Hurricane Power by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2007-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

chapter fifteen

“You guys gone crazy?” His eyes were wide.

“They pulled a knife on you. What else were we going to do?” I was more than a little proud that they had just backed off. I wasn’t going to mention that Jennifer had made me stand up to them. “And I wanted to talk to you.”

“Man, you got any idea who they are?”

His words had this fast, cool rhythm.

“No. I’m new around here. My name is David Calvin.”

Jennifer stepped up beside me.

“And this is Jennifer Lewis,” I said.

I stuck out my hand, waiting for him to shake it and introduce himself, even though I already knew his name.

He ignored my hand. He didn’t introduce himself.

Instead, Carlos Pelayo groaned. “Watch your back. That’s all I can say. Watch your back. Nobody messes with those guys and gets away with it.”

I shrugged. It wasn’t like they would kill me or anything. I’d just make sure I stayed in places where there were other people around.

I dug into my pocket and pulled out some money.

“Here,” I said. “This is yours.”

He scrunched up his face, making it into a question mark.

“From the other day,” I said. I explained the thing about the water pistol. I hoped he would find it funny.

He didn’t laugh. And he didn’t take the money.

“I don’t get it,” I said. “It doesn’t matter that I didn’t really pull a gun on you?”

“You don’t get it,” he said. “This isn’t just about a few dollars. You think maybe you’re the big hero, chasing me down to give this to me. But what you’ve done just makes things worse for me. You think I won’t have to answer to those guys later?”

“Answer for what?” I asked.

He wiped all expression from his face.

“Nothing,” he said. “Now, if you don’t mind, I got to go.”

“Look,” I said. “If I can help you...”

“You’ve done enough,” he said. He didn’t mean it like a thank-you.

Jennifer finally spoke. “Carlos, my dad is a teacher here and the coach of the track team. He’d love it if you came out and ran for the Hurricanes. Maybe he can help—”

“The two of you are crazy. All I want is for you to leave me alone. You think maybe you can do that for me?”

I was slow to answer. So was Jennifer.

He took our silence to mean yes.

He walked away.

“Oh,” I said to Jennifer. The money was still in my hand. “That sure didn’t go the way I planned.”

“You did your best,” Jennifer said.

I brightened. “Yeah, at least I got rid of the other two. And in a hurry.”

Jennifer shook her head. She held up a little plastic tube.

“Before you start thinking you’re Superman,” she said with a smile, “you’d better get one of these. You’ll need it if they show up again.”

I squinted.

“What is it?” I asked.

“Just breath spray,” she answered with a grin.

“Oh,” I said, “so I can attack their bad breath?”

She laughed at my confusion.

“No,” she said, “but it also looks like mace. While you were playing tough guy, I walked up and held it behind your head.

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