Completely untrue I say my eyes practically cresting my forehead Adam smiles at me You can do anything Zin Remember that he says before returning to guard duty I go back to winding the scarf around Ronny’s neck On the last twist a car horn honks and Adam and I both jump I instinctively hide behind Ronny and Adam drops the duffel bag to leap behind a shrub But no car pulls up and nobody appears Campus remains still Since the honk was a false alarm I pop back out from behind Ronny For a moment I don’t see any sign of Adam That is until he emerges from the foliage pretending to walk up an imaginary staircase He gets taller and taller the shrub first at his shoulder then his waist then his knee Hold on he says I need to go downstairs for a second Then he turns around to walk down an imaginary
staircase too I laugh as quietly as I can Watching Adam’s pranks never gets old but still we have a yarn bomb to finish before the sun comes up Want to put on the final touch I ask Adam bounds over the shrub and back to the statue He reaches into his bag to retrieve the last part of Ronny’s ensemble a length of metallic gold fringe With a flourish he wraps it around the rattlesnake’s tail where it twinkles like tinsel Then we stand back to admire the new Ronny almost every inch of him now covered in yarn What do you think I ask Adam Fancy rattlesnake he says More than fancy Spectacular Amazing He balls up the duffel bag and tosses it in the air before catching it The sky is growing brighter now our signal that it really is time to go Farewell Ronny the Amazing says Adam as the sun
rises over our rattlesnake yarn bomb Team Flossdrop forever I say We spin in a circle twirling and fist-pumping the air the sky above us tangerine swirls Adam was right This is the best ever The very best
2 YARN-BOMB FLOP Adam was wrong Two hours later I’m back at school and this time I am definitely not fist-pumping the air The rest of campus is happy and bubbling about summer vacation starting There’s even a table set up with brownies and cupcakes I’m the only one not happy Ronny the Rattlesnake is naked again Someone must’ve taken off his adornments Someone
