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angel9220042004: It's all right, you can guess out loud if you want to! You've never heard of paying to ride a school bus? Huh, we've had to do that since elementary school to take a field trip...anyways, keep reading!
Chapter Seven: Shocked and Betrayed
The Friday after the Literary Rally arrived, and everyone wanted to hear what all happened involving Prickly.
"Well, he DID make us pay bus fees," Gretchen started. "But then after the testing, he took us all out to Ryan's Restaurant and bought us all lunch!"
"Of which I approve of one hundred percent," Hustler Kid added, remembering the perfect steak he had.
"He bought you lunch?" T.J. asked, scratching his head. "If I didn't know better, I'd say he was trying to suck up to us and make himself look like a good guy."
"You mean, he was sorta bribing us?" Gus asked, feeling ashamed that he had eaten that delicious sundae he had had for dessert that day.
"That's really low," Vince said. "What kid in his right mind would refuse free food?"
"This is starting to get insane," Spinelli pitched in. "He does all this stuff to us, then he tries getting us to like him by treating us to free food?"
Nobody got to comment because the bell rang to get into class. T.J. grabbed his Algebra books and turned only to run into some delivery person.
"Oh, excuse me," he apologized quickly. "Hey, what's in the box?"
"A bunch of NAVY lanyards," the delivery man answered. "Like the one you're wearing."
T.J. glanced down at his lanyard. Funny, he never noticed the NAVY slogan printed on them. He wondered why the NAVY would be sending the school a bunch of lanyards...The delivery guy seemed to read his mind.
"The NAVY has donated a bunch of their lanyards to this school since this whole nametag thing of yours started," he explained, shifting the box to his other knee. "I guess as some sort of advertisement to teens."
"Whoa, wait up," T.J. interrupted him. "The NAVY donated these? So, they were free?"
When the delivery man nodded, T.J. felt a huge rush of betrayal. If the lanyards had been given to the school for no charge, then why were kids paying for them? He thought deeper into it. At five dollars per lanyard for each kid, that was...over a thousand dollars at the least. Plus with the costs of the many replacements that kids had been buying, that was even more money in the bag.
"Holy palooka!" he gasped. "THAT'S how he got the money for all that expensive desk stuff!"
Leaving behind a confused delivery guy, T.J. ran off to class, eager to tell everyone what he had just figured out.
AFTER SCHOOL AT KELSO'S
The whole class was having another meeting at Kelso's that day to discuss what T.J. had found out. Needless to say, everyone felt the same sense of betrayal that T.J. had felt earlier.
"He's robbing us!" Ashley T cried. "He's actually robbing from us!"
"Wait until my lawyers find out about this," Ashley A added, and some other kids put in some angry remarks as well.
"Lawyers nothin'! He's gettin' a face-to-face conversation with Madame Fist!" Spinelli shouted, shaking her notorious fist in the air.
"Guys, will you please calm down?" T.J. asked, trying to project his voice over everyone's. "We're all mad, but we don't need to let this thing get to us."
"Too late," Spinelli muttered.
"Teej is right," Sammi agreed. "We need to act rationally about this. Adults are not going to take this seriously, I'm sure."
"Yeah, and we can't exactly make a big scene over a bunch of lanyards," Vince put in. "If we're going to expose Prickly, we need to have more than some stolen five dollar bills."
"What about the auditorium issue?" Upside-Down Girl suggested.
"Actually, the principal has every right to move our graduation place to our own school," Gretchen stated. "It is OUR school, you know."
"And what about our Honor's Cords?" Ashley B mentioned.
"I don't think there's much we can work with on that," Hustler Kid told her.
As everyone argued, nobody noticed that one of their class members was sneaking out...out to do some secret dirty deeds.
Whoa, the principal is stealing money from the kids! Scandalous! Hm, who's the kid that snuck off to do "dirty deeds" I wonder? Keep reading to find out!
Spinelli Woods, Esq: Hee hee, I know, I love playing rock paper scissors! Keep reading!
angel9220042004: It's all right, you can guess out loud if you want to! You've never heard of paying to ride a school bus? Huh, we've had to do that since elementary school to take a field trip...anyways, keep reading!
Chapter Seven: Shocked and Betrayed
The Friday after the Literary Rally arrived, and everyone wanted to hear what all happened involving Prickly.
"Well, he DID make us pay bus fees," Gretchen started. "But then after the testing, he took us all out to Ryan's Restaurant and bought us all lunch!"
"Of which I approve of one hundred percent," Hustler Kid added, remembering the perfect steak he had.
"He bought you lunch?" T.J. asked, scratching his head. "If I didn't know better, I'd say he was trying to suck up to us and make himself look like a good guy."
"You mean, he was sorta bribing us?" Gus asked, feeling ashamed that he had eaten that delicious sundae he had had for dessert that day.
"That's really low," Vince said. "What kid in his right mind would refuse free food?"
"This is starting to get insane," Spinelli pitched in. "He does all this stuff to us, then he tries getting us to like him by treating us to free food?"
Nobody got to comment because the bell rang to get into class. T.J. grabbed his Algebra books and turned only to run into some delivery person.
"Oh, excuse me," he apologized quickly. "Hey, what's in the box?"
"A bunch of NAVY lanyards," the delivery man answered. "Like the one you're wearing."
T.J. glanced down at his lanyard. Funny, he never noticed the NAVY slogan printed on them. He wondered why the NAVY would be sending the school a bunch of lanyards...The delivery guy seemed to read his mind.
"The NAVY has donated a bunch of their lanyards to this school since this whole nametag thing of yours started," he explained, shifting the box to his other knee. "I guess as some sort of advertisement to teens."
"Whoa, wait up," T.J. interrupted him. "The NAVY donated these? So, they were free?"
When the delivery man nodded, T.J. felt a huge rush of betrayal. If the lanyards had been given to the school for no charge, then why were kids paying for them? He thought deeper into it. At five dollars per lanyard for each kid, that was...over a thousand dollars at the least. Plus with the costs of the many replacements that kids had been buying, that was even more money in the bag.
"Holy palooka!" he gasped. "THAT'S how he got the money for all that expensive desk stuff!"
Leaving behind a confused delivery guy, T.J. ran off to class, eager to tell everyone what he had just figured out.
AFTER SCHOOL AT KELSO'S
The whole class was having another meeting at Kelso's that day to discuss what T.J. had found out. Needless to say, everyone felt the same sense of betrayal that T.J. had felt earlier.
"He's robbing us!" Ashley T cried. "He's actually robbing from us!"
"Wait until my lawyers find out about this," Ashley A added, and some other kids put in some angry remarks as well.
"Lawyers nothin'! He's gettin' a face-to-face conversation with Madame Fist!" Spinelli shouted, shaking her notorious fist in the air.
"Guys, will you please calm down?" T.J. asked, trying to project his voice over everyone's. "We're all mad, but we don't need to let this thing get to us."
"Too late," Spinelli muttered.
"Teej is right," Sammi agreed. "We need to act rationally about this. Adults are not going to take this seriously, I'm sure."
"Yeah, and we can't exactly make a big scene over a bunch of lanyards," Vince put in. "If we're going to expose Prickly, we need to have more than some stolen five dollar bills."
"What about the auditorium issue?" Upside-Down Girl suggested.
"Actually, the principal has every right to move our graduation place to our own school," Gretchen stated. "It is OUR school, you know."
"And what about our Honor's Cords?" Ashley B mentioned.
"I don't think there's much we can work with on that," Hustler Kid told her.
As everyone argued, nobody noticed that one of their class members was sneaking out...out to do some secret dirty deeds.
Whoa, the principal is stealing money from the kids! Scandalous! Hm, who's the kid that snuck off to do "dirty deeds" I wonder? Keep reading to find out!