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
must not understand knitting or public art and has probably never even heard of yarn bombing or anything else cool I mean yarn bombers secretly put an exuberant sweater on the whole world That’s what I wanted to do with Ronny Ugh Nobody gets this stuff besides Adam Nobody gets me Zinnia Flossdrop Ms Amaranth my vice principal says as she approaches Just who I was looking for You’ll be spending the day in my office I close my shocked mouth and breathe through my nose What I can’t comprehend what she’s saying Detention Today My office I’m confused This is the last day of school And I didn’t even know you could get detention in the vice principal’s office I’ve only heard of the normal after school-in-the-library kind and I’ve never had that Pretty sure my mom’s bun would unravel if I did Dr Flossdrop is not the kind of person to approve of something that
involves sitting around doing nothing What do you mean I ask again You’re the one responsible for putting a costume on the school mascot says Ms Amaranth I want to tell her it isn’t a costume but that would be incriminating Why do you think I would do that Zinnia I’ve been informed that you’re a knitter She says knitter like it’s a bad word Who told you that Someone I can trust No one comes to mind I can trust besides Adam Operation Yarn Bomb was our secret and he was my accomplice I follow the vice principal’s gaze to the brownie and cupcake table Next to it stand Nikki Margot and Lupita my former friends The four of us were once a pack We used to roller-skate and have sleepovers and stay up late talking and laughing
