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“Awesome!” Lee said, high-fiving his cousin.
“Hey, Jackie, what the heck is on your face?” Alex whispered, looking at me.
“War paint,” I answered him, pulling a pencil of black eyeliner out of my pocket. “Want some?”
“Heck yes,” he said, grinning. I pulled the cap off with a pop and slowly began to draw two black lines, one under each of Alex’s eyes.
“Hey,” Isaac said, looking at us, “I want some too!”
“Okay,” I said, smiling. “Anyone else?”
Everyone nodded their heads yes and waited for me to add the war paint. The only person who didn’t want it was Cole.
“That’s so lame,” he said when I asked him if he wanted some. Hurt, I shoved the pencil back in my pocket and turned away from him.
“All right, everyone,” Isaac said, trying to fill the awkward silence. “Down the tree and out to the truck.”
Danny nodded his head and pushed open the window before climbing out and down the tree.
“Watch how he does it,” Alex said, pointing out where his brother placed his feet and hands to climb down.
“Okay, next!” Danny half shouted, half whispered when he was down.
Cole quickly scrambled out the window, followed by Lee, then Isaac.
“Ready?” Alex asked me as I stepped up to the windowsill. I could feel the chilly night air drifting in, and I buttoned my sweater up for warmth.
“I guess,” I said nervously.
“Don’t worry. It’s easy,” he told me. Nodding my head, I hiked a foot up and out the window. Then I pulled myself up and carefully grabbed onto a branch. “It’s okay. Keep going,” Alex said.
Taking a deep breath, I scooted off the windowsill and clung to the tree. Slowly I lowered my left foot onto the thick branch below it.
“We don’t have all night,” someone grumbled from below. It sounded like Cole.
“Don’t worry about him,” Alex whispered. “He’s just being pissy.”
Alex helped me down the tree by telling me where to put my feet. When they finally hit the soft grass, we headed over to where the rest of the guys were standing.
“Took long enough,” Cole said when Alex finally dumped the bag of toilet paper into the back of the truck.
“Just shut up, Cole,” Alex said with a scowl.
“Can you two both chill for a minute?” Isaac said to them. “You guys can have this argument when we get back, but I’d like to get out of here without getting caught.”
Cole and Alex glared at each other, but both stayed silent.
“We need to push the truck to the road,” Danny said.
“Push it?” I asked, surprised. It was going to be so heavy.
“Yeah, Mom can hear everything,” he said. “So, if we want to get out of here, we can’t start it until it’s on the road.”
Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck.
“Fox?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Yeah,” Isaac said with a grin. “Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.”
I rolled my eyes as most of the guys tried to hold in their laughter.
“All right, guys. One, two, three!” Cole instructed. Everyone pushed, and it only took us a few minutes to get Megan down the Walters’ long driveway.
“Whoo!” Alex shouted once the truck was on the street. “Let’s go.”
Everyone climbed in, Cole started the truck, and then we were off into the night.
***
“All right, Isaac, Danny. You take the backyard,” Cole said, throwing the black duffel bag on the ground. He quickly unzipped it and threw them both rolls of toilet paper. We were all standing outside Principal McHale’s three-story house. It was a good distance from the road, and there was lots of tree coverage, but Cole had parked the truck a block back just in case.
“It’s huge,” I whispered to Alex who was standing next to me. “There are so many trees.”
Alex nodded his head with a smile. “It’s perfect for a good TP.”
“You guys are being too loud,” Cole hissed, looking at me.
“Fine, Mr. Boss Man. Give me a job to do,” Alex said.
Cole tossed him the box of forks. “Someone has to fork the lawn,” he said.
“I’ll go too,” I said, linking arms with Alex. I didn’t want to be left alone with Cole and Lee.
“I don’t think so,” Cole said, grabbing my arm as we started to head away. “I have the perfect job for you.”
A few minutes later, I stood staring up at the back balcony.