5 Ch5-Howdy, Pardner!

Chapter 5 Howdy, Pardner! After we were finished with that dumb stuff, Miss Small collected all the feathers and blew her whistle. "Okay, let's have all the boys line up on one side of the gym and all the girls line up on the other side." "All right!" I whispered to Ryan. "We're

gonna play dodgeball." Dodgeball is this cool game where you get to throw balls at the kids on the other side of the gym and try to hit them. It's the only game I know of where the object of the game is to hurt people. Dodgeball rules! "Watch this," I told Ryan. "When I get the ball, I'm gonna wam Andrea Young right in the head." Me and Ryan high-fived. Then we switched places so I could be right across from Andrea. That way I could get a good shot at her. The only problem was that Miss Small didn't go get any dodgeballs. When all

the boys and girls were lined up on oppo- site sides of the gym, she went over to a boom box on the floor and turned it on. This annoying hillbilly music blasted out of the boom box. Miss Small put a big straw hat on her head and started danc- ing around like a lunatic. "Yee-haw!" she hollered. "I reckon it's time for some square dancing!" "What!" I shouted. "We're not sup- posed to dance in Fizz Ed. We're sup- posed to play ball and stuff. Square dancing is dumb." But nobody could hear me because the girls were all whooping and squealing like they were opening their birthday

presents or something. "Everybody sashay to the middle of the gym and honor your partner!" Miss Small shouted. She was clapping her hands to the music. I looked for Ryan and Michael, but they had already sashayed to the middle of the gym with the rest of the boys. I didn't want to be the only one standing there on the line, so I sashayed to the middle too. "Howdy, pardner!" Andrea Young said to me, and she did one of those courtesy things girls do with their skirts. No way I was gonna bow and say, "Howdy, pardner." I didn't want to honor

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Andrea. I wanted to nail her in the head with a dodgeball. "Swing your partner round and round!" shouted Miss Small. Andrea grabbed my elbow and swung herself around me about a hundred million times. "Hey, look!" Ryan shouted. "A.J. and Andrea are in love!" "Shut up, Ryan!" Then we all went back to our boy and girl places. I thought I was gonna throw up from all that spinning. "Clap your hands!" ordered Miss Small. "Circle left!" ordered Miss Small. "Circle right!" ordered Miss Small.