Chapter 4
Lee heard the overhead speaker go off as she closed her locker door and found both Holger and Cam there and raised a brow in question.
"Happy Fruen Gen Gousen." Holger said.
"What he said, but I call it Friday." Cam added.
"Oh, jah, and happy Friday too." Holger revised.
"So what does Fruen Gen Golf ball mean?" Cam questioned.
"Nothing, Holger pull joke and make up word." Holger replied and laughed. "Funny, jah?" he asked before doing a back flip and landed on the rail on his crotch and stiffly fell off it onto the ground. "Fruen Gen Gousen." He repeated in a strained voice.
Cam let out a chuckle before punching Lee in the arm. "Yo dude, if Friday don't make you smile, that deaf should have. What up bro?"
"This whole prank e-mail thing, it doesn't make sense." Lee said frowning. "Why would our old missing principal send out e-mails telling people to pull pranks?"
"Essay, your brain is fried, put the detective work on si-i-i-immer, we got a fiesta to go to bro." Cam replied.
"Lee's female friend Brandy is having super disco party time." Holger said striking a pose.
"You know, the kind we used to pretend weren't cool but were secretly jealous of?" Cam asked.
"Guys, I'm grounded, remember?" Lee questioned as she tried not to scratch at her still bandaged forearm. That cat really sharp claws.
"But dude, you gotta go." Cam replied. "What if super cool status has a self-life?"
Lee shook her head, but heard the metal footsteps coming up from behind and knew what was coming next. "Lee Ping, it is precisely 15.16, you are now officially one minute late for detention private." He said.
Lee started backing away and held onto the strap of her pack nervously. "Uh, I was just on my way." She said before sprinting down the hall.
"Not fast enough." Barrage said and from his metal palm came a next that caught the retreating redhead and dragged her off to the detention room and was dumped in there before he left.
Lee got off the ground and dusted herself as saw Biff was also there and she wondered just what he did this time as he seemed to be in detention all the other times she'd been here. She looked suspiciously at the cat that was now rolling across the boy's desk and he saw this.
"Don't worry, he's gotten his claws trimmed." He said.
Lee nodded before taking her seat and scratched the cat under the chin, the feline purring in response. "You know, you're kinda cute when you're not sinking your claws into my skin." She said sardonically as she let her eyes fall half-closed and smirked. She saw Biff raise a brow and her face twisted in confusion. "What's with you?"
"Nothing, it's just…that face you made…was kinda…" Biff made a roundabout gesture with one hand. "…hot."
Lee stared at him for a long moment, her brain trying to wrap the word 'hot' and describing her both being in one sentence. No one ever said anything like that to her, then again most people still had a hard time grasping the fact she wasn't a boy, so it might not count as much as she thought it did.
She wasn't good with emotions, so she did the one thing she always did when she was sure someone was saying something so absurd about her. She laughed. "That's actually funny, you thinking I'm hot."
"I didn't say you were hot." Biff shot back.
Lee's laughter abruptly stopped and glared at him. While she wasn't a vain girl, how she dressed being a very obvious testament to that point, she did not like it though when her looks were being slighted at. "Are you saying that I'm ugly?" she asked in dark voice.
"What? Did I say you were ugly?" Biff questioned and Lee backed off. "You're pretty okay? All I meant was that expression you pulled was…alluring is all."
Lee raised a brow at this, still finding this hard to believe, but started to feel her face heat up as she realized that even though it was offhandedly said, Biff had called her pretty. She looked down at the edge of her seat to avoid letting him see the blush. "So, did you hear about Brandy's party?" she asked offhandedly and wanted to slap herself at how this could be taken.
"Are you…asking me out?" The other teen questioned.
Lee blushed harder. "N-no! I was just making conversation, and it's not like I can go." She said quietly.
The rest of the detention went by in an uncomfortable silence as Lee fidgeted in her seat, her thoughts whirling as she felt like she was going to explode from tension and her feelings were almost desperate for some outlet. And when the door slammed open after the hour and Barrage yelled 'Dismissed!' before leaving that she actually jumped and fell out of her seat and onto the floor.
"Klutzy much?" Biff questioned smirking as he reached down to help her up.
Lee rolled her eyes as she accepted his help, and took in a sharp breath as she was helped up before her emotions found an outlet of their own and she moved her face forward to snap her lips down on his. She pulled back a second later and her face was on fire before she sprinted out of the room faster than she thought she could run.
'I can't believe I just did that!'
Lee tossed a ball up into the air as she laid back on her bed and kept thinking about the kiss earlier. She face flushed just thinking about it, and she wasn't stupid enough to think that this wouldn't have any repercussions. He could have been freaked by the back she kissed him and wouldn't wanna be…were they friends, or something of the like?
Either way, she had probably just blown it or put a massive strain on whatever they had. Not to mention the fact she'd been so freaked out herself by what she'd done that she couldn't tell whether she liked it or not.
She heard her mother's voice just outside her room and was talking to her dad. "We're going to the opera and you have to stay awake."
"That wasn't part of the deal." Her father replied. "And what about Lee, and her weekends?"
"We can talk about it on the drive." Her mother said.
Lee heard a screen pop up on her computer and she put the ball down before sitting up and saw Cam wearing fake facial hair. "Dude, you like the goatee, or the soul patch?" he asked as Lee sat down at the computer. "Chickitas love the facial hair bro."
Another screen popped up, this one showing Holger wearing a mud-mask. "Holger dream of this night since he was a small boy en hauffen."
"Sorry, guys, I can't go, remember?" Lee reminded them. "My dad's on my side, but…" she trailed off as her mom's voice rang out.
"You can't wear sweat pants to the opera."
"You know my mom." Lee finished.
The mud on Holger's face suddenly crumbled away. "But Holger just put the waxing on his under pits; the ladies love the smooth smellings." He said lifting his arm to show the wax strip before pulling it off and letting out a cry of pain. "Ow!"
"Homes, you gotta go, if you don't go we can't get in, you're our hand stamp dude." Cam said. "If not for you, have fun for me, for Holger…"
Lee's cell rang from its charger and she picked it up in confusion. "Brandy?" she said aloud before taking the images of her friends off the screen to keep the conversation private. "Uh, hey?"
"Hey yourself!" Brandy shouted. "Like seriously, why are you on the phone when you should be here?"
"About that, see I'm grounded and-" Lee tried to explain before Brandy interrupted her.
"And this is a way important party!" Brandy yelled. "It's my first event as an official Glamazon; Kimmie is all over me." She paused before there was a muffled conversation before she came back on the phone. "You get your but over here like 10 minutes ago, or I'll tell Barrage that you've been sneaking out of detention! Yeah, I said it, click!" she said before the phone went off.
"Man, I can't let Brandy rat me out." Lee said to herself as she looked over at her open window and assorted items on the floor. "Hmm." She hummed as an idea came to her before looking down at her cell. "And Cam and Holger are right, I do deserve to have some fun." She said before turning off her light and packing stuff under her covers to make it look more like her shape and put a baseball cap at the top of the sheet and pressed a button on her alarm clock before going out the window and landing on the tree branch.
Lee made her way down the tree and to the bus stop, and when she was on she sat down low in her seat and looked at the split screen showing her friends.
"It's back on? Dude!" Cam exclaimed. "Mucho like awesomeness!"
"Holger continue the waxing then jah?" Holger questioned. "Jah." He said before pulling off another wax strip.
"Lee." Her mother said from the phone and the redhead's eyes widened as she pressed down to let the camera of her room come up. "Lee!"
Lee yawned fakely. "Hey mom, I was so tired I went to bed early."
"We'll be back by 11." Her mother said.
"Have a great time." Lee replied as her mother closed the door.
Lee let out a relieved sigh before the bus soon came to a stop and she got off the bus before walking over to the building where the party was, finding Cam also arriving at the entrance. "What happened to the facial hair?"
"Just like my personality, I'm going to go in smooth as silk." Cam replied.
Lee chuckled. "Okay slickster." She said before looking around. "Where's Holger?"
"Aw, don't worry bro, now come on." Cam said pulling Lee into the building where they saw the Matheletes trying to get into the party.
"Hey, you're that prank kid," the security guard said, "I saw a picture of you on the net. Here for the party? Come on in, top floor."
Cam and Lee continued on their way into the elevator and Cam looked over at the Matheletes. "Don't worry kids, you can all read about how awesomely amazing the party is when I send out updates, bye." He said as the elevator closed and when it arrived at the top floor the room was darkened and spotlights moving around the room and Lee was immediately found by Brandy.
"There you are!" she said in exasperation and gave her a scrutinizing once over. "And what are you wearing?"
"My comfortable clothing." Lee replied dryly.
Brandy grabbed Lee by the arm and the redhead looked at Cam for help, but he only shrugged and she rolled her eyes. "Kimmie is already on my grill about everything else, if I let her see that my BFF is all sloppy-looking."
Lee blinked and looked down at her clothing. "My clothes aren't sloppy." She protested, but was pulled upstairs before being shoved in a bedroom and Brandy went around the room picking things out before pushing them into Lee's arms. "I expect my clothes to be back on Monday, washed, pressed, and clean." She said before leaving.
Lee looked down at the clothing and her face twisted up as she put the blue material in her hands that made up a skirt. She never liked wearing skirts and looked down at her pants before deciding to leave the pants alone as she walked into the bathroom.
And when she came out and joined Cam back downstairs, she held her rest of her clothing in hands. "Hey."
"Hey-" Cam's greeting was changed to a choke as she looked at Lee. "Bro, is that you?"
Lee was wearing her pants, but that was the only thing of her old outfit she had on. She had a blue skirt on over her pants and dark red tank top that left her tattoo and bandage still visible. Her hair wasn't in its usual style either, it was all flattened down and most of her hair was taken up by the red streaks and the layered black at the bottom while her bangs remained the same.
"It's me." Lee replied. "How do I look?"
"Bro, you look like a girl." Cam replied.
Lee resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "Yes, thank you for pointing that out." She said dryly as she leaned against the wall and soon Cam moved away from the wall.
"We gotta start mingling, go with the flow." He said. "We're finally here, and we're chilling in a corner? That's not the way Cam rolls. Hello, Lee?" he asked waving a hand in front of Lee's face as she stared at the man using a chainsaw to carve the ice sculpture of Brandy's nose.
"You call that beak a nose?" Brandy questioned. "Make it smaller. Crown orange gingerette?" she asked offering Kimmie a glass and the blond took one sip before moving it away in disgust.
"No, ice? Is this a drink or soup? Maybe being a Glamazon really isn't your speed." She said before she and the other two girls moved on.
"Leaping, there you are!" Brandy yelled and gasped in horror as she her pants. "Why are you still wearing those?"
"Because there is no way I'm wearing a just a skirt with no pants." Lee retorted as Cam began pushing the girl over to the other one.
"Well, at least you actually look like a girl now instead of sloppy-looking." Brandy huffed before walking away.
Lee rolled her eyes and she and Cam went over to a couch and saw Cam texting something on his phone. "Heheh. I just texted everyone that there were robot butlers here, good one eh?" he chuckled before an actual robot butler came over. "Whoa!" he exclaimed before chasing after it.
Brandy came over and sat down beside Lee. "So…"
"So…"
"Uh, awesome party, robot butlers? Heh, nice touch." Lee said.
"Here's the deal, I really have to impress Kimmie, so I need my BFF to have my back, kay?" Brandy asked in a more subdued manner.
"We cool about the Barrage thing?" Lee asked.
"Brandy, these pillows are too poufy, and the lame music." Kimmie said.
Brandy looked over at Lee. "You deal with her, I'll deal with the music, please?" she asked and Lee nodded and they both got up.
Lee went over to the blond and her posse before plastering on a smile. "Hi Kimmie." She said and the blond looked at her in some annoyance. "It's Lee Ping, Brandy's BFF." She explained.
Kimmie started circling her with narrowed eyes. "Hmm, bangs are bit messy, and the skirt over pants is so five minutes ago, not to mention that tattoo and bandage." She said and Lee wanted to sigh in frustration. "But you do seem to have some potential not to look like a fashion failure. Just dress in co-ordinating colors and less like you got dressed in the dark."
Lee bit her tongue to stop her retort and reminded herself that while Kimmie have her 'advice' she was too busy to criticize the party. And when Kimmie was done with her 'advice' she and her posse moved on, leaving Lee by the speakers and Cam came over and elbowed her lightly.
"Time to mingle and smooze like a player." He said. "Watch and learn." He said as a blond was walking passed them. "Yo Brad my man, what up, what up, what up?"
The blond saw the bandage that Lee had been sporting all day and the tattoo band around her arm as he seemed to recognize her. "Lee, big fan, and you look great."
Lee flushed as she rubbed the back of her head while the blond moved on and now that the redheaded girl had been identified as Lee, more people started to walk by them.
"Great party." A boy said.
"Thanks." Lee replied.
"Awesome party, Lee." A girl said.
"No, you're awesome." Lee replied and put her hands on her sides. "You know, maybe this was a good idea."
"Chaz Monorainian, anything to say for Monday's party recap?" The boy asked pushing Cam away.
"This is going to be seen in school?" Lee questioned as she started to get panicked. "Where my mom can see it?"
"So, Ping, just how amazing is this party?" Chaz questioned and Lee looked over at the corner where Steve and two other of his jock friends were. She smiled at him and while she wasn't counting on him to recognize her seeing as most had never seen her actually dress like a girl, she was though counting on some male courtesy to happen. He pointed at Chaz and she nodded. "The camera's getting the good side of the back of my head, right?" Chaz questioned.
"Back it up folks." Steve said elbowing Chaz out of the way as Lee moved with the trio. "No pictures."
"Thanks Steve." Lee said and the taller teen looked down at her sharply.
"Ping, is that you?" Steve asked perplexed. "You look like a girl!"
"Thank you, I've been getting that a lot lately." Lee replied dryly as she walked over to her friend Cam.
"Look, there's Tina, now go give her your exclusive on the prank." He said pointing over at Tina.
"I can't risk getting caught on camera." Lee replied.
"Then text her and tell her to meet in your VIP suite man." Cam replied.
Lee took out her cell and frowned. "I think Holger's in a situation." She said calling him back.
"Help me Lee, I am so scaried." Holger said upon answering.
"Where are you?" Lee questioned.
"Holger take garbage fun slide through dark tube, now where to go?" Holger asked.
"Look for an elevator and go to the top floor." Lee replied. "I'll try and find a map and call you right back."
Holger let out a gasp on the other line. "The crazy cleaner people."
"From school?" Lee asked in disbelief. "What are they doing here?"
"Excuse me; Lee Ping wants to know what you are doing here." Lee heard Holger say and slapped her forehead and let out a yell. "Sorry, may please I call you back?"
Lee ended her call as she sat down on the steps in front of the punch and Cam walked over. "So, is Tina coming over for the Lee-exclusive?"
"Uh…" Lee raised a brow before she was cut off.
"Leaping, where have you been?" Brandy yelled.
"Seriously?" Lee questioned standing up. "My name is Lee Ping; it's a name, not an action." She said before storming away.
"Yo, yo, tell her girl." Cam said.
"Ain't nothing but the truth."
"Testify!"
"In case you missed the update in Glamazon outside friendships, the Glamazon rules it, kay?" Kimmie said.
"Man that felt good." Lee said as she walked across the dance floor. "Excuse me, Ping coming through." She said and accidentally bumped into Tina. "Hey."
"Hi Lee, pretty impressive party." Tina replied.
"I don't know; give me rec room pizza party any day." Lee replied. "Remember those?"
"Of course, your orders a mean Hawaiian, not to mention she made you wear those overly girly dresses." Tina teased.
"Tell me about." Lee muttered embarrassedly.
"And now look at you, Lee Ping, at the cool party." Tina said.
"Yeah, and so are you." Lee replied.
"Yeah, I'm covering it for the school news; the social event of the season." Tina said. "So, Cam promised me and exclusive with you about the prank."
"Oh, yeah, well…" Lee replied and saw Chaz and the cameraman coming over. "Whoa, gotta split!" she said turning the other way and made her way through the dance floor.
"Anyone seen my BFF?" Lee heard Brandy grate out before Lee opened the back stairwell and leaned against.
"Ah." She said softly before looking at the map on the side of the wall and called Holger up. "Holg, I found a map; where are you?"
"In stinky room, many dirty files." Holger said and gasped. "The Tatzelwurm?" he said and yelled out in surprise before the line went dead.
"Holger?" Lee asked worriedly. "Holger! Tatzelwurm?" she questioned before ending the call and heard the door open and Cam came out. "Dude, Holger's lost in the basement with the Tatzelwurm or something."
"Just sending out another update to all my peeps who couldn't get in." Cam replied. "You really dissed Tina back there."
"What? No, Chaz and his stupid camera were coming over." Lee replied.
"Nah, nah, you did the right; don't want anyone else to get the scoop on Tina right?" Cam questioned. Lee frowned and shook her head. "Let's get em to crank up the music, Holger's party sense will pick it up and he'll be here in like no time."
A short while later, Lee and Cam were on the dance floor, but only Cam was actually dancing as Lee was too nervously to actually to anything other than stand there.
"Come one, bust a move, bro." Cam insisted.
"I'm more of a stander than a dancer." Lee replied.
"No BFF rules the Glamazon friendship." Brandy said coming over and dragging Lee over to the center stage where they were in view of the other Glamazons. The girl glared at the redhead through her sunglasses. "Dance; or Barrage gets a voice mail, tonight."
Brandy started dancing as Lee awkwardly followed along with it and the DJ, Lynch spoke over the microphone. "Let's bring it down." He said as the lights lowered and the music got more 'romantic' as the other students started pairing off.
"You'd better not expect me to dance with you for this type of song." Lee muttered.
Brandy huffed and crossed her arms. "I wasn't going to say that." She said and looked up at the folded back curtains and her jaw dropped.
"What is it?" Lee asked as a sinking feeling formed in her stomach.
"You kissed Biffy Goldstein?" Brandy questioned and Lee's eyes widened.
"What; where did you hear that?" Lee questioned as a light flush crossed her face and Brandy pointed upwards and Lee looked behind her and her felt her face burn brightly as she saw that the picture of her kissing Biff in detention earlier was on a projector for the whole room to see. She knew that even when the image was gone the damage had already been done. It also made her wonder just who took that picture.
Lee saw the cameraman pointing the camera at her and she gasped before Brandy looked at her with crossed arms. "Explain that." She said referring to where the picture had previously been.
"It was…an accident?" Lee questioned more than stated as she really didn't know what had been going through her mind when she decided to kiss her detention buddy that she sorta, maybe had crush on.
Kimmie came over with the rest of her posse. "The hot tub's too hot, and you're out of designer cupcakes. You call this a party?" she scoffed before walking away.
Brandy sighed in frustration and looked at Lee with an expression that clearly stated she didn't believe her. "To be continued." She said before turning away. "Coming Kimmie!"
Lee looked over at the DJ table as the music changed back to upbeat and narrowed her eyes as she made her way over, only to get stopped by Tina.
"What was with that?" she asked referring to the image. "I never knew you liked Biffy."
"Well, I kinda do." Lee replied quietly. "And…he called me pretty earlier."
"I know you Lee; you wouldn't just kiss some guy if he called you pretty." Tina retorted.
"Look, we both know that I'm not that good with expressing my emotions, and I just didn't know what else to do." Lee replied and ran her hand through her hair. "And knowing me I probably just wrecked it all. Oh, he's going to kill me on Monday." She groaned.
"You're gonna have to talk to him about this." Tina replied wisely. "You know that right?"
Lee frowned and she knew her friend was right. "Ya, I know."
"Now it's time to rip up the dance floor with the song you've all been waiting for: Lee Ping's prankster number 1!" Lynch said over the microphone. "Can ya dig it?" he asked putting the record needle on the record and green light washed over the room.
Lee frowned. "Prank song? This song?" she asked pointing vaguely to the overhead speakers and grinned slightly. "It is a rad song." Her grin faded as she saw the spaced out look on her friend's face. "Uh, Tina? Uh, you wanna, dance?"
"You want to dance?" Tina questioned in a trance-like voice.
Lee shrugged and started to sway before raising her arms. "Let me hear ya whoop, whoop!" she said closing her eyes smiling. "Let me see ya get down." Her eyes snapped open as she noticed that everyone had done what she said and looked around startled. "Weird. Uh, get on up." She said and everyone stood up. "Get on…down?" she asked and they dropped to the floor. "Go…crazy?" she asked and everyone began running away while flailing their arms and started wrecking the room. "Stop, stop! Just…dance." She said and everyone began to do just that.
"What's going on?" Lee asked aloud and looked over at the DJ table before noticing the camera pointed at her. "Nu uh, give me that tape." She said and she was handed the tape. "Okay, this is way weird." She said and the power suddenly went out, all the students groaned in confusion before the lights and music came back on they went back to dancing.
"This is brought to you by the good people at Green Apple Splat! It's just the splattiest, everyone drink some." Lynch said over the microphone. "Now." he added and everyone went over to the fountain.
Lee raised both brows and caught Tina by the shoulder. "Tina, what's going on?" she asked and Tina growl at her, causing the redhead to back off. "Whoa!"
"Who is responsible for this?" Barrage's voice came blaring through the speakers and the lights faded back to normal and the music faded as well.
"What was all that about?" Lee asked as Tina grabbed her head.
"What was what about?" Tina asked confused.
"If it isn't local hero, girl of the hour, Lee Ping." Chaz said as the camera was pointed at her.
"Give me the tape." Lee said glaring before her eyes widened. "I-command you."
"Ohh, you command me?" The cameraman asked mockingly.
"This just in." Chaz said pushing Lee off to the side. "Has Lee Ping's newfound popularity gone straight to her nogen?"
"I don't get it," Lee said bewildered to herself, "was it Barrage's voice that broke the spell?" she heard banging on the door before a bunch of other students came charging in and headed over to Brandy and Cam just as Kimmie arrived.
"This party is pretty awesome." She said. "I may have been wrong about you. You're perfect for the Glamazons."
"Really?" Brandy asked excitedly and gave Cam his cell back. "Do more!"
Lee gave a glance to the speakers and made her way over to the DJ table. "Lynch, right? Where'd you get that song?"
"Cyrus, from the Dudes of Darkness slipped me that dozy, said it was top of the pops!" Lynch replied.
Lee put a hand to her chin. "Cyrus? Really? Notice anything weird about it?"
"If you mean get feet on the floor, then yeah!" Lynch said crossing his arms before flaring them out. "It's crazy weird!" he said before offering her a can. "Green Apple Splat? It's the splattiest."
Lee made a passing motion that said no and saw her friend going by. "Tina, hey, wait up." She said and the other girl stopped. "Look, if you still want an interview…"
"Yes, I would like that interview." Tina said, but Lynch came back over the microphone.
"Back by popular request, here is again, brought to you by the only drink that will make you splat-tac-tac, Green Apple Splat!" he said as the lights went green again.
Lee saw Tina's expression go spacey again and groaned. "Not again." She said before her eyes widened. "Holg!" she said and dialed his number on her cell and heard his odd sounding voice mail. Lee saw the whole room suddenly go nuts and soon Barrage's voice came over the speakers again and snapped everyone out of it.
"I make it!" Holger said coming over and bringing Lee into a hug. "But late, must be makings up on the dancey time."
"Past 11? Oh no." Lee said putting her hand on her head. "I gotta jet or I'm so busted." She said heading to the door while getting her clothes she'd left by the exit and looked back at the crowd. "Ping out!" she said and they all cheered before taking off.
"Come on, change; in a hurry here." Lee said furiously pushing the button to make the light turn green with one hand while holding her clothes in the other.
"I can't believe you fell asleep." Lee's eyes widened as she heard her mother's voice right beside her.
"What did you expect, it was a production of Sleeping Beauty." Her father replied.
"Mom, dad?" Lee said questioningly before she could stop herself and ducked down behind the bench to avoid being spotted. She watched the light turn green and the SUV speed off. Lee stood back up and began running the rest of the way and when she made it; she had to stop short as her mom's car was in the parking lot. She made her way back up her tree while carrying her clothes in her teeth and wen in through her window and into the covers, pulling them up to her neck as the door opened and she peeped out from under her lashes before opening them with a smile "Hey, mom, how was the opera?" she asked as she tried not to sound to breathless. "Dad stay awake?"
"He tried," her mother replied smiling, "good night daughter. Next week, maybe you can go to the movies."
"Really?" Lee asked before yawning. "That'd be great. Good night." She added as she closed her eyes and waited for the door to close and sat back up before going over to her computer and bringing up a search on the Dudes of Darkness. "Did you guys create that song and set me up?" she questioned before her phone vibrated and Cam's voice came over from the other line.
"Check the news, girl." He said chuckling. "You're like, famous."
"You are Lee King," Holger said as his voice came over the phone as well, "of disco party."
Lee clicked her phone off before bringing up the news footage on her computer to see Brandy talking to an anchor.
"Well, it to celebrate and my new BFF Leaping, I mean Lee Ping. She was just here." Brandy said and Lee let out a gasp of horror.
"If you just tuned in-" Lee turned off the volume on her computer and heard it coming from down stairs.
"-live at a party in the presence of prankster Lee Ping!"
"No!" Lee groaned.
"Lee Ping!" his mother yelled from downstairs.
Lee slapped her forehead and thought about all she had to deal with now. 'I was so close to being home free.'
