For H A who can’t do simple math and for A W who can do so much more than that I’ll need you on my team for the apocalypse
1 Elijah The day of the disaster Elijah was bored out of his mind He was supposed to be on a camping trip with his friends not sitting at home with a dog who hated him and an uncle who treated him like a kid For the past forty-eight hours Marco had kept Elijah busy with chores This is character building Elijah Marco’s favorite phrase When your uncle is your legal guardian you can still argue with him but it won’t get you very far This morning Marco was giving Elijah a break The lawn was mowed the floors were 1
mopped the laundry was done Elijah figured his character must be built enough for one weekend Which meant he could spend today doing what Hayden Nevada was best known for nothing So now Elijah sat on the living room couch watching Storage Locker Makeover Serafina the overweight dog lay on the floor in front of the game cabinet with one suspicious eye open That mutt must be at least half-cat If you hugged her petted her even rubbed her ears she’d look at you like Come on Aren’t we both adults After a year of living with Marco Elijah had figured out that Serafina just wanted to be left alone He respected that He often felt the same way in Marco’s house Elijah wondered when Brenna and Keegan and Nicole would get back from Topaz State Park Probably tonight since it was Sunday School didn’t start for three more weeks but his friends all had summer jobs He’d had one too until this Thursday It hadn’t been his fault getting fired He’d arranged for a coworker to cover his Thursday 2
