Operation Baby-Sitter by Matt Christopher

Author:Matt Christopher [CHRISTOPHER, MATTHEW F]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316095334
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

Get in there and help! his brain scolded him.

But Bundy’s feet didn’t move. Not even when Mary started knocking the broken glass out of the window did he offer to lend a hand. Instead, he turned around and went back into the house.

Bundy couldn’t wait to leave for his soccer game that afternoon. Mary was watering the flowers around the house when he banged out the kitchen door.

“Need a ride?”she asked.

“I’m walking with Dewey.”Bundy waited for her to say something more — about the window, about how he’d been acting, something.

But she just nodded and went back to watering the flowers. Bundy stared at her back for a moment, then headed down the driveway.

When he picked up Dewey, he was in a bad mood. Dewey asked him what was wrong. But Bundy couldn’t tell Dewey without telling him about the baby-sitter, too. And he wasn’t ready to do that.

By the time warm-ups were over and the game against the Rangers was under way, Bundy’s mood was pure black.

“Come on, Brant,”he snapped after the fullback missed a tackle.“You’ve got to help Bucky protect that goal!”

A minute later, he yelled at Amanda Caler for a bad kick.

But it wasn’t until the Rangers scored and he threw up his hands, saying,“Oh, great, there goes the game,”that Coach Bradley benched him.

“Until you cool down,”the coach said sternly,“you’re out.”

Bundy was miserable. He’d never been taken out of a game so early before. Knowing he’d let down his coach and team didn’t help.

It can’t get any worse than this, Bundy thought dismally.

Then suddenly, it did.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar figure sit down in the stands. Mary was at the game.

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