Let's Play a Game

Let's Play a Game (31)

“What?”

Mr. Ranch stared at both Zach and me for a moment, and we had absolutely nothing to say about the baby that had exploded. I wouldn’t have been surprised if he didn’t believe us, even though we had other witnesses who song the thing explode.

I explained as much as I could to him, but that wasn’t very much at all. I barely even knew what happened, and I was hoping that he wouldn’t fail us just because our baby exploded. We wouldn’t be able to graduate if we didn’t pass this project.

“How about this,” Mr. Ranch started now, and I felt my breath catch into my throat. “I’ll let you two pass the project if you do one thing for me.”

“Anything!” I nearly shouted, and this caused Zach to elbow me in the side. Obviously he didn’t want me agreeing to do anything for another man, even if he was just a teacher.

Mr. Ranch laughed at Zach’s reaction, but we both stayed silent as we waited for our teacher to tell us what we had to do to pass the class and graduate.

“Bake a cake.”

Both of us stared at him for a moment before I couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”

Mr. Ranch laughed as he shrugged and said, “You two know that the school year is coming to an end sooner than we all think, and I’m sure the entire class will appreciate if you two bring in a cake to celebrate. This way, I won’t have to bake the cake myself, I can just have you two do it.”

So this was just so he could get out of work. Whatever, I didn’t really mind all that much. We were still going to be able to graduate, and all we had to do was bake a cake. This was so easy that it wasn’t even funny.

So the three of us all agreed that we’d bake a cake for the class party, and Zach and I quickly left Mr. Ranch’s room after we had settled everything. Our baby exploded, so we got to bake a cake. As strange as that sounded, it was what happened.

“Someone at the party had to have planted the bomb,” Zach informed me once he pushed the door open for me once we were finally at the front doors of the school. “But since most of the guests were kids, I don’t know who it could have been…”

“Aveline was there,” I couldn’t help but mutter, not wanting to think that she could have been the one who had blew up our baby doll, even when she had disappeared before everything had happened.

Zach stared at me for a moment, as if he knew what I was thinking. It was something that I couldn’t help but worry over, since everyone knew that Aveline hated me more than anything. She couldn’t stand me, and she never had been able to, even before I had Zach. That just fueled her hate for me even more.

“You don’t think Aveline would actually do something like that, do you?” Zach asked me now, and I knew he didn’t want to think that his friend was capable of doing something as horrible as this. “I mean, I know Aveline can be crazy… but not that crazy.”

Even though I had never liked her, I didn’t want to think that she was actually capable of something as horrible as trying to kill me. Not only that, but she had also hired two guys to kill me, if she was the one who had been behind all of this.

I didn’t know if it was Aveline I should have been fearing, or my mother’s family. As of right then, I was going to worry about both of them just to be safer.

Once we finally got home, we were surprised to see the items we needed to bake the cake already in the kitchen. We had planned to go out and buy what we needed, but it seemed that Brianna already had everything we needed.

“Hey, kids,” Steve greeted once he came down the stairs. “You guys don’t mind watching Ethan, do you? I’ve been called into the office, and both Brianna and Hank are at work. Is it okay if you just keep an eye on him?”