The Vandals E-Book

Preston Randall

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Summer's coming to a close and it's time to get ready for high school, but the gang decides to wreck their own neighborhood. Why would they do that?

Leseprobe

Preston Randall

The Vandals

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Conrad picks up the garbage can, grunts because of its weight, staggers through the gate to the back yard and heaves it into the swimming pool. There is a loud splash and in the moonlight you can see banana peels and crap starting to float out all over the place.

“Ha ha, just look at that shit,” Conrad says. Then Baines does the same with a second can, except he doesn’t grunt because he’s twice the size of Conrad and probably could have tossed in the station-wagon as well without breaking a sweat. In the nearby house, an upstairs light goes on and the curtains move as someone peers out.

“C’mon, run!” shouts Arlan. Being somewhat chubbier than the rest of us, he needs a head-start and doesn’t want to get caught by some angry homeowner.

We hustle off down the alley as we hear the back door of the house open and someone yells “Jesus Christ!” Conrad laughs like a maniac with this annoyingly loud cackle but before joining us he smashes out a lightbulb and an expensive-looking fixture hanging over the garage door near the gate. He wears a hockey glove on his right hand expressly for this purpose.

This has been going on all summer. One night it’s garbage cans but the next might be car aerials (which snap off nicely with a good swipe). Or it might be hood ornaments which are a little tougher than aerials, but not much. And sometimes there are outrageous acts even Conrad is hesitant to repeat, at least not right away.