Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe

Author:Michele Jaffe [Jaffe, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780061973826
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-09-11T11:09:34+00:00

Nineteen

“How did you get all those people there doing that?” I asked Roxy as we were walked in.

“Flash mob. I just told everyone to be at this address at eleven thirty-eight and cheer when they got a happy-face text message. It worked great, didn’t it?” She’d been smiling, but as we got farther into the place her face changed. “Oh. Oh, no. Polly didn’t tell us this was at a roller rink.”

“She probably figured we would back out,” I said. And she might have been right. There were tables all around the edge and platforms for go-go dancers, but there was no disguising the essential fact that we were at a roller rink. For example, the women modeling the clothes were rolling through the crowds on skates.

Tom, Polly, Alyson, and Veronique joined us at the side of the rink. Tom looked at Roxy and laughed. “You’re all pale. What is it, still a little gun-shy after your last time on skates? When you and Jas and Polly did that—”

“Thanks, Tom,” I said, cutting him off. “That will be all.”

“What?” Alyson demanded. “What did they do? I bet it was stupid.”

“No way. It was great. What was it, in, like, eighth grade?”

“Sixth,” I said through clenched teeth. “The beginning of sixth. A VERY long time ago.”

“Ancient history,” Polly said, giving Tom a warning glance.

Tom ignored that, addressing himself to the rapt Evil Henches. “Roxy, Jas, and Polly decided they were going to be roller skate queens. So they put together this routine to some really cheesy song. What was the song?”

“Do you hear something?” Polly asked.

“I don’t. No one is talking,” Roxy confirmed

Tom went on undaunted. “That’s right, it was ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People. Anyway, they choreographed the whole thing in the living room, thinking that practicing in their socks on the wood floor would be just like roller skating. It had a lot of turns and fancy jumps in it.”

“Well, we had to show we were macho,” Roxy said defensively. “So we did macho things.”

“Yes, and we were wrong, and it didn’t go that well,” I said, trying to wrap it up.

Tom was having no part of it. “Jas, you’re cutting out the best part.”

“No. I’m not.”

“Yeah. The part where Polly swan dived into the audience and knocked that man unconscious.”22

“Who besides me hears the sound of Tom shutting up?” Roxy asked.

“Mmmm, I do,” Polly said. “Sounds nice.”

“What?” he said. “It was great. Everyone loved it.”

“Not as much as they loved your break-dance show,” Roxy said. “Remember that, M.C. Hernandez?”

“You can break dance?” Veronique squealed. “Show us!”

“Aren’t we here to do something?” Tom asked. He sounded a little desperate. “Something important. Find someone?”

“Don’t worry, you go show Veronique your smooth moves. I’m on it,” I said. And I was. I was scanning the crowd looking for Jack. Or trying to.

Little Life Lesson 32: Ray-Ban Wayfarers? Also not so good for trying to spot someone across a dark roller rink so you can question him about being a kidnapper.

Fortunately,

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