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Olivia had study hall after Social Studies and wanted nothing le Translate was the plan, but Bobby was already in study hall, with two sopho velour, the other had a T-shirt celebrating the Super Mario Bros Bobby was apparently part of the intersection between heavy ons weirdo, and was leading the saot online The latest French insult translated literally to, "You have the body of a dog and the IQ of a five-year" An IP lookup turned up nothing but an anonyistered to a cybersquatter, and the insults see popular French slurs Then Olivia felt a finger on her shoulder It was the boy in velour, hispered silently that she should join Bobby’s table

Bobby and the boys weren’t playing a gaame with rules Instead, they had created a ouija board of sorts out of piece of foolscap, and had an origa it to roll Bobby introduced the boys as Tyler and Charles, and then pointed to the results of their work so far

BRING GIRL HERE

Charles had been keeping the notes

"Who are you supposed to be talking to?" Olivia asked She wasn’t a skeptic, but the whole thing seemed rather ludicrous Ouija boards worked best when made from fancy wood rather than by Hasbro in some Mexican factory, and when used in dark rooirls Three dudes under the fluorescents using plain old paper couldn’t really get anything going But Bobby did get Olivia’s witchy-sense a’buzzin’, so she took a seat

"Robert’s grandmother," Tyler of the velour shirt said His arms looked like little pipe cleaners

"French?"

"Yes," Charles said Bobby wasn’t saying anything, just peering intently at Olivia

"What languages do you guys take?"

"Spanish," said Charles

"I tested out," Tyler said "I did take Latin when I was in Catholic school" Everyone looked at hi?" Olivia asked the piece of foolscap before her It seeood a place as any to direct her query The boys put their hands on the planchette and it uys are prankingelse," Bobby said