4. The Sit on the Couch and Watch TV Club

4 The Sit on the Couch and Watch TV Club I signed up for the Sit on the Couch and Watch TV Club because I like to sit on the couch and watch TV. The first meeting of the club was in the art room, so I went over there as soon as school let out on Wednesday. When I walked in the door, guess who was standing there. You don't have to guess. It was Mrs.

Marge. "You're in charge of this club too?" I asked her. "Of course," replied Mrs. Marge. "I'm in charge of all the clubs! Hmmm. That's a little weird. I guess that's why the book is called Mrs. Marge Is in Charge!

I was the first kid there. I looked around the art room. There was no couch, and there was no TV. "Where's the couch?" I asked. "Where's the TV?" "Oh, we don't need a couch or a TV," said Mrs. Marge. "This is the Zombie Hunters Club." WHAT?! "I thought this was the Sit on the Couch and Watch TV Club," I said. "Oh, sorry," replied Mrs. Marge. "Not enough students signed up to be in the Sit on the Couch and Watch TV Club. So I started the Zombie Hunters Club instead." "But I was hoping to sit on a couch and watch TV," I told her. "Why would anyone want to sit on a couch and watch TV when they could hunt for zombies?" she asked. I couldn't argue with that. Hunting for zombies did sound like fun. One by one, some other kids came into

the room looking for their clubs that had been canceled because not enough kids signed up for them. "Okay, everybody," Mrs. Marge said excitedly. "Let's go hunting for zombies!" We followed her down the hallway outside the art room. We turned left at the corner. Then we turned right at the next corner. "What's a zombie, anyway?" Ryan whispered to me. "A zombie is a dead person who gets brought back to life," I whispered to him.

"I'm scared," said Emily. Of course. "Zombies aren't real," Andrea assured Emily. "They are too," I said. "Are not," said Andrea.

"R2-D2," I told her. "Shhhhh!" said Mrs. Marge. "The zombies might hear you." We walked a million hundred miles all over the school looking for zombies. "Don't zombies eat people?" whispered Michael. "Yeah, sometimes they eat the living," I whispered to him. "I saw that in a horror movie once." "I think you mean werewolves," whispered Neil. "No, werewolves are people who turn into wolves," whispered Alexia. "I think vampires eat the living." "What's the difference between a werewolf, a vampire, and a zombie?" whispered Ryan. "I heard that zombies only eat human brains," I whispered. "Well, at least you're safe, Arlo," whispered Andrea. "You don't have a brain!"