Opposites Attract Chap. 2

French was the only class Maddie was willing to goof off in, because it was a dumb subject and our teacher was even dumber. I didn't like Foreign Language, but since Maddie decided to take French, I might as well have taken it too. My other option was Spanish.1

"Everyone open up your textbooks!" Madame Landelin shouted. I popped a second piece of gum in my mouth, pretending to reach for my book. Maddie was on her third piece of gum and cracked it. Madame Landelin swiveled around in her obnoxious spinning chair and layed a duranged gaze on the two of us. 2

"Was that GUM I heard?" She screamed in a crazy French accent. If it was one thing she hated, I was chewing it. I watched as Maddie strategically hid the gum between her top teeth and the roof of her mouth. Trying not to look guilty, she slumped back in her seat and her shoulder-lengthed blonde ponytail swung out like a pendelum behind her. 3

When nobody replied to Madame Landelin's question, she got up and turned to write on the board. Maddie took out a fourth stick of gum, tipped her head back, and drop it in her mouth. Finally, after awhile of chewing, we secretly took to long, sticky strands of gum, attached them together, and stuck them under the desks in the shape of the letters S,K, and O. 4

This was Freddy "Mr. I got a 40 on the math test's" genious idea. Normally, Freddy is an IDIOT, but I totally agreed with this idea, and there was no way anybody could catch us. For the rest of French Class, we finished writing our message, in a gross, obnoxious way.5

After school, I dumped my back pack at my house, grabbed my skateboard, and headed over to Derek's house. He has a huge tree house that we hang out in almost every day after school. By us, I mean the 4 of us 7th graders in the neighborhood, me being the one girl. What a bunch of crap I get for that. But I really don't care because my neighborhood kicks butt. In the summer, we all skateboard in the street, in the winter, we throw snowballs at cars and bail before they call the cops on us. In the fall and spring we think of diabolical schemes to annoy the heck out of our teachers and the school. So basically, it's really fun.6

Today we were meeting in Derek's tree house to dicuss the gum plan, which was the best we've had so far. I invited Maddie to come, since she did help out in French, but she turned me down. Unlike me, Maddie is kind of uncomfortable around guys. Not that they don't like her and she doesn't like them, it's just that she's an only child and lives in a rich people house neighborhood. There aren't any kids living there except her, which kind of sucks. And she's an only child.7

I hauled myself up the last rung of the ladder, which was placed 6 inches too tall, thanks to Derek's AMAZING building skills. Everybody was already there. I sat down in bean bag chair facing the small whiteboard on the wall. Freddy was standing up there, mapping out the school. Derek and Kevin, who was taking up a LOT of the bean bag chair, were chucking a soda back and forth, ready to explode it out the window. Finally, Freddy started talking and pointing.8

"Okay peoples, here's the deal. We've covered nearly all the UAs, the ones we still need are Senora Ragthol's room, which Kevin COULD do if he didn't keep getting sent out. The other ones are Mr. Dartzsands' art room, Miss George's music room, and the Health Room."9

"Maddie's in Mr. D's, I could ask her." I volunteered. I saw out of the corner of my eye Derek start to blush. I think he has a thing for Maddie. 10

"Okay, anyone else we know?" Freddy asked, staring at Kevin who was shaking up a second can of soda.11

"Dem and I have Health tommorrow." Derek shrugged.12

"And so does Maddie." I murmured, and watched Derek blush again. This time, Freddy noticed.13

"Oh god Derek, you LIKE her don't you? Ha ha I'm so good!"14

Derek blushed again, and tried to change the subject. "So who do we know has Music?" Nobody responded for a second, then Kevin spoke up.15

"We could bribe someone. I got 10 bucks."16

"I have 5." I noted, throwing my money into the middle.17

"Sweet!" Freddy agreed. "Alright my peeps, here's the deal..."