Rebels With a Cause by James Patterson & Beverly Johnson

Author:James Patterson & Beverly Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Max said good-bye to Tisa and Siobhan.

“Your gear is already stowed on board,” Charl told her. “We knew we’d be shipping out sometime tonight after the party. The arrival of Dr. Zimm just accelerated our schedule. The pilots collected all your belongings from Siobhan’s house.”

“They put my suitcase on the plane?” asked Max.

“Yes,” said Isabl. “All your souvenirs are safe.”

“And you need to add another one,” said Siobhan. “I plucked this for you when we were in that sheep meadow.”

“Then I showed her how to press and dry it,” said Tisa. “We went with the technique of pressing it between two sheets of wax paper in a heavy book—followed by a quick spritz of Mrs. McKenna’s hair spray.”

“It’s a four-leaf clover, Max,” said Siobhan. “May it bring you the same sort of luck that found me and my family the day I met you.”

“Thank you,” said Max, giving each of the girls a tight hug. After all they’d been through together, Siobhan and Tisa felt like sisters to her. Max might’ve been an orphan, but she was definitely starting to build a family of her own.

“You got anything for me?” asked Klaus.

“No,” said Siobhan, “but I’ll have my mam send you some of those sausages you love so much once you lot are settled in your new location.”

“Awesome!”

The jet door opened and unfolded its staircase.

“Time to head out,” Isabl said to Max and Klaus. “I’ll need your phones.”

“Why?” wondered Max.

“In case Lenard is tracking them,” said Charl.

Max and Klaus handed Isabl their phones. She placed them into foil-wrapped, signal-blocking pouches.

“Kind of extreme, don’t you think?” said Klaus.

“Not if there’s a leak,” said Max.

Klaus shrugged. “Whatever. Be careful with that,” he told Isabl as she slid his phone into an aluminum sleeve. “It’s brand new.”

Mr. McGregor and a police officer from the village arrived to pick up Siobhan and Tisa.

Klaus, Isabl, Charl, and Max climbed aboard the small jet and strapped themselves into their seats. Max waved good-bye through her window to Siobhan and Tisa. As the jet lifted off, she also silently said “Good-bye” to the lush green landscape of Ireland.

“So where are we flying?” asked Klaus.

Isabl checked her watch. “I’ll let you know in an hour.”

“How long is the flight going to take?”

“Twelve hours.”

“Is there food in the galley?”

Isabl nodded.

“Good. Wake me up when it’s time for breakfast.”

Klaus fluffed a pillow, pulled up his blanket, and quickly fell asleep.

“You should get some rest, too, Max,” suggested Charl.

“I will,” she said. But she was too mentally jazzed to nod off like Klaus just did. (He was already snoring.)

First, she hadn’t completely processed the encounter with Dr. Zimm and his humanoid helper, Lenard. All that stuff he’d said about “redeeming” Dr. Einstein’s quantum physics mistakes. “You are his true heir, Max,” he’d said. “You can take the theory the great Einstein couldn’t quite grasp and bring it to life!”

While Einstein knew that the math behind quantum mechanics worked, he couldn’t accept the weirdness of it. “Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But

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