The Rivalry of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell

Author:Chelsea M. Campbell [Campbell, Chelsea M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Golden City Publishing
Published: 2020-01-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I BREAK INTO AMELIA’S so-called treasure chest as soon as I get home from the studio on Monday. The studio where I was not on Gordon’s show, thankfully, though I did make a point of asking him if he’d talked to his producers yet about me coming on as a supervillain, but he was conveniently on his way to talk to someone else and couldn’t be bothered to answer.

Right.

Anyway, Amelia, Other Damien, and Alex are all downstairs in the kitchen—Other Damien’s teaching them both how to make those stupid chocolate chip pancakes—so the coast is clear when I sneak into Amelia’s room and over to the trunk in the corner. I’m careful not to step on any creaky floorboards, though I don’t have them memorized in her room like I do in mine, in case it gives away my location. Kat’s not here to pick the lock on the trunk, and I don’t actually want to zap it, both because I don’t want to break it and because that might be kind of noticeable. Plus, I know Amelia keeps the key in the jewelry box on her desk, and it only takes two seconds to steal it, open the trunk, and grab the broken portal device. Okay, maybe more than two seconds—especially if you count the time it takes to put the key back—but it’s still super quick.

I stick the device in my backpack and then head downstairs. I can hear everyone talking and laughing in the kitchen, like other me and Amelia really are BFFs or something, not to mention Alex, and they either don’t notice or don’t care when I leave, because nobody questions me.

Which is great. Exactly what I wanted. Because the last thing I need is one of them figuring out what I’m doing and trying to stop me. So them all being distracted by being a perfect family or something is actually really convenient for me right now, even if it also makes me want to zap other me into the next dimension.

I take the car to Mom’s house without telling Amelia, even though neither one of us is supposed to take Tom—a.k.a. our shared car—without checking with the other one first. A policy that lasted about five seconds before both of us started breaking it.

Mom answers the door with her arms folded and her lips pursed in this super judgmental look that I don’t like, especially when it’s pointed at me. “I hope you’re here to apologize.”

What’s with everybody expecting me to apologize all of a sudden? I screw my eyebrows up at her. “For what? Don’t tell me you’re mad that I got Riley fired, too.”

“Damien, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Well, I don’t know what you’d be mad about, then.”

Her nostrils flare, and I think I catch a flash of lasers in her eyes, just for a split second. “How about my own son humiliating me in front of the whole world?”

“Um.” I open my mouth to address that, but I’m not sure which incident she’s talking about.

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