Finding Cassie Crazy (13 page)

Think up a way to stop me having to do my Science exam on Wednesday. The Science teacher is ‘the Rattler' if that helps. Also known as ‘the Rattlesnake'. Maybe you want to kill him?

FIELD NOTES:
Okay, you broke me down. These are exam avoidance techniques. I can't think of any other way to disguise them.

FIELD NOTES 2:
You talk about your friends Emily and Cassie a fair bit. Are they as hot as you?

Dear Seb

I forgive you for the exam thing because I knew it all along. Also because I loved the ribbons around the trees in the park. Thank you v. v. much.

Em and Cass came over to my place on the weekend and we just watched movies and listened to music and painted walls etc. On Sunday we went shopping, and we were at this café and there was a bowl of sugar sachets in the middle of the table. Cass was looking at the sugar and she suddenly said, kind of quietly, ‘huh' and she took out her mobile and dialled a number and said, in a polite voice, ‘Yes, I'm really interested in finding out more about this sugar, please?'

Because she had found a number on the side of the sugar to Call If You Want More Information About This Sugar. She kept a straight face the whole conversation and that's exactly the way Cass is funny when she decides to be funny.

I've found the person you mentioned. Don't worry about studying for the Science exam.

But I don't see how this helps you. In the end, you'll have to do the exams, right? So why do you keep putting it off?

Lydia

Dear Lydia

You STOLE THE EXAM PAPERS FROM HIS CAR????

How did you even know what kind of car he drives? You rock. You're a classic. You're as beautiful as a Beckham free kick and as wicked as that Maradona header. I'm thinking about taking off my shirt and sending it to you. I'm that in love with you.

You realise that's THREE challenges you have succeeded in for me without a single thing going wrong?

You know what you are?

You are Argentina.

In particular, I'm thinking of the fact that Argentina beat Japan, Jamaica and Croatia without conceding a single goal in the first three games of the World Cup in 1998.

This time you have to let me take you out to say thank you. I'm not accepting a no.

Your Number 1 Fan

Dear Seb

Thanks for your praise about the stolen exam papers. But I can't take personal credit. I have a friend with a talent for locks. You don't need to know any names.

I don't understand why you want to meet in person. Try to remember something: you don't know what I look like.

You need to see a person to know what they look like. Did you not know that?

Lydia

Dear Lydia

I bet you a thousand dollars you are the most gorgeous girl in the county.

Seb

Dear Lydia

You haven't written for five days. Where are you and when can we meet? I know that you are beautiful.

Seb

Dear Seb

Okay, just to prove how wrong you are, I've decided that we CAN meet. I've thought about this a lot, and I've figured something out.

It will be a double secret assignment and the aim is to identify the other person first.

What we're going to do is, I'm going to tell you a place and a time and we both have to be at the place at the time, and
we have to figure out which one the other person is before the other person figures it out.
Does that make sense?

I haven't decided yet where the place will be but it will be somewhere crowded and noisy. And I think it will be the last day of term before the holidays.

Gotta go

Lydia

Dear Lydia

Okay. What time will we go to the crowded/noisy place where I have to figure out which one you are before you figure out which one I am?

Seb

Dear Seb

You are so going to lose this.

I've figured out all the rules now. This is them:

Tell me if you agree with the rules or not.

Lydia