Me and Miranda Mullaly by Jake Gerhardt

Author:Jake Gerhardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

13

Valentine’s Day

CHOLLIE

I know it sounds hard to believe, but I think Billy’s more excited than I am about the dance. He gives me all kinds of great advice as I get dressed.

Here are Billy Muller’s Steps to Success.

Step 1: Keep an eye on Miranda at all times. But don’t smother her, and make sure she doesn’t see I’m watching her.

Step 2: Get out on the dance floor. Chicks love dancers.

Step 3: Request “Stairway to Heaven” from the DJ. When the DJ plays my song, I ask Miranda to dance.

Step 4: Always smile and look like I’m having a good time. But don’t smile too much, or she’ll think I’m crazy.

Step 5: Be sure to dance the last dance with Miranda. Apparently, a girl will always fall in love with whoever the lucky guy is she’s dancing with at the end.

When we drive up to school, he starts going over the steps all over again, which is pretty helpful. Boy, the university lost a good guy when they tossed out Billy.

“Remember,” Billy says as we pull up to the school, “you request ‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin. Got it?”

“‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin,” I repeat.

Billy looks at me and smiles, then he takes a little bottle of cologne from the glove compartment and rubs some on my cheeks.

I hop out of the car but Billy calls me back and gives me some breath mints. He thinks of everything.

As I’m walking up to the school I’m feeling really good about myself. The basketball game feels far in the past. In fact, the school newspaper had a great article about the game today and I wasn’t even blamed for the loss. And the whole thing with the student council and the toilet paper doesn’t bother me at all anymore. In fact, I think it’s kind of funny, and that puts a big smile on my face when I walk into the school.

The first person I see is Duke Samagura. I thank him and shake his hand because he was the one who wrote the really nice article in the school newspaper that didn’t blame me for the loss. What a good guy.

Then I go right to the gym. It’s really kind of cool, being in school at night and seeing everyone dressed a little nicer. And it’s sort of mysterious going down the steps into the gym because there are balloons and streamers and red hearts, and you wouldn’t even think you were going into the gym except for the smell that everyone’s always complaining about but that I kind of like.

Music’s playing, and it’s so dark I’m afraid I’ll trip over someone. No one’s dancing yet and when I look across the dance floor, I see the light from the other side of the gym. The gym is split in half like last year. I look over on the other side and they need a fifth guy for the next game, and I figure this would be a great way for me to blow off some steam and not bother Miranda Mullaly too much.

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