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A few minutes later, the third song that Matt and Bridget had danced to ended, and everybody applauded. Both Matt and Bridgett looked around but there was no sign of Travis.
The school's cafeteria was a little unusual. It actually had a large deck with several outdoor picnic tables on it. Matt suggested they grab some snacks and go there since it was a warm evening and they all wanted a break from dancing.
Bridgett had to excuse herself to go to the lady's room, but she told the others to go on ahead and get a table. She would catch up with them in a few minutes.
They all got themselves a small plate of snacks and headed up to the cafeteria deck. there were already several other couples there with the same idea but fortunately they were still able to find an empty table.
They sat down together and began to eat and talk. A few minutes later Bridgett, with her own plate of snacks, joined them.
"Mmm," said Evie as she munched away on one of the mildly spicy chicken poppers from her plate, they were a type of chicken nugget that Matt's chef mother had seasoned, breaded and fried to perfection, "These are so good! I love your mom's cooking, Matt!"
"How did you know those were my mom's?" said Matt surprised.
"No one else has this recipe." Replied Evie
"Yeah," grinned Risa popping one in her mouth, "We'd know it anywhere."
"They must be popular, alright!" nodded Bridgett, "The whole tray was gone by the time I got there, so I didn't get any!"
Matt looked puzzled.
"What, how?" he said, "She just put out a fresh tray of them. There was enough to feed an army!" he turned and looked back through the open door toward the buffet table.
"Wait a minute!" he exclaimed, "She literally means the whole tray!"
"You mean somebody swiped the whole tray right off the table?!" said Brian
Matt nodded,
"That's exactly what I mean, but who?"
"I've got a hunch!" snapped Risa getting mad, "Follow me!"
They all jumped up and followed her. She led them down the hall and around the corner. Halfway down this next hallway was the door to the teacher's lounge. As soon as they turned the corner Matt could smell the unmistakable aroma of his mother's fresh hot chicken poppers!
Evie saw Matt's angry scowl. She leaned over to him and whispered.
"You smell your mom's missing chicken poppers, don't you?"
Matt nodded.
"It looks like Your sister's hunch was right." He replied
Risa stormed up to the door of the teacher's lounge. The tv inside was blaringly loud with what sounded like a sporting event of some sort. She tested the door knob, the door was locked, so she started banging on it."
"Hey!" snapped another voice, "What are you kids doing here?!" it was Principal Martin coming toward them.
"Somebody stole a whole tray of Mrs. Ellison's chicken poppers off the buffet table before anyone else could get any!" said Evie, "and they're in there, take a sniff if you don't believe me."
Mrs. Martin sniffed the air and her face darkened to a scowl too. She immediately reached into her pocket, pulled out her keys, and unlocked the door.
As soon as the door opened everything became clear.
A bunch of jocks including Travis, Bridget's date, were in the room with the tray of chicken poppers on the coffee table in front of them. they were eating the poppers while they were watching MMA on pay-per-view no less! Judging from the money on the table, it looked like they were betting on the fights too!
Travis was actually standing on the couch throwing punches and yelling at the tv.
"Break his arm, hit him in the head!"
"WHAT, IN THE NAME OF COMMON SENSE, IS GOING ON IN HERE?!" yelled the normally easy going Principal loud enough to be heard over the blaring TV. The boys all jumped and turned around looking like the proverbial 'deer in the headlights!"
"It was his idea!" said one of the boys immediately pointing at Travis
The principal grabbed the remote from one of the jocks, shut off the TV, and leveled a glare at Travis.
"Mr. Howard," she said her voice now quieter but somehow sounding even more deadly, "I can't wait to hear your explanation for this!"
TO BE CONTINUED…please review
What will the principal do to these boys?
What will their parents do?
And what made Risa suspect what the boys were doing?