The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

Author:Stacy McAnulty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

I can’t explain it, but I trust that Levi will keep my secret. Unlike Windy, he rarely talks about other people. I know I should get it over with and tell her, too. She’s my best friend, and she shares every detail of her life with me. Like last night, she told me about the time she peed her pants waiting in line for a roller coaster. And it wasn’t a story from when she was 5. It happened last year. I’d want to forget something like that, not admit it. The problem is, she also tells me about everyone else. From her mom—who needs to wax a mustache—to which kids repeated kindergarten. There’s no controlling information once it’s in Windy’s head. No vault. No lock and key. No secret combination.

I’m also worried she might be hurt that I’m keeping something from her.

Luckily, Windy and I have plenty of other stuff to talk about, like the musical Wicked (her newest favorite), her birthday party, and global warming. She watched a video with a starving polar bear last weekend, and the next day she insisted on walking to school. She only made it about ¾ of a mile—just to the next bus stop.

It takes me 2 more visits to the Pet Hut to finish entering all the data into the computer and collecting it for my own purposes. Levi and Windy join me on Monday. They play with dogs while I stay in the office. Wednesday, I go alone to complete my work. The numbers are fascinating. I share them with SquareHead314 and Numberlicious, but they aren’t impressed. They say my sample of 242 dogs isn’t large enough to make any definite conclusions. But it’s not like I’m going to go to another animal shelter to collect more data.

I don’t visit the Pet Hut just for the numbers. I also like to see Pi. He still doesn’t have a kennel to call his own. So I try to make his under-the-desk doghouse more comfortable. I bring him an old sweatshirt to sleep on. It’s green and yellow (like the numbers 14 and 102) and too small for me. But while I’m working on the computer, he prefers to sleep on my lap, which is gross and adorable.

I think our Cougar Cares Project is going great. If it were up to me, I’d even say we’ve done enough; their adoption files are all digital and up to date. We can keep visiting the Pet Hut to enter any new paperwork—and to check on Pi. But Windy still wants to make a difference. On Thursday night, we have a group phone call to see how we can change the world. Our revised project plan is due tomorrow.

“Okay, guys. What are we going to do?” Windy asks, in charge as always. “We need some good ideas, like right now.”

“Let’s just have a bake sale, raise some money, and get it over with,” Levi says.

“Do you bake?” I lie back on my bed.

“No.”

“Think bigger,” Windy demands.

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