This time Patsy nodded. I had the feeling she was starting to get it. “I guess it’s like watch- ing a movie — or reading a book,” she said.
“Uh-huh,” I told her.
Someone tapped my shoulder. It was my mom. She was with Clay. “What are you kids doing here?” my mom asked.
“Patsy and I figured we’d catch a movie after supper. We’re going to see Tae Foo Rumble. What about you guys?”
Don’t say you’re going to see Tae Foo Rumble, I thought to myself.
No such luck.
“Us too,” my mom said. “This is great. We can sit together. It’ll be like a double date.”
I felt my ears turn hot.
“Sure,” Patsy said, in a voice that didn’t sound so sure.
“You know, honey, now that I think about it, I’m not exactly in the mood for a martial arts movie,” Clay said, taking my mom’s elbow. “Wasn’t there a chick flick you wanted to see? I’d bet they’d let us change our tickets.”
My mom looked at him. “Sure,” she said, “that sounds like a good idea. You two enjoy your movie, okay?”
“I thought you hated chick flicks,” I heard her tell Clay as they walked back to the ticket booth.
“A guy can get used to anything,” he told her as he put his arm through hers. Even from behind, I could see his cowlick sticking up in the air.
Patsy had been watching them too. “So are you getting used to him?” she asked me.
I shrugged my shoulders. “I guess so,” I said. “Just do me one favor, Patsy.”
“Sure.”
“Don’t tell him.”
OTHER TITLES IN THE ORCA SOUNDINGS SERIES
Blue Moon by Marilyn Halvorson
Breathless by Pam Withers
Bull Rider by Marilyn Halvorson
Charmed by Carrie Mac
Dead-End Job by Vicki Grant
Death Wind by William Bell
Fastback Beach by Shirlee Smith Matheson
Grind by Eric Walters
The Hemingway Tradition by Kristin Butcher
Juice by Eric Walters
Kicked Out by Beth Goobie
My Time as Caz Hazard by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
No More Pranks by Monique Polak
No Problem by Dayle Campbell Gaetz
One More Step by Sheree Fitch
Overdrive by Eric Walters
Refuge Cove by Lesley Choyce
Snitch by Norah McClintock
Something Girl by Beth Goobie
Sticks and Stones by Beth Goobie
Thunderbowl by Lesley Choyce
Tough Trails by Irene Morck
The Trouble With Liberty by Kristin Butcher
Truth by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Who Owns Kelly Paddik? by Beth Goobie
Yellow Line by Sylvia Olsen
Zee’s Way by Kristin Butcher
Also by Monique Polak No More Pranks
Aunt Daisy’s words rang in my head, like a song you can’t forget, no matter how hard you try. “Three minutes until you lose sensation in your extremities.”
I wriggled my fingers and toes. While I still could.
Pete likes to play pranks. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as it gets a laugh. When he impersonates his vice-principal on a radio call-in show, he goes too far and is suspended from school. Pete’s parents send him to spend the summer working with his uncle, a whale-watching guide in a tourist town far from the city. When a whale is injured by a reckless tour guide, Pete struggles to save the animal. Then Pete has to pull the most important prank of his life to bring the guide to justice.