Unforgettable by Loretta Ellsworth

Author:Loretta Ellsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Walker Books

When It’s Okay to Cheat

It’s three o’clock and I’m supposed to be heading to meet Bob Schraan, the media guy, to show me how to use the camera. Instead I’m going to detention. It’s not fair.

On my way to the room, I spot my book. It’s crammed next to a locker, spread facedown. I pick it up and brush it off. The cover looks as though it’s been smashed in a car door, but at least no pages are missing.

Room 121 is on the first floor, near the senior lockers. Luckily, no seniors are around. Upperclassmen are such jerks.

“Hey,” Eddie calls out. He’s standing at an open locker two doors down from the detention room. “You on your way to meet Bob? I’ll show you where he hangs out.”

“Um, sorry. I can’t meet him today. Something came up.” I glance at the door to the detention room.

Eddie’s eyes shift from me to the door. “Detention? You? What’d you do, forget your homework too many times?”

“I knocked some guys down.”

Eddie’s eyes widen. “That was you? I heard someone made a flying leap into the defensive end of the football squad. You got a lot of nerve, kid.”

Detention doesn’t seem so bad now. At least Eddie is impressed.

“ ’Course, you’re gonna need a bodyguard from now on to make it through the halls without getting killed. The football team is tight with one another.”

“Oh.” The first-floor bathroom episode flashes through my mind. Those guys were probably friends of the ones I tackled. “Do you know any? Bodyguards, I mean.”

Eddie laughs. “None that you’d want to be associated with. My advice is to maintain a low profile. Hey, just keep coming to the Environmental Club. No one even knows we exist.” He nods toward the door. “How long you in for?”

“A week.”

He shakes his head. “That’s not going to work. The deadline for the competition is in three weeks and we want to submit the video. You haven’t learned the equipment yet.”

“A camcorder? How hard can it be?”

“Harder than you think, moron. It’s a digital video recorder. We planned on you helping with the editing, too.”

“I’ll talk to Halle tomorrow and explain.”

“It’s not just Halle. It’s all of us. We may be a joke at school, but we take our club seriously. We want a decent video, not some lame junior-high version. You haven’t seen how people die of lung problems and cancer, and …” He stops and points a finger at me. “If you’re just in this because you’re hot for Halle Phillips, then stick to tackling football players and forget the Environmental Club.”

Eddie’s mood changes faster than the Minnesota weather.

My face heats up at the mention of Halle. “I want to be in the club,” I assure him.

Eddie shifts his backpack onto his shoulder. “If you say so.” But his voice is filled with doubt. “Tell you what. I’ll get you the user manual to read in detention. It’s not the same, but it will help. Then maybe you can meet with Bob before school.

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