Kendra becomes aware of the scores of eyes on us, and tries to wriggle from my grasp.
I don’t let go. “They didn’t vote for us. Screw ’em,” I whisper.
She laughs and melts back into me.
“How’s your father taking this?” I ask.
“He hates it,” she admits. “What about your family? Do they know yet?”
“I just spilled the beans to my dad, but I didn’t stick around for the postgame fireworks. It’s not going to be easy, for either of us.”
She looks into my eyes and sighs. “What did Romeo and Juliet do?”
“They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison—”
She cuts me off. “But what if they’d lived?”
I think it over. “Same as us, I guess. Stay cool, and never bring the folks together for a meet-and-greet.”
Gordon Korman is the author of more than seventy popular young adult and middle grade novels, including The Juvie Three; Schooled; Born to Rock; Son of the Mob; Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle; Jake, Reinvented; No More Dead Dogs; and The 6th Grade Nickname Game.
Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. Visit his Web site at www.gordonkorman.com.
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Son of the Mob:
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