Archvillain by Barry Lyga

Author:Barry Lyga [Lyga, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-38889-4
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

“I have to have the laser pointer,” he told Erasmus at lunch. For the second day in a row, Kyle wasn’t eating with Mairi. She was still angry at him. At least she wasn’t sitting with Mighty Mike — Mike had been summoned by the FBI to fly to Seattle and rescue some bank robbery hostages, so he wasn’t even in school right now.

Occasionally, Mairi would look over at Kyle, who sat at a table in the corner by himself, murmuring to Erasmus. With his earbuds in, everyone thought he was singing along to a song.

“You could just go buy one,” Erasmus reminded him in a very snarky tone of voice that Kyle didn’t think sounded like his own at all.

“I don’t have any money. I spent it all on the components to upgrade you, if you recall.”

“Money well spent,” Erasmus said. Erasmus was very self-absorbed, Kyle realized. That had to be a flaw in the music player’s original circuitry. After all, Erasmus had been patterned on Kyle’s own personality, and Kyle was very humble.

“You could always swipe some money from your mother’s purse,” Erasmus suggested. “Or grab her credit card and order it online.”

“I don’t have time to wait to have it delivered,” Kyle told him. “Mighty Mike Day is tomorrow. And besides, if I have to steal, I’d rather steal from Miss Hall than from my own mother.”

“You’re too sentimental,” Erasmus sniffed. How could a machine sound so disapproving?

“Sentimental? I just don’t want to steal if I don’t have to.”

Erasmus said nothing, but his silence was somehow disapproving.

“Look,” Kyle said, “I have to live with my mother. If she catches me stealing, it’s more complicated than a teacher catching me.”

“Can I suggest you don’t get caught?” Erasmus said in a tone of voice that communicated his belief that Kyle was incapable of doing so.

“Shut up,” Kyle said, and turned Erasmus off.

One of these days, Erasmus would figure out how to turn himself back on, and then Kyle knew he would be in trouble.

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