’t do it right away I’ll have forgotten by the time you leave.”

His face gave a pure-panic wobble. “Hang on, what do I do?”

“It’ll bubble for a while then, all of a sudden, it’ll start foaming like a wild animal and rising up. Turn off the gas the second it does.”

“How do I do that?”

“You just turn this knob ... ohhh, you brat, I nearly fell for it.” She caught the wicked grin on his face and slapped his arm, then ran up to get her physics book.

By the time she’d worked out the new value and written it down, he’d switched off the gas.

She poured the coffee and brought it over. “Thanks for that. But it wasn’t why you hauled your cookies all the way over here, was it?” She gestured at her physics book.

“That sounds rank.” He pulled a comically disgusted face. “What have you been watching?”

“Grease.” She adopted a too-cool-for-school pose and quoted the iconic speech. “‘You mean you hauled your cookies all the way to the beach for some guy?’ Great line from the Queen of snark, Rizzo.

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