By the end of Christmas break the Get a Life list had 114 things on it. He started to do some really small things to put on the list, but then he thought go big or go home. He was going to make Hairy try to tell him something about his dad. He decided he would ask Matty if he would go with him so he went to find Matty at school. Matty got him a present and Rafe forgot to get him one. A really nice pen. Rafe felt bad that he didn't have a Chirstmas gift for Matty. Rafe asked if Matty would go back to Hairys with him so he can ask Hairy questions and Matty was happy to. It was a win-win situation.
He learned how to do a bunch of things life make Christmas cards and make apple pie with extra cinnamon, he clean the house, slept a full night in a bath tub, stared at a pencil for a solid hour, found a cockroach and a couple of other things. He also gave coupons to his mom, grandma and Georgia for anything they wanted him to draw. He drew portraits of them. It was the first time Rafe gave his own art as a real gift. Leo said that counted as 3 things for the Get a Life list instead of just one.
Rafe said that by Christmas break he was ready to go back to Operation Get a Life. His reason was that everything went bad after he ended it so he said if he starts it everything will go good. Now they are calling it "Operation Get A Life House Arrest Edition". Rafe would have to figure out a way to come up with all new ideas without ever leaving his house. He would have to use his imagination.
This chapter is all drawings of what Rafe and Leo the silent did during the day. Rafe uses his imagination to make the hours go by faster. He imagines Leo coming to rescue him by helping him escape school. He imagines Leo leading him out by a tunnel, then driving a car to Vegas underground tunnel, driving a car to Vegas where they win money. But he wakes up and realizes he was just dreaming and he is still stuck in school in suspension.
They did not say one word to each other on the ride home. After his mom found a parking spot and turned off the car Rafe could not take it anymore. He finally said that he was so sorry. She said that she is not really angry she is just very disappointed in him. Then he started to second guess himself about if he even belonged at cathedral. He thought that she was done being mad but he was wrong. She told him that he was grounded.
Rafe got sent to the office, and they kept him there till his mom could get there. Rafe was no long allowed to be in Mrs. Ling's sculpture class. Then Rafe had to apologize straight to Zeke's face. Zeke wanted more than an apology. Then Rafe got suspended for 3 days. Matty did the smart thing he waited in the girls bathroom until the coast was clear. Rafe said that it was not over yet, in a way the worst part was still to come.
Rafe could not concentrate in 5th period because he was too exited. Then the lunch bell rang and it was go time. They put their sculpture on the back table and headed downstairs like everyone else, but when nobody was looking they cut around auditorium. Then after Mrs. L left and went for lunch they went back up stair in to Mrs. L's room. They took the projects but then they hit their first road block, one of the janitors was right outside the boys bathroom which was right across the hall form where they had to go. Then he went inside and they went on. The second road block happened when Matty stopped short and Rafe bumped in to him and Zeke's project made noise. Then they heard someone coming up the stairs so they both had to hide. Rafe hid in a garbage can. Matty hid in the girls bathroom But the garbage was in front of the boys bathroom door and when Mr. McQuade came out of the bathroom the can falls down the stairs with Rafe and the sculpture inside. Rafe crushes the Zeke's project.
Rafe said that Matty never does anything halfway he always finishes what he starts. The chapter show us the drawing of the plan and the map of the school. The plan is to kidnap Zeke and Kenny's sculptures. They won't keep the sculptures, the idea is to keep them until they take the site down which makes fun of Rafe. Once they take the site down, Zeke and Kenny will get a note in their locker that tells them where to look. Rafe doesn't care if Zeke and Kenny know that he was the one who stole their sculptures. He said this is war and you're supposed to know who you're enemy is.
Rafe tells Matty about the fake page Zeke and Kenny made. Matty started drawing all different ideas to get beck at them. Matty said if someone gets back at them they are going to know who did it but they would never be able to prove it. Rafe said that he did not even know what Matty's idea was and he already likes it. Rafe found out that Matty was drawing a map of the school but he did not know why. He wrote 11:45 and Thursday twice on the paper. Then Rafe asks what happens at 11:45 on Thursday. Then he brought him up to speed and then he said they are going to kid nap their sculpture.
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