8 The Big Surprise Ending!

8 The Big Surprise Ending! "The winner...," said Ms. Coco, "of the first annual Ella Mentry School poetry contest... is... Andrea!" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Say it ain't so! Bummer in the summer!

The whole place went nuts. The kids started yelling and screaming and hooting and hollering and freaking out. Well, of course, Andrea had to be the winner. She wins everything. I wanted to run away to Antarctica and go live with the penguins. Penguins probably don't even like Zip-Zaps.

It took a long time for everybody to calm down. I knew what was going to happen next. Mayor Hubble was going to give Andrea a trophy and say how great she is. But that's when the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. I looked around the room for Mayor Hubble, but I didn't see him. "Where's Mayor Hubble?" asked some kid. "Where's Mayor Hubble?" asked some parent. "Where's Mayor Hubble?" asked some teacher. In case you were wondering, everybody was asking where Mayor Hubble was. I glanced out the window, and you'll never believe in a million hundred years what I saw. It was Mayor Hubble! He was opening the door of the Zip-Zap truck! He climbed into the truck! He rolled down the window! "April Fools!" he shouted. Then he hit the gas and the Zip-Zap truck peeled out of the driveway in a cloud of dust! I saw it with my own eyes!*

"Mayor Hubble is stealing the Zip-Zaps!" I shouted as I pointed out the window. Everybody ran outside and tried to chase the Zip-Zap truck, but it was too late. Mayor Hubble was gone, and he took all the Zip-Zaps with him. Well, that's pretty much what happened during National Poetry Month. I guess Mayor Hubble is the one who gets the lifetime supply of Zip-Zaps. I don't know where he drove the truck. Maybe he has another mansion somewhere, and he's going to go there and stash all the Zip-Zaps.

I was thinking about it. Probably the only reason we had the poetry contest in the first place was so Mayor Hubble could get a lifetime supply of Zip-Zaps. He pulled off the April Fools' prank of the century! Maybe the mayor will get caught, and he'll have to go to jail again. Maybe people will stop walking into doors. Maybe I'll make farting noises with my armpits. Maybe penguins will recite poetry. Maybe I'll get run over by a steamroller. Maybe they'll put "burple" in the dictionary. Maybe Ryan will eat a tarantula. Maybe they'll put some dolphins in the all-porpoise room. Maybe William Blake will jump in a lake. Maybe I'll figure out how to get the glue out of my pants. Maybe I'll stop eating Zip-Zaps and switch to KitKats. But it won't be easy!