Chapter 50

• My boyfriend and I teach my little sister
• I was listening to the radio, when the weather forecaster said there was an 80% chance of snow three days from now. Where we live, local school districts call school off if just a few inches fall overnight. The forecast said we could expect 2 - 3 inches on the ground by Thursday morning. That would mean that Tom, Emma and I would have no school that day. It also meant that my parents would still be going to work and we'd have the house to ourselves.
• "Here's what I'll do," I said to Tom. "I'll set my alarm early for Thursday morning and listen to the radio to see if school's been cancelled. If it is, I'll call you on your cell phone and let you know. You can come over after my parents are gone." We had a plan. I also had a way to make our "demonstration" seem totally unplanned.