Sweet Susie Sweet by Katie Graykowski

Author:Katie Graykowski [Graykowski, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary romance
Published: 2018-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 9

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Susie blew her whistle to get everyone’s attention. She could see how coaches could get drunk on power by having a whistle. “I now declare the official start of Potato Cannon Wars.”

Everyone cheered. The little girl standing to Susie’s right wore a penis balloon-animal hat that was complete with what looked like two giant balls, one over each ear. Uncle Milton had called it a flower. The only ones who saw it as a flower were he and the little girl, and hopefully the other children. The girl clapped and jumped up and down.

“If everyone will make their way to the side yard, we’ll present the winners of the Potato Cannon Beauty Contest first.” Susie hobbled on her crutches over to the side yard.

Dane followed closely at her side. Everyone had just accepted that he was cousin Stewart. In fact Marla Cantor, the mother of one of her students, had told her that she didn’t know what everyone was talking about because cousin Stewart didn’t look a thing like Dane Bennett.

Susie stopped in front of the rows of potato cannons. “The award for Most Ingenious Potato Cannon goes to Gianna Larson and her team, the Cannonettes, for their space shuttle cannon!”

There were whoops and lots of clapping.

Dane riffled through the blue ribbons she was holding and came up with the right one. He hung it on the fake booster rocket of the cannon that looked like the space shuttle.

“The award for Prettiest Potato Cannon goes to Eva Shoop and her team, the Spud Sisters, for the cannon that looks like a unicorn!” Susie clapped along with everyone. She loved all of the excited anticipation.

Dane found the right ribbon and looped it over the unicorn horn.

“The award for Ugliest Cannon goes to Chase Docker and his team, the Potato Blasters, for the cannon they named the Holy Grail!” She clapped as Chase ran up to Dane to get his ribbon.

“Yes! The Docker legacy continues.” Chase’s older brother, Mark, punched the air as the whole family whooped. They had five boys, and four out of the five had won ugliest cannon. The only reason it wasn’t five out of five was because Teddy Docker was about to start middle school.

“Finally, before we start firing the cannons, the award for Most Likely to Misfire goes to Luke Hogan and his team, the Luke Fry-Walkers, for their lightsaber potato cannon!”

“Go, Luke, go!” his classmates chanted.

“Now, on to my favorite part, the firing of the potato cannons.” Susie jumped up and down on one foot. She hobbled over to a table Dane had set up earlier since she couldn’t walk quickly to each cannon and fire it. Instead, he would bring them to her one by one.

“Okay, starting with the Most Ingenious Potato Cannon …”

Dane brought the space shuttle to her. She stuffed a potato down the barrel, hooked the cannon up to the air compressor, and waited for the pressure to reach 60 psi. She turned off the compressor, picked up the space shuttle, and yelled, “Fire in the hole.

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