Chapter 11

CHAPTER 11 "Okay, guys, what are we gonna do to Edgar?" Michael said as he plopped down his tray of chicken nuggets. "We?" said Sadie. "Don't bring me into this." "How did he get so big?" Justin wondered nervously as he looked across the lunchroom at Edgar, who was sitting next to his two cronies at the fourth-grade table. "I mean, he'd be huge even for an eighth grader." "If nobody else has any ideas, I thought of one that involves a tree, a bus, and a bucket of goo," Michael said. "Does it also involve getting destroyed by Edgar?" Justin asked. Sadie nodded. "That would be a yes." "Be brave, Justin!" Michael said. "This is bigger than us. We're doing this for fifth graders everywhere! Vengeance will be ours!" "I really wish you would stop saying we," Sadie said. "Excuse me." Merle popped out of Michael's backpack, holding a half-eaten chicken nugget. "These are AMAZING!! What do you call these things?" "Chicken nuggets," Michael said.

"The next time I see any chickens, I will thank them for their nuggets." Merle finished off his nugget and grabbed another. "Do you two have any ideas for an epic prank?" Michael asked the squirrels. "Prank?" Pearl questioned. "Yeah, something we can do to really embarrass Edgar, this kid who's always humiliating us," Michael replied. "Like revenge?" Merle asked. "Yep!" Michael smiled. "I want to give Edgar a taste of his own medicine!"

Pearl frowned. "Revenge is never a good idea." "See? That's exactly what I said!" Sadie tried to give Pearl a fist bump. Pearl, not familiar with the art of the fist bump, simply reached out and patted the top of Sadie's hand. "Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you," Pearl said. "Oh! Oh! Sre uh Garrreee!" Merle piped in, his mouth full of nugget. "What?!" asked Pearl and the kids. Merle gulped down his food and repeated, "Sea of Galilee. I remember that..."