Lights, Camera, Danger! by Henry Winkler

Author:Henry Winkler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc. (Ignition)
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

12

I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t tell if Cassidy had heard me. All I knew was that she was my only hope to help me stop the bleeding. My blood was flowing now, creating a purple splotch on my human and alien skin.

I tried my phone again, but it was dead. I couldn’t go into the kitchen to use the Parks’ phone on the wall. If they saw me in my half-alien, half-human state, they would call the FBI or the CIA or some other bunch of initials who would come and take me away.

My best plan was to sneak upstairs and see if Ulysses’s phone was in his bedroom. I took one of the guest towels and held it tightly to my chest so I wouldn’t leave a trail of purple blood on the floor. Quietly, I opened the bathroom door and crept over to the stairway. One of my suction cups made a popping nose as it hit the floorboards.

“Buddy, is that you?” Ulysses called out. “That’s one epic bathroom visit you’re having.”

I stood perfectly still and didn’t answer, until I heard Mr. Park say, “Ulysses, it’s not polite to comment on people’s bathroom habits. Buddy will return when he’s finished.”

“I’m just going to take my duffel bag upstairs and change into something more comfortable,” I shouted into the kitchen.

Climbing the stairs was really difficult because of all the blood I was losing. I felt like I was climbing Vesta Mound, the tallest mountain on my planet, which is four times higher than your Mount Everest, which is 5.4990 miles high. For you nonmath types, that makes Vesta Mound 21.996 miles high. That’s a lot of uphill miles when your legs feel like concrete.

Ulysses’s bedroom was a show business fan’s paradise. The walls were plastered with posters of all his favorite superheroes and movie stars. There were costumes and masks and hats hanging on hooks all over. Even the lamp on his desk was a glowing blue 3-D Iron Man face mask. I looked around for his phone, and I saw it lying on his desk, charging. Staggering over to it, I called Cassidy. It rang and rang, and finally she picked up.

“You have to get here now,” I said.

“I am here. Almost, anyway.”

“You are?”

“Yeah, I called Luis and he picked me up.”

I went to the window and looked out to see Luis’s car turning the corner.

“I’ll be right down,” I said. “Keep the motor running.”

I opened the window and started to climb out. In my woozy state, I had momentarily forgotten that I was on the second floor and it was a long way down. I was going to have to take the stairs and somehow get out of the house without the Parks seeing me. I looked around the room for an idea.

The costumes! Thank you, Ulysses, for having the movie wardrobe of the century.

I took the Batman cape off one of the hooks and draped it over my body. It covered some of me, but not all of me.

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