𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝑣𝔢𝔯 ꨄ︎

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ

I was finally home scrimmaging through my "idea box" to find something to use against Ashley when I finally got to school. It was Friday and I had Saturday detention for a month so I could at least make this count.

"Find anything yet?" Arlo asked, throwing a small bouncy ball we won from the arcade 5 years ago on my wall. 

"No, but I think I know where to start." I reply, leading him on as I get up to walk to my drawer where I keep my electronic tools.

I pulled out a flash drive and said, "Boom." I smirked as I held it up to show Arlo, "This is what we're gonna use to take her down."

"Really. A flash drive." Arlo exclaimed nonchalantly.

"Yes, idiot, a flash drive!" I replied, "We hack into her gmail, pull up everything, and once we find some dirt, we use the flash drive to copy all the information. Then, we can save it and when we go to school, we can switch the school hard drive with this hard drive, and while they pull up the morning announcements-"

"Everyone will know how much of a bad person Ashley is!" Arlo interrupted, finishing my plan.

"Yup! Man… we are cruel." I pout, kind of feeling bad.

"Did you forget the times she humiliated you in front of everyone? And how she used your personal life against you?" Arlo questioned. He did have a point.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." I answered

"Okay then, now onto the plan." Arlo slyly said. 

He takes the flash drive, sticks it into the computer and finds Ashleys email and tries to set up the hack before turning to me, sadly.

"How about you do it? I have no idea how to and you're the computer wiz." 

Defeated, Arlo sat up as I sat down in the chair to show him how.

"First, you pull up the email. Then you hit the forgot password and enter at the same time. After that, you break the firewall with a simple word and it's done!" I looked at Arlo after I finished, smiling. 

It would be an understatement to say that his face was shaped like an oval. It was almost to the ground.

"Wow"

"I know right? It's a weird trick I learned myself from coding. I was already trying to get into the teacher's email but I pressed them both at the same time and that just happened. It was really weird though because I learned that she really likes bug anatomy. And eyeball diagrams." I explained.

All Arlo did was remain the same.

"Anyways, moving on!" I shouted, getting his attention, "Let's discuss this plan, shall we?" He nodded.

"Okay i'm thinking i go in first and leave the door open so you can go after i leave to detention and then you'll go to security and erase anything that just happened and stuff that is going to happen. But just you walking in, we can't have other stuff missing or else it's going to be suspicious. Then, after i give you time to do that, i'll use the old 'i have a small bladder i need to pee' trick to leave the class and head your way. And uh, I'll need a way to let you know it's me and not any other teacher so I'll just bang on the lockers three times. The office and the security rooms are right next to each other so just meet me outside security and well walk together. We'll do the old 'switch-a-roo', I'll go back to detention, we'll wait till Monday's announcements to show up, and when they do, vioala! Expose Ashley Mission? Complete!" I smile, feeling accomplished that we actually have a good plan.

"So? What do you think?" I ask Arlo, who's just staring at me.

"I don't know what to say, it's the best plan I've heard from you in my life!" He said, overjoyed for the same reason as me.

"Ugh i'm so glad we're on the same page. This would have sucked if we weren't." I explain, letting out a sigh of relief.

"So just to be clear, we definitely won't get caught?" He asks, unsure about my plan. I'd ask the same question myself considering this is the first time I've ever had a smart plan.

"Yes i'm sure. With the way i see it, we will be so invisible, casper won't even see us coming." I reassure. Usually if it's something in my opinion, it's already out of the question no doubts. But today must have been different because he didn't out my ideas.

"I sure hope so. I got to go, it's going to be dark soon. When does detention start?" Arlo concludes.

"10 am."

"Ugh it's just like school!" Arlo whines.

"I know I hate it." I groan, agreeing.

"Okay well call me if you have any more good plans. I think there's a lot today." He jokes, winking.

"Okay, curly fries." I wink signaling I'm joking back.

Arlo laughs as he walks out my bedroom door. As he leaves I sigh and get myself ready for tomorrow. It was going to be a long day.
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