For Oliver and Sarah always ready for an adventure
One Hundreds of icy missiles buzzed overhead I was stuck in the middle Pow pow pow The snowballs pelted my back and legs stinging like crazy Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse thwack One smacked me right in the ear Head shot A thousand points shouted Jackson in his scratchy voice I dropped to my knees and hunched over A cold slug of ice slid down my neck Snowballs thumped all around me in the thin layer of snow With soggy grenades flying in all directions I didn’t dare look up The school’s intercom crackled and Principal Kirkland’s voice boomed across the field Students 1
are reminded that throwing snowballs is strictly forbidden Enjoy the snow For a heartbeat the snowballs stopped I had a quick look around Over by the forest Jackson and Mattie froze mid-scoop Their friends paused too On the opposite side of the schoolyard near the fence was another pack of kids holding their snow balls in the air I could see Koko and Lucas rolling a huge snowball up to them What were they doing Making a snowman Didn’t they realize we were in the middle of a full-scale battle We’re not throwing snowballs yelled Jackson at the school He was always hoarse like he’d been REBECCA WOOD BARRETT
cheering at a championship hockey game the night before We’re throwing iceballs I ducked my head as a battery of snowballs winged into the sky Whack whack whack Three of them nailed me in the back I had to get out of here I started to crawl on hands and knees toward Lucas and Koko They were the only ones definitely not attacking me Bam It seemed my backside was an especially popular target Then I caught one across the top of my head My toque went flying That was it I was done I spread out on the ground closed my eyes and covered my head with my arms as best I could Suddenly someone grabbed my hands I kept my eyes closed too terrified to open them or try to fight back They started dragging me across the snow I felt my pants sliding down the snow scraping my bare belly like burning hot coals I was sure that any second now they’d slide all the way down and then I would die of fatal embarrassment They stopped Rolled me over A purple toque with two big brown eyes peered down Henry are you okay It was Koko I blinked Lucas leaned over me too grinning Man you got pasted out there With his pointy nose huge 3 MY BEST FRIEND IS EXTINCT
