2. My Secret Plan

2 My Secret Plan I grabbed a bar of soap from our bathroom sink. My secret plan was to go over to Andrea's house and soap up her windows. That would show her who's boss. Nobody TP's my house and gets away with it. I knew that my mom would never let me go out so late to soap up Andrea's windows. I would have to come up with another reason to get out of the house. "Mom, can I go over to Ryan's house for a few minutes?" I asked. "I need to get our homework assignment for tonight." "Okay," she said, "but why do you have a bar of soap in your hand?" "Uh I may have to wash my hands," I lied.

"A.J., I'm sure Ryan has soap at his house." "I don't like Ryan's soap," I told her. "It smells stinky." "Why don't you just wash your hands right here and then go over to Ryan's house?" Mom asked. "My hands might get dirty while I'm over there," I explained. "Ryan's house is really filthy." "Just go, A.J.," my mom said as she rubbed her forehead with her fingers. Yes! I win! If you can get your mom or dad to rub their forehead with their fingers, they'll agree to just about anything. That's the first rule of being a kid. Ryan lives down the street from me. I ran over to his house as fast as I could so I wouldn't be attacked by any monsters along the way. You never know when there might

be monsters out, roaming the streets. I told Ryan my secret plan to soap up Andrea's windows. He told his mom that he needed to go to my house to get tonight's homework assignment. It took some convincing, but finally she rubbed her forehead with her fingers and said he could go. Little did she know that we were going to Andrea's house to do a little mischief. Ryan and I sneaked down the street like secret agents, hiding behind cars and trees so we wouldn't get caught. It was cool. "I'm traveling incognito," I whispered to Ryan. "What's a cognito?" "How should I know?" I said. "But secret agents always travel in them."*

After walking a million hundred miles, we finally reached Andrea's street. "This is gonna be great!" Ryan whispered. "Shhhhhhhh!" We crept up to Andrea's front window. I reached into my pocket. I took out the bar of soap. And just as I was about to rub the soap

all over the window, I saw the most horrible, revolting, disgusting creature I have ever encountered in my life. It was Andrea! "Ahhhhhhh!" Ryan and I screamed. "What are you doing over here, Arlo?" asked Andrea as she lifted up the window. She calls me by my real name because she knows I don't like it. "Uh nothing," I said. "We were, uh bird-watching." "Yeah," Ryan agreed. "We were watching birds. I think I just saw a yellow- bellied sapsucker in that tree over there."

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