Wickedpedia by Chris Van Etten

Author:Chris Van Etten
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

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Cole hitched a ride with his dad and arrived at school an hour before class began. He went straight to Drick’s classroom. Drick wasn’t there, but Gavin was. “Talk to him yet?”

“I thought he’d be here. You haven’t seen him?”

Gavin’s face crinkled. “Isn’t he, like, up with the farmers?”

It was weird, Cole thought. “Maybe he’s out today. Think we got a sub?”

“Rise and shine, Cole. Dreamtime is over. You sent him an e-mail last night, right? Did you get a read receipt?”

“I didn’t check.”

“So let’s go find out.”

They forgot all about Drick’s computer when they found Drick. Arriving at the history department, they saw a rust-colored stain streaking from the door down the aisle and ending at his desk. Someone stood there, between them and the desk chair, hunched.

“Hello?”

Chetley turned, his face the color of dull concrete, his hands gloved red.

“He was like this when I came in. I swear. I tried to save him. But he was already gone.”

Drick’s body was slumped in his chair. Cole wondered why he was wearing a bib. Then he realized it wasn’t a bib. It was blood. Congealing blood coated the front of his shirt and jacket. His head rolled to one side with the added weight of the foreign objects clustered together, protruding from his mouth, broken wide open.

Red pens.

Red pencils.

Red Sharpies.

And everywhere there were papers. Assignments and essays and tests and reports. All labeled with a giant red grade, the same red grade that was carved into Drick’s forehead.

F.

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