22. Wednesday

CHAPTER 22 WEDNESDAY Another day, another awesome lunch for George and Harold and their classmates. The Piqua Pizza Palace had even delivered salads and breadsticks, and the kindergartners had never been happier. At the end of the day, when wrestling practice was over, Kipper's three friends dashed back to their lockers as fast as they could to see what bizarre thing Kipper was going to do next. They were not disappointed.

Kipper was already angry when he reached his locker. He knew something was not right. "What?" he yelled at his friends. "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS LAUGHING ABOUT?!!?" "Dude," said Loogie, "can I bring a teddy bear to your tea party, or is it just for dollies only?" The three bullies busted up laughing. Kipper grabbed Loogie's phone and read the message. "I— DID —NOT—WRITE —THIS!" Kipper screamed wildly. "And I DON'T have any DOLLS in my locker, either!" Kipper grabbed the key from the chain around his neck, unlocked his padlock, and threw the locker door open with a mighty crash.

About twenty dolls tumbled out of the locker and fell into a pile at Kipper's feet. Kipper's friends each took a few steps back. They weren't sure whether to keep laughing or start running. Kipper did nothing at first. He just stood there looking down at the mountain of dolls at his feet.

Then he began breathing heavily as he started to twitch. The trembling originated at Kipper's feet, making its way slowly up his legs. By the time it reached Kipper's upper body, he was shaking like a volcano that was about to explode. Kipper squeezed his fists into tight knots of fury as he raised his right foot and began kicking the dolls. "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" Kipper screamed, as he punted his pretty dollies up and down the hallway.

Kipper's friends had never seen a freak-out quite like this. Kipper grabbed two of the bigger dolls and started swinging them around and around, smashing them against his locker door and just about anything

else that was nearby. Then came the tearing and the biting and the stomping and the decapitating. Loogie, Bugg, and Finkstein decided it might be a good time to start running.