Five Times Revenge by Lindsay Eland

Author:Lindsay Eland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 38

Adam

The next afternoon, after school, Adam sat on his bed, re-rereading the article on the prank that he’d pulled up on his computer. He should leave for Perk’s soon, right now really.

He read it one more time, wishing the description and the diagram would change.

Pulleys? Gutting the car? Steel rope? Three groups of five or eight people? Scaffolding?

He sighed.

There was no way.

Last night at the restaurant he’d been so starry-eyed with how their prank with Hill had turned out earlier in the day, and everyone’s hidden talent, that he’d seen the picture of the car on the rooftop and knew that that was what they needed to do.

He hadn’t even looked at the article. He’d seen the picture and diagram and that was all. It was big enough to get back at Hill and Parmar, big enough for Tommy.

He typed into his search bar “car pranks” and hit Enter.

Fill a car with marshmallows. Cover it with sticky notes. Park it somewhere else.

No, no, and definitely no.

Nothing would be good enough unless it was Parmar’s Shelby Cobra on top of the school roof.

There was another article about a car on a roof. They’d got it up there using ramps.

Adam leaned back and closed his laptop. He wasn’t quite sure how that would work, but still, it proved that they could do it a different way. And Ray had looked at the article last night. “We’ll figure it out.” That’s what Ray had said.

And they had Dutch and Pearl, too.

“Yeah, we’ll figure it out,” Adam said aloud.

He gathered up a thick pad of paper, the calendars he’d written up for Perk to look at, and his laptop, then stuffed them into his backpack along with clean underwear for the morning. The only thing he needed now were pencils. Perk should have them, but for some reason his family seemed to have things like exotic cheese, two hot tubs, eight bedrooms, and a personalized embossing stamp for books, but they didn’t have things like pencils, Post-it notes, or milk.

He walked into the kitchen where his mom and dad were already fixing dinner. Both of them were wearing—as they did almost every Friday night—their Mr. and Mrs. aprons they had bought each other for Christmas last year. By the smell of it, they were making something with crab.

The perfect meal to disappear for.

Adam hated crab.

“You heading over to Perk’s now?” his dad asked, sprinkling salt into a pot of boiling water.

Adam smiled and rifled through the junk drawer. “Yeah. We’re going to work on a project for school.”

“Oh yeah,” his mom said. “Is everyone in the group going?”

“I don’t know.” As far as he knew right now, it was just him, Perk, and Tommy.

“Should I invite everyone over?” Perk had asked after lunch. “What do you think?”

Adam had nodded. “Sure. We can start planning now that we know what we want to do. And Tommy would love having everyone over, I’m sure.”

“Yeah,” Perk said, and smiled. “He would, wouldn’t he? I’ll think about it.

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