Press START by Clancy Teitelbaum

Author:Clancy Teitelbaum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2015-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Instead of going to lunch after the bell rang, Suzanne headed to the main office. She wasn’t surprised to see Mikayla sitting there as well. Brit must have texted on her way to receive sentencing. Whatever Operation Fuck Gretchen was, Suzanne hoped it was worth it.

Lunch was nearly over when Brit emerged. Gretchen strode out of the office with a triumphant smirk right after her. She paused to give Mikayla and Suzanne a nasty glare before strutting off down the hallway, her heels clicking on the linoleum.

When Brit went to the bathroom during homeroom, she went to the one in the girls’ locker room. There was guaranteed to be no one else in there as everybody had to be in homeroom.

Among other things, Brit happened to know the master combination for all the lockers in school. It was a handy code to know. Half the student body owed Brit for unlocking their lockers after they forgot the combination. But the master code was useful for slightly less upstanding purposes as well.

First, she opened up Gretchen’s gym locker. It was easy to find, as it stank of perfume and was filled to bursting with cosmetics. After clearing a space, Brit balanced three two-liters of Diet Coke in the locker. Brit never paid attention in science class, but every kid knew what happened when you combined Diet Coke and Mentos. Brit slammed Gretchen’s locker shut as foam erupted out of the bottles.

Gretchen had stopped by her locker during second period only to find everything inside covered in a layer of sticky crud. Her cheer outfit looked like it had been used to clean up the cafeteria floor. Literally screeching from rage, she had stalked up and down the rows of lockers, interrogating everyone in the vicinity.

Brit’s prank was almost perfect. Almost. She didn’t realize the foam would erupt into other lockers, damaging their contents as well. And although there were no security cameras in the locker rooms, there were plenty cameras leading into the gym. Brit was the only student who entered the locker room during homeroom. Add that to her long history of misbehavior and the administration had enough circumstantial evidence to give her a month of detention.

But that wasn’t enough for Gretchen. Her laptop, her car keys, and plenty of other “irreplaceable” belongings were damaged beyond repair. Her parents threatened the school with legal action unless a more severe punishment was administered. Considering their active role in the PTA and skittish around mentions of a lawsuit, the school upped Brit’s punishment to a month of detention and thirty hours of community service, to be fulfilled by picking up trash.

“Look on the bright side,” Mikayla said. “Now we both have to pick up after her royal pain in the ass.”

Brit flipped Mikayla the bird. “Thank god we have the TII,” Brit said. “I don’t know what I’d do if I was forced to spend all my time in this shitty reality.”

When Suzanne didn’t reply, Brit gave her a concerned look. “We can still go to Io, right? You didn’t lose the helmets or anything?”

“No,” Suzanne said.

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