Midnight on Strange Street by K. E. Ormsbee

Author:K. E. Ormsbee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2020-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Dani bit into a steaming piece of corn on the cob, which she’d slathered in hot sauce and sprinkled with cotija cheese. She watched from the food tent as partygoers gathered and mingled around her. Some of these people were her age—fellow skaters or kids interested in the sport. Most of them, though, were older teens and adults—members of the adult Glowboarding League, or businesspeople, or curious locals. Glow Expo brought out a lot of Callaway residents simply because they didn’t have anything better to do until the Fourth of July.

Dani would be lying if she said she hadn’t wondered about Glow Expo the year before, when she’d made the other Sardines promise to boycott it. Back then, Zander had just left the team, and Dani had been raw over his betrayal. Now, a year later, she still felt on edge. This was Grackle territory, and she sure hoped Bastian’s plan was worth it.

The corn, Dani had to admit, was decent. She finished off the rest of it, dumping the cob into a nearby trash can. Then she sidled up to Lola and Avery, who were sitting side by side at a picnic bench, sharing a plate of barbecue and coleslaw. Radar sat at their feet, happily nibbling bits of brisket that Avery occasionally lowered to his mouth.

“Do you think it will work?” Dani asked, taking a seat at the table. “Bastian’s plan?”

“Yeah,” Avery said. “I mean, I hope it does.”

“I’m nervous about it,” Lola offered, in her quiet way. “I guess…well, I guess I’ve been scared to try.”

Dani pointed to their plate of food. “Hence the procrastinating.”

“Speak for yourself,” said Avery, taking another bite of slaw. “I really wanted the food. You know when it’s Carl Jensen, there’s no expense spared.”

Dani glanced down the embankment, toward the trees by the lake. She couldn’t see Bastian, which must have meant he was well and truly hidden away.

“It’s pretty cool here, actually,” Avery went on. “I don’t think our team morale is suffering.”

“Yeah, well, it might be soon,” Dani said. “We’d better head down there, or Bastian is gonna get mad. He already kind of is. We did come here for his plan.”

Avery pointed her fork as Dani. “Then how come you’re up here procrastinating, too?”

It was a good question, but Dani shrugged it off. The truth was, she was afraid that Bastian’s plan to reach the light beings wouldn’t work; but she was more afraid that it would. And then what if they couldn’t share their memories, like they’d planned? What if they couldn’t convince the light beings to spare their planet? What then? All this to worry about before Glow in the Park. These aliens had thrown a real wrench into Dani’s plans.

Lola wiped her hands on a paper napkin and stood, taking away her and Avery’s plate and dumping it into the trash.

“You’re right,” she said. “We shouldn’t upset him. Let’s be brave and go.”

Together, the three girls headed down to the water’s edge, Radar trotting ahead, leading the way to the dense copse of cedar trees until Lola spotted Bastian ahead.

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