Section 6

We had a secret meeting after school, me Samantha, Lenny and Janine, and that is when, we decided that if the school wouldn't support a good cause, we didn't need them. Perhaps cutting school wasn't such a good idea after all, but we didn't even want to look at Mrs. Kuhn or Mr. Jones if possible. Maybe they don’t really care about the environment after all but we sure do! So that is when Lenny said we should stage a protest so everyone would know about how our water is being polluted. We snuck out during assembly on Friday.

It took us twenty minutes to get down to City Hall on the bus. You should have seen the looks we got. On the way out of school Lenny had grabbed some chains from the janitor's closet, his lock on his locker, and that is when he changed into the squirrel suit you saw on TV. I guess his uncle owns a costume shop. (Lenny always did have the most elaborate Halloween outfits of anyone in the neighborhood. Last Halloween he went trick-or-treating as a Lobster.). People on the bus moved as many seats away from us as possible. Even we didn't really want to sit next to Lenny. The rest of us had made signs with my slogan on them but none of us had agreed to chain ourselves to the front door of city hall. That was sort of a spur of the moment decision for me, Janine and Samantha.

The Mayor was inside City Hall giving a press conference so that is why the press was there. We blocked entrance and started yelling for all we were worth. The security guard came out and told us to get out of there and walked back in. We didn't know then he was making a call to our school. Lenny was really starting to freak out about how nobody cared about our cause and that is when he decided that we get more attention if we chained ourselves to the front doors. So that's what we did. Who knew that Lenny was such a spaz that he would forget his own combination? He said he was making a statement and wouldn't unlock us on account of principle, but when he passed out we figured that was all just baloney. Between you and me Aunt Kayla, the worst part was I had to go to the bathroom and that dummy, (you guess it) Lenny, just refused to let me go! If he had maybe I wouldn't have got caught.