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Rated: 13+ · Chapter · Comedy · #1984141
Comedy / lad-lit coming of age with a hint of thrills and mystery for good measure.
PROLOGUE







“Today, there is a very real chance you may die!” announced Headmaster Carter, his chilling voice rumbling with tyranny. Clutching what appeared to be a semi automatic rifle, his eyes remained delude of any emotion, his lip scowling and cheeks expanding like he had a mouthful of explosives. Gathered in an open field, presumably so they’d be easy targets, were his audience - a very perturbed bunch of fifteen year old boys, who watched him with dread, digesting the information they’d just been so terrifyingly delivered.

“Sorry, can you run that by us again?” called one of the boys, Oscar, dressed head to toe in army greens, from near the back of the now huddled contingent, “I missed the first part.”

“You’re in very real danger,” assured Headmaster Carter, making sure his remarkably incessant gaze never faulted, glazing over each set of eyes with murderous intent.

“Why are we in danger?” called Reef’s typically casual voice, as he leaned against the only tree in a mile radius, “except of course contracting the plague or salmonella or some other deadly virus from the crap food you give us.”

“How dare you!” was Headmaster Carter’s thunderously articulated villainous reply, shaking his weapon, “there is nothing wrong with the food. Our team work rigorously to serve ration packs filled with contents that contain quality sources of vitamins and fibre”.

In silent disagreement, they stood, deciding what course of action would be suitable to take next to avoid having their young lives taken by this now mentally unstable man.

“There’s a little bit wrong with the food,” Reef continued, not so phased by the promised rapture that was impending, “especially the fruit. I think those fat guys who serve us are licking it before they give it to us.”

Lifting his gun and aiming it towards the huddling kids, Headmaster Carter’s expression finally changed to a twisted grimace of revulsion.

“Run!” he barked in rage, his eyes deep with insanity, “run like your lives depended on it.”

“Run?” queried the quivering coward Rakesh, in a fit of terror, “run where!?”

“You better start running,” promised Headmaster Carter, “as I foresee it, this has now become a hunt!”

Reef turned to face the closest person to him, Michael Leyden.

“How the hell did it come to this?”



































SEPTEMBER 1995



THE PREVIOUS WEEK





The wind lapped up the crinkled white shirt of the stationary, poorly dressed student at the exact moment two arriving students came past.

“You have a repulsively hairy belly,” commented one of them, the overly facetious student known affectionately as Reef. Simply because his surname was in fact Reef certainly took away any inventiveness of the nickname, but these kids were at an exceedingly expensive private school in the upmarket suburbs of Melbourne, dominated by prestigious uniforms and posh teachers, which tended to strip the fun from everything but the already dreary walls that locked them in.

“Come to my work life balance field day,” offered the badly dressed, hairy bellied excitable student, as Max ‘Scoot’ Parker and Timothy Reef limbered past the huge gate which dominated the entry to the enormous school grounds. The excited student whipped out a small leaflet, with an array of images and some large, poorly printed text and shoved it towards them.

“Come to your what!?” was Scoot’s exclamatory reply, snatching one of the leaflets by obligation.

“My work life balance field day.”

“Is there free food?” Scoot asked, scanning the leaflet.

“What the fuck are you doing Kenny?” Reef asked the boy, who was throwing out abundant piles of the useless leaflets to any unsuspecting student who was attempting to start their afternoon without an A5 piece of paper shoved down their throat.

“It’s for my business venture day! And also for the kindness slip we need to hand in!”

“I don’t know what either of those things are,” answered Scoot, flinging the leaflet away, letting it catch in the wind and sail into the abyss of the school grounds. By now, many more students, all in pristine uniforms, were flocking through the gates, and into the area, preparing for the coming assembly.

“You need to submit-“

“Oh shut up,” interrupted Scoot impolitely, rolling his eyes and taking foot again.

“It’s a charity!” Kenny shouted, as he attempted to stock up passing students with his leaflets.

“That’s what they always say,” Scoot muttered, scoffing in distrust, “stop cutting down the black kids, feed the hungry trees, blah blah.”

Ignoring Scoot’s dyslexic ensemble, Reef led the pair towards their destination; the astonishingly giant hall. These two had been best friends for years, which was odd considering their remarkably different personalities and interests. For a better proverb, these two were like chalk and cheese. Reef loved control. He was a likeable kid with an almost superficial charm. His calm nature and witty outset made him easy to be around, although perhaps not a feeling shared by many authoritarian figures that would flounder to complement his lack of discipline when it came to authority. He had a large family with five older siblings, his parent’s wealthy thanks to their investments in wineries nearby. It could be due to his lack of empathy towards others, or his insincerity, but he almost never seemed to be aggravated or perturbed by anything. The frustration many teachers had with him is that it seemed he just wasn’t interested in learning even though he was clearly a very smart individual with a quick wit. Unfortunately, the same could most definitely not be said about Scoot. He seemed to be worried about everything, and was sure the world was out to get him. Unfit, lazy and obscenely unco-ordinated, he was absurdly tall for a fifteen year old. While he enjoyed making fun of people, his sarcastic nature had landed him in hot water more than once. Max had been granted his nickname ‘Scoot’ way back in the days of preschool, when it was clearly evident, even then, that the simple daily tasks of walking, jumping and applying basic human limb synchronisation was a challenge for him thus the name Scoot was applied as a joke for him to simply move out of the way whenever the need to perform simple acts came about. It made it all the worse that the name was awarded to him by a preschool teacher, and not one of his peers.



And so, accompanied by the sound of chatter and an air of post lunchbreak anecdotes, hundreds of pristinely uniformed school students flocked into the enormous auditorium. Positioned in the centre of the prestigious private school grounds, the obtrusively hyphenated Balstiric-Mellin Hall boasted giant, almost Tudor themed walls, and although radiantly gothic, did very little to stem the acoustics of enthusiastic screaming kids and shouting teachers.

This was the weekly assembly each and every student of the private and very prestigious Maidstone Boys’ Grammar School was required to attend. Here, they would wrap up the previous week’s events, be it sporting accomplishments, academic awards or local community achievements, all elements the well renowned school lavished in.

In an ungraceful comportment, bigger kids shoved smaller kids, the food chain revealing itself, albeit akin to the plains of the Serengeti. And up the very back, away from prying eyes, sat the pre-arrived Jack Backworth and Brodie Tucker, uniforms scruffy, hair a mess and shirts stained with grass.

Reaching the top of the stairs, Scoot, followed by Reef, made their way to their regular seating area which already housed their two teenage colleagues.

“Where’s that loser Kimble?” Scoot asked to the slouched Brodie Tucker, taking a seat and wiggling in his chair, a vain attempt to get more comfortable, “I have a hilarious prank to perform on him and I haven’t seen the idiot all lunch and I can’t remember the hilarious prank for much longer.”

“He’s sitting with that fat bastard Seb on the stage up the front,” answered Jack Backworth, who was lovingly referred to as ‘Mad Jack’ due to his tiny frame yet ruthlessly loose temper. Although shifty and relatively untrustworthy, his amusing persona and practical jokes gained him notoriety amoungst the students and teachers alike. But it was clear he was crazy. Scoot narrowed his eyes to locate Clyde ‘Kimble’ Radley, who sat uncomfortably on stage, beside another one of their colleagues, Seb.

“Seb’s on the stage as well,” frowned Scoot, eventually locating Sebastian Thomas, but remaining quite confused, “why would he be there?”

“He’s an ass kissing asshole who likes to give anyone older than him a rim job so they like him,” answered Brodie Tucker, arms crossed, clearly unimpressed to be there, “but I am better than him in everything in every single way.” His uniform barely fitted him. He was by far the largest, muscliest, most developed child the human race could ever have achieved for a fifteen year old and had the attitude to boot. Unlike Seb, Brodie Tucker didn’t care what anyone thought, with the exception of the opposite sex, to which he paid most of his time and attention.

Scoot, still wiggling uncomfortably, leaned over to gain the attention of Tucker.

“Oi Tucker, you owe me a dollar thirty,” reminded Scoot, unimpressed.

Making little effort to respond or acknowledge Scoot’s idiotic comment, Tucker retaliated with a snarl.

“You are never going to get that, ever,” replied Tucker, indifferently.

“On the contrary, I know your locker combination,” beamed Scoot, waving his dirty index finger in Tuckers direction, leaning back into his squeaky chair with a smug smile.

“I changed it,” scoffed Tucker, “I had to after Reef announced it on the school intercom.”

“Yeah I did,” Reef muttered reflectively, praising his own actions.

“Was my idea,” mumbled Scoot, under his breath.

“After this bullshit assembly I’m going over to the girls’ school to see if I can hook up with Michelle Tally, you coming Reef?” Tucker asked.

“I will,” answered Scoot in an unfounded blurt of desperation.

“No not you, you’re a dick,” Tucker replied, agitated at the idea he even spoke, “I can’t be seen with a dud like you, last time you came across with us it looked like you were going to kidnap the girls and lock them in car boot, you’re not coming.”

“But I didn’t speak last time, I was eating all those free cupcakes we got.”

“Exactly,” acknowledged Tucker, put off by the memory.

“Well I’m going to come anyway. And speaking of cupcakes, what was Kenny doing outside handing out those bits of paper?” Scoot asked, wiping sweat from his brow and adjusting the knot on his tie so it wasn’t strangling him.



At that moment, the room went quiet, the air became heavy, and fear manifested into a life form. Dr. Lucious Carter, the school headmaster, had now appeared on the impressive oak wooden stage out in front of the hall. His imposing voice commanded respect, and his dark eyes and military exuberance filled everyone with an impenetrable feeling of how little they had accomplished compared to his goliath portfolio of war and academic undertakings. And he let no one forget it.

Scoot leaned over to Mad Jack, his chair squeaking unnaturally loudly.

“Carter has a daughter you know,” whispered Scoot.

“What’s the deal with your chair?” asked Mad Jack, obviously more agitated by the squeaky noise.

“She was raised by wolves and now lives in a hut with elderly aborigines,” continued Scoot, “that’s what Leyden told me.”

“That story isn’t true,” replied Mad Jack.

“It is true,” added Scoot, “they say she turns into a werewolf at night to the music of Van Morrison.”

“I don’t know what year level this Van Morrison is in but there are multiple flaws in this story,” replied Mad Jack, shaking his head. “and I’m basing that on the fact that you heard it from Leyden pretty much makes it a definite lie.”

“Mr Parker!” boomed Mr Carter’s voice from the stage. In unison, over six hundred faces all turned ninety degrees and faced the accused Scoot like a school of salmon, “do you have something more important to talk about other than the woodwind and percussion’s trip to the city central for the annual toot and boom awards?”

Scoot’s mouth dropped open in distaste.

“I stopped speaking ages ago,” scoffed Scoot defensively under his breath, alluding to the fact the conversation included Reef, Mad Jack and at varying times, Tucker.

“Well?” roared Dr Carter, his callous eyes locked onto Scoot.

“Absolutely not, in no way,” answered Scoot, raising his hands.

“Do you feel that what you have to say is more interesting to everyone here than what I have to say?”

“To back up my last response, no, absolutely not,” replied Scoot, his voice barely carrying down to the stage. Around him, teachers and students shook their head in disgrace, judging him.

“Do not talk!” reminded Headmaster Carter, very slowly, his words seemingly taking a minute each to echo around the cavernous hall.

There was a stone cold silence.

“Now,” continued Headmaster Carter, “following on, may I remind you that this is kindness week. A week I have designated for each and every one of you to perform three acts of kindness to someone else without expecting anything in return.”

“Oh my God,” sighed Reef, collapsing his face into his hands, realising he was about to endure yet another preposterous plot by Headmaster Carter to ‘grow them into fine upstanding gentlemen’.

“Kindness is a trait comprising of compassion, goodwill and indeed a sound way to demonstrate how much of a gentleman you are. Because the only people that set foot through these gates are men who I deem able to be the best they can be.”

“By forcing us to be kind?” scoffed Reef, baffled by the whole proposition.

“Kindness week?” winced Tucker, “That’s bullshit, hurry up and stop talking so I can skip class and go hook up with Michelle.”

“I’m kind all the time so he can go shove that idea up his arse,” Scoot colourfully remarked, seemingly convinced by his own fabricated self appointed trait.

“I haven’t listened to a single word he has said,” Mad Jack proudly announced amoungst an exhausted sigh before yawning, before sitting up and stretching.

“Why does he do shit like this?” growled Reef, “kindness week? What a joke, sounds like something from Sesame Street.”

Headmaster Carter clapped his hands together and continued his speech.

“So next week, you will all attend our annual Cadet Camp with the knowledge you have taken a step further in becoming men, and demonstrated signs towards your own personal development,” continued Headmaster Carter, “the upstanding gentlemen of my school.”

“Cadet what?” asked Scoot, sitting up causing his chair to squeal loudly like someone had punched a rat in the face.

“Camp?” cried a visibly concerned Mad Jack, showing similar untoward distress and shock as Scoot.

“Oh, I don’t do cadet camps,” shrugged Tucker, blatantly seemingly a little more aware and educated about the camp yet not as concerned.

His eyes wide, his lips pursed, Scoot darted his attention to Tucker.

“What the fuck is a cadet camp?”

Sitting up suddenly, clearly awoken from a mini slumber, Reef jolted; “Baguette camp?” he blurted loudly, “Oh shit, I hate the French.”

“No one told me about this,” whimpered Scoot, “no one!”

“Mr Parker!” howled Headmaster Carter’s cruel voice, “you dare interrupt me again? Rise to your feet immediately!”

Scoot rolled his eyes in annoyance.



After dismissal from the assembly, the school population went about their way, attending the final classes before the day came to a close. Reef and Mad Jack, holding giant text books, ambled slowly towards their next biology lesson with no real urgency. Upon reaching the glass doorway, they were met by Taylor Grady, a scruffy red haired lad who boasted a lot of brawn and little brain activity. Growing up at the school, he and his best mate Brent were known for years as the school bullies. Terrorising younger students, they made a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons. It soon became apparent something had to be done, and the result was Brent’s transfer to another school by way of his parents and a strong suggestive bargaining agreement with the school executives. As predicted, Taylor seemed to slip into a temporary depression, quickly ceasing his physical disobedience. What now remained was a shell of a student who had little respect for any teacher, difficulty learning and an appalling academic record. His parents were very wealthy, but were typically working and found little time to address their child’s obvious flailing social and cognitive development. Taylor seemed to not make friends easily, and tended to only associate with a few students, and one of them was the easy going and carefree Timothy Reef.

“Ahh, the big red shed, where the fuck were you during that painful assembly?” asked Reef, annoyed but curious, “you missed out on Scoot getting ripped into by Carter again.”

“Down the street,” answered Taylor, “I don’t like assembly. Too much talking.”

Taylor followed Reef and Mad Jack into the room as the group of students flocking in all took their seats in the laboratory that lay decorated with jars of specimens, posters of planets and basins with oversized faucets.

“This could be the most boring class ever,” explained Reef, to Mad Jack who sat beside him. Mad Jack’s response was unrelated.

“I have a note for you. It’s from that girl over at the girls’ school that you like, Heather Culkin.”

In an unenthused fashion, Reef diverted his attention to Mad Jack, blissfully aware he was not telling the truth due to the fact he had the same expression every time he was concocting a little prank, and even more so that he didn’t even know Heather Culkin.

“Do you now?”

“I’ll give it to you for five bucks.”

“Okay,” nodded Reef, assessing the situation, “so you’re trying to charge me five bucks for some note that I have not seen and I’m relatively certain either doesn’t exist or you wrote.”

Pondering for a second, Mad Jack arched his head.

“Yep.”

Swiftly, Taylor flung Mad Jack’s pencil case out a nearby open window. He then turned to Reef for approval for his loyal actions.

Mad Jack, in shock, gazed quietly at the open window.

“Why did you do that?”

“I think you know why,” replied Taylor, condescendingly.

“It needed to be done,” agreed Reef, hoping to spar up Mad Jack’s infamous rage with the intent to unleash it as a way of amusement instead of listening to the class teacher.

While Mad Jack hung perilously from the second story window in a bid to locate his pencil case, the door to the lab opened accompanied by an orchestral screech of unoiled hinges, and the teacher, Mr Brails, lumbered in slowly. A quiet old man, he was wise, well experienced and sported quite a crafty little beard. He enjoyed teaching, and loved to see his students learn new things. Other students anyway, not the current ones, he didn’t like them at all.

“Okay, who wants to do their presentation first?” he muttered, before he had made it to his desk. He plonked down some books and looked up at the awaiting class. He was met with predictable confusion and silence.

“What presentation?” asked Oscar Ballette, a feisty little addition to the class. Short, stumpy and strong, he was a farm boy through and through, with a famous little notion that it was his belief he could solve any issue by yelling loudly. He was never serious even in the most sombre of moments and was blatantly immature and proud of it. It was also publicly known he had forged a baseless nemesis in classmate Jayden Percy, whom he dictated was a slimy girlish little weasel.

“Mr Ballette, let me tell you a story,” began Mr Brails, clearing his throat.

“Please don’t,” begged Oscar.

“Back in the era of the Incas, knights would perform what they described as ritual telegraphs where all the local – “

“I don’t get it,” interrupted Oscar, raising his hands.

Mr Brails paused, and his eyebrows lowered.

“Right, well, you fail.”

“Fail!?” roared Oscar, “cause I didn’t understand your story!?”

“I didn’t understand it either,” admitted Jayden Percy, up the front, “I suppose it was the bit about the knights that threw me.”

“Oh shut up Percy,” wailed Oscar in disgust.

“Both of you be quiet,” responded Mr Brails, turning to Percy before diverting his attention back to Oscar, “Mr Ballette, you fail because you didn’t do the presentation as asked.”

As he was addressing Oscar’s insubordination, the door flung open allowing Scoot to bundle in ungracefully like the eye of a cyclone. He gasped for air.

“I’m sorry I’m late,” he announced, as all his books slipped out of his hands and onto the ground forming a puddle of paper, “my locker got jammed and I had to ask that rapist gardener to open it for me again.”

“Mr Parker,” Mr Brails sighed, “for the last time the gardener is not a sex offender, now go and sit down.”

Picking up his scattered books, Scoot took the time to search the room for an empty seat. There remained but one.

“Oh, I can’t sit there,” explained Scoot, his face red with exhaustion. Clearly not impressed, Mr Brails picked up his projector plastic and eyed Scoot up and down.

“Pray tell, why not?”

“It’s next to Deeley,” pointed Scoot, “I can’t sit next to that fat shit for forty minutes.”

Andrew Deeley, a very fat, unhealthy looking boy, was by far the smartest kid in the school. Outperforming each kid by a full year level, he was a part of a university maths and psychology initiative. But he was also grossly unpopular, and socially inept.

“Mr Parker, let me tell you a story.” began Mr Brails.

“Okay!” agreed Scoot with a naive enthusiasm.

“In the fungal environment, three fungi stand out as autotropic members of the micro environment. Namely red, blue and a faded blue, that when morphed as a bio macular-“

“Oh fuck it, I’ll sit down,” murmured Scoot with an impatient sigh, making his way sheepishly to the single chair left. With a loud piercing scrape, he slid it from its hiding place beneath the large stone bench and made himself comfortable, flicking a quick, disgruntled glare at Deeley.

“Hey,” smiled Deeley.



While most of the class focus was still on Scoot’s seating concerns, Callum Marlowe lifted his hand. With an envious natural ease, Callum had managed to be the most liked person at the school. He hadn’t been a student at the school nearly as long as his peers had been, but having recently been part of a broken family, he was forced to make the trek to live with his wealthy father nearby as his mother was not suited for custody. Whether it was his boyish charm, his intense pleasant nature or his impressive sports prowess, you name it, he had accomplished it. Down to earth, polite, modest, charitable and criminally nice, it was hard not to like him. Many teachers spent an unnaturally large amount of time trying to convince him that his choice of school colleagues is to be desired, and the likes of Tucker, Reef, Leyden and the rest of the group wouldn’t be so good for his future, schooling and in extreme cases, even his health. But they were his mates, and that’s how it would stay, despite all the ridiculous pranks, jokes, grossly indecent comments, unpleasant banter and poor choices they make. Plus they made him laugh, and that’s exactly what he needed after the tumultuous breakup of his parents.

“I’ll do my presentation,” Callum volunteered, smiling like a dork, raising his arm slightly.

“Oh great,” sighed Tucker mockingly, loud enough so everyone could hear, “this’ll go for six hours.”

Callum ignored Tucker’s predicable scorn, instead continuing.

“I’ll need a volunteer.”

“Me?” smiled Tucker.

“No,” replied Callum, “how about Alistair?”

Callum pointed over to Alistair Dell, the shyest person in skin, who shrank in his chair. His usual choice of picking a seat in the corner, down the back, away from any attention or ruckus usually worked.

“M..m...me?” he whimpered, shyly, his freckly face red with embarrassment.

“I’m already bored,” Mad Jack sighed, loudly, down the end of the lab, fiddling with a Bunsen burner.

While the class watched, Alistair apprehensively shuffled his way along the rows of tables to meet a smiling Callum up the front.

“Callum, you’re my hero,” whispered Leyden, mockingly, up the front. Surreptitiously, Callum flipped Leyden his middle finger.

Scoot’s hand shot up.

“Can I move to Callum’s now vacant seat while he does his boring presentation?”

“No,” was the immediate and predictable response from Mr Brails.

“Okay,” clapped Callum, up the front, gathering everyone’s attention, “thanks a lot for coming.”

“Callum, this isn’t a democracy, we didn’t have a choice,” reminded Reef, flicking a rubber band at him.

“My presentation is about heart research,” continued Callum, seemingly very pleased with himself.

“Then why’s that fanta pants next to you?” chirped Tucker, who was slouching so far down his head and massive shoulders barely cleared the desk.

“And why wasn’t I a volunteer?” asked Oscar, feeling he was missing out and therefore sparking his need to be acknowledged.

“Can I be next?” asked Percy, before pondering for a moment “I mean next as in next volunteer, not next presentation, cause I haven’t done a presentation.”

Mr Brails stared at him, shocked and quite appalled by his brutal honesty.

“Jokes,” chuckled Percy nervously as he pressed for a few more seconds so he could make up a lie, “it’s in my locker.”

“Will you all shut up?” sighed Mr Brails, running his hand through his hair, “we miss next week as you’re all off to Cadet Camp, so we need to do this now!”

In an unfounded outrage, Scoot flailed his lanky arms in a bid for attention to back up his impending comment.

“Camp!? What camp!? I keep hearing about this supposed camp?”

Mr Brails took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes in frustration.

“Mr Parker, surely you know there’s a cadet camp next week?”

“Mr Brails,” replied Scoot, mimicking him in a mock way, “you’ll find that I don’t.”

Seb, a seat ahead, turned to face Scoot. Seb lived a life of delusion. He was under the impression he was considered cool amoungst the older kids within the school, and they enjoyed his company. Little was he aware they found him irritating and made it clear he tried a little too hard. This didn’t deter him, and every time he had a moment he would join them where ever they may be, and this included weekend parties. He was slightly overweight, and was very self conscious about it as he was quite the keen sportsman.

“What did you think all those cadet training days were for?” Seb asked, pencil in mouth.

Scoot shook his head in bewilderment.

“The ones we wore those army clothes for?” asked Scoot.

“Yes they were,” replied Seb, condescendingly, with an ostracised nod.

Reef thought he would add to the conversation.

“And what happens at this previously spoken of cadet camp?” he asked, to no one in particular.

The class began talking aloud.

Callum remained up the front of the classroom unimpressed with his arms crossed. Beside him nested a very nervous looking Alistair.

“Gentleman!” called Mr Brails, “may I remind you this is Biology and not a cadet camp discussion.”

“I’m excited!” exclaimed Kenny, the excitable teacher’s pet, clapping animatedly.

“Well,” muttered Tucker, “I don’t do cadet camps.” He shrugged and began scratching marks onto the neighbouring Percy’s school folders, “but if I did I’d excel over Seb in every way cause I am superior to him.”

Seb shook his head in retaliation to Tucker.

“I’m so glad Percy isn’t in my platoon,” trumpeted Oscar, from across the room. Percy threw a blunt pencil at him, missing him by an inch.

“Platoons?” winced Scoot, “What’s this morbid shit? Bit war orientated isn’t it? What is this black hole of a school trying to force on us?”

“Mr Parker,” muttered Mr Brails, fed up with the whole discussion, “if you have a moral issue with the camp I suggest you take it up with Mr Wutherwick or Mr Baine.”

Scoot paused for a second, his face twisted in disgust. He managed to choke out a cough of detest.

“They’re my options? Those two alcoholic narcissistic psychopaths?” he wailed.

“Excuse me,” shouted Callum, up the front, waving his sheets of paper, “I have a presentation to do here.”

“Oh shut up Callum,” replied Tucker, “why don’t you and the ginger go get a room,” as he pressed holes into Percy’s pencil case.

“Enough interruptions!” announced Mr Brails, waving his arms, “That’s the last we hear of the cadet camp!”



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