Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the World

Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the World — page 9
Bill Nye and Gregory Mone My heart started pounding Ava had spent months constructing constructing that robot She’d worked so hard and grown so frustrated that I’d actually caught her eyes tearing up once or twice And my sister never cried Still she’d stuck with it and once Fred flew she was as happy as I’d ever seen her Now the drone was gone and it was all my fault Ava slammed her laptop shut with unusual force shoved it into her shoulder bag and stomped out of the alley One side of her mouth peaked into an angry snarl Wait I said Where are you going To get Fred I followed her across the pothole-lined street What are you going to do 6 She locked her fingers and cracked her knuckles Shout yell make some noise until someone answers You’ll wake the whole neighborhood Too bad I’m getting Fred back As we squeezed between two parked cars with dented bumpers I stared up at the balcony Let me try something first It’s not like there’s a front door Matt called out from a few steps behind us You can’t just knock you know No but I could climb Most of my experience was with trees as I’d spent pretty much all of third and fourth grade hiding from my foster family in a backyard oak Normally