That same day after school Alex, Peter and Jan walked home with new friend, ex-bully, Jason. Which we learned his last name is Smith, and he's in the drama club.
"So in study hall I took the liberty to write who would hate and or jealous of Alex and why," said Jason.
"And?" Peter asked.
"And, I got them all here," Jason replied pulling out a folder with the papers.
"Great, we'll look over them at home," said Alex.
Back at the house the four went up into Alex's room looking through the papers.
"Jerry Richards?" Alex said with surprising reading the title of the paper Jason wrote. "Why would he hate me?"
"If I was meant to answer that," Jason began. "I wouldn't have a cramped hand for writing the reason why,"
"Okay, okay," said Alex. "I just, hate reading,"
As Alex was reading of the jealousy of Jerry Richards she couldn't help but snicker.
"What?" Jan asked leaning into read.
"The reason why this kid is jealous of me is because people laugh at my jokes and not his," Alex replied.
"What's the big deal on that?" she asked.
"Well, maybe if you actually heard his jokes," Alex replied.
"Yeah seriously," Jason added. "He's in my Math class he tried telling a joke to a couple people and called him a rip off Alex or saying that Alex is funny, it's actually funnier listening to the put downs than Jerry's jokes,"
"So Jerry could have done it, because everybody in his Math class likes Alex, and not him," Jan said writing this down at Alex's desk, keeping track on each person.
"Right," answered Jason.
"Alright, the next kid is Daniel Young," announced Alex.
"And what's his deal?" Jan asked.
"That he thinks I'm a nerd," said Alex rolling her eyes. "That's not helping us, Jason!"
"And how is it not?" Jason asked demandingly.
"Because Daniel is a bully and thinks a lot of people are nerds, for someone to throw a brick through someone's window, it has to be from pure anger," Alex replied.
"Yeah and besides, Daniel only eggs nerds' houses," Peter added. "It happened to me last year,"
"Alright so there's no use in adding Daniel Young," said Jan as she turned around erasing his name from the list. "Next one, Alex,"
"Uh, Simon McDonnell," Alex read.
"That British kid?" Peter asked. "Why does he hate you for?"
"I guess because I hit him for teasing Bobby for being short and Cindy for her lisp, tossing his Englishy dry jokes around that I finally had enough from that rich snot nosed preppy English brat that I hit him in the face in front of everyone and he literally ran home crying," Alex stated from her memory, not what Jason had wrote.
"So, when you punched me, it wasn't the first time?" Jason asked.
"No, it was, but punching you wasn't the last time," replied Alex. "And then he to use his brain by forming a plan to hurt me but I accidently, did something that wasn't in his plan, and thankfully ruined it and came back on him,"
Peter began to laugh. "Like in the cartoons,"
Alex laughed along. "I know, right!"
"Hard to believe they're related," Jan said sarcastically. She turned around rolling her eyes at the two and wrote down Simon McDonnell for a suspect.
"So it could be Simon, because he's angry for making him look like a fool, hitting him, and foiling his supposedly master plan," Alex said with seriousness.
"And don't forget the fact that he he hates Americans," added Peter. "Especially goofy Americans like you,"
"So it could be a very good possibility," said Jason.
"Alright, who's next?" Jan asked.
"Alright, the last one," stated Alex. "This is Sarah Parker,"
"Sarah Parker," Jan repeated. "I know her,"
"Well, Sarah hates me I guess I replaced her spot on the first string for the girls' basketball team," said Alex.
"Yeah, like that Warren Mulaney, with Greg. The same situation!" added Peter. "Remember how sore he was with him!"
"Of course," Jan said turning around to write her name down.
"So basically there are three people here that are probable suspects," said Alex.
"But who?" Peter asked.
"I guess were going to all have confront them," replied Jason.
"But how?" Peter asked again.
"Well, I know Sarah Parker has the biggest crush on Peter," Jan began.
"She does?" Peter asked cluelessly.
"Yeah, she's always drooling over you in History class," replied Jan. "If you pretended you were interested in her, I bet she'll tell you anything,"
"But what about Rachel?" Peter asked.
"Don't worry, I clue Rachel on everything tomorrow," replied Alex.
"And what about Simon?" Jan asked.
"Well," Alex began. "If Jason pretends to be a hardcore bully again, and tells Simon he won't beat the stuffing out of him if he tells him, then we'd get our answer, and this works out because he's a coward,"
"I don't think I can do that," Jason began. "I took anger management and-"
"You can do it, Jason," said Alex. "After all, you are in the drama club,"
"True," added Jason. "Now what about Jerry Richards?"
Peter got a grin on his face. "I have an idea," he said. "I know Jerry has the hots for Jan, and if Jan does what I do to Sarah to Jerry, he'll bound to spill the beans,"
"Oh no, no no, no way!" Jan said. "Jerry is so gross!"
"Jan, I thought you'd do this little favor for Alex, I thought Alex was your friend," said Peter.
Jan began to feel bad. "I'm sorry,"
"Don't guilt her Pete," Alex said to Peter. "Guilting people gets people nowhere, you don't have to if you don't want to Jan, Jerry is a coward too so we'll get Jason to do the same thing to him to what he'll do to Simon,"
"No way," said Jason. "Jerry is in my drama class, he knows that after my anger management classes I can't hurt a fly,"
"Great, now what?" Alex said stumped.
"No, I'll do it," said Jan. "I'll do it for the sake of Alex, not Peter's crummy guilting,"
"Alright, great!" Alex said with a grin. "You all know what to do? By the end of tomorrow, we'll know who busted the window,"