Her mind was so filled with wonderful ideas of things to do to her brothers that she simply didn’t have time for sleep. By the time Monday morning came, her plan was complete. Her goal was to humiliate her brothers totally without letting them know—for sure—who was responsible. The only way to do that was to do it where they would never find out. For that, Stevie chose the girls’ room at her school. Stevie and her brothers all went to a private school in Willow Creek called Fenton Hall. A lot of the girls who rode at Pine Hollow also went to Fenton Hall, including Veronica diAngelo, a fact Stevie preferred to ignore most of the time. That Monday morning as she walked to school, putting the finishing touches on her plot, she particularly tried to ignore it. It wasn’t easy, though, since Veronica was walking right next to her, talking a mile a minute about something Stevie was sure she didn’t care the slightest bit about. “All the best people do it, you know,” Veronica said.
