Top Ten Clues You're Clueless by Liz Czukas

Author:Liz Czukas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH $10,000

1. Get 20,000 candy bars when they’re two for a dollar.

2. Never have to beg your parents for gas money for the rest of high school.

3. Pay for half a semester at Harvard.

4. Buy a used car. (But you should definitely check if the driver’s-side door opens first.)

5. Throw yourself one of those insane Sweet Sixteen parties like on TV.

Gabe is the first to recover. “What?”

“It’s just an estimate, but if today’s collection was any indication, it could have been that much. It was at least a few thousand.”

“Are you kidding me?” Sammi half rises from her lotus position on her chair, then sits again. “Do you know what I could do with ten thousand dollars?”

“If I had ten thousand dollars, I wouldn’t be working at this place, that’s for sure,” Gabe says.

“Ten thousand dollars is still below the poverty line,” Micah reminds him.

“Yeah, but it’s a hell of a lot of pizza-and-beer money when you’re living in a dorm.” Gabe rubs his hands together. “Unbelievable. Well, now you know for sure I didn’t steal it because if I did, I would be gone right now.” He stands, reaches across the table, and palms Micah’s head. “I swear on the head of Micah Yoder.”

Sammi smirks.

“I’d still work here,” Micah says. “I like it.”

Gabe makes a frustrated sound and drops back into his seat. “Of course you do. But believe me, I’m only here because I have to be.”

“I’d still be here, too.” Sammi sighs. “Ten K would be nice, but it doesn’t get you far in California.”

“What’s in California?” I ask.

“Anything,” she says. “Anything that isn’t this boring-ass town. The sun, for starters. Doesn’t have to be California, even. I don’t care.”

Gabe nods slowly.

I look at Tyson. “What would you do with the money?” From driving him home, I know he doesn’t exactly live in the wealthiest area.

“College,” he says without hesitation. “It’s all for college.”

I smile. “Me too. Do you know where you want to go?”

“State,” he says. “I want to be a veterinarian.”

My heart melts. As if he’s not already near perfect. “That’s amazing!” More words threaten to bubble out of me, but for once I manage to control myself.

“Companion, Food, or Exotic?” Micah asks, which earns him more than one strange look.

“Dogs and cats, I guess.” Tyson looks embarrassed. “What is that? Pets?”

“Companion,” Micah says.

“I’m guessing you’re going to go to some kind of genius school?” Gabe asks him. “Harvard or something?”

“Probably something more like MIT or CalTech,” Micah says. “I like the hard sciences a lot.”

“I’m shocked,” Gabe says dryly.

“Not me,” I say. “I’d rather read a book than do math. Any day.”

“What about you, Zaina?” Gabe asks.

She shakes her head slightly. “I don’t know. I suppose I’ll find something I like in college.”

“So you’re going?”

“My dad wants me to,” she says, then looks down with a slight laugh. “It’s unlike him. So modern.”

“You don’t want to go?” asks Micah.

“No, I do.” She bites her lip. “I’m not sure what I want to study, though.

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