He doesn’t seem smart enough to pick a lock, so maybe someone did it for him. When people are afraid of you, you can make them do pretty much anything. The first time he stole all of Benji’s stuff and left it in the mud outside by the track: backpack, gym clothes, textbooks, everything. Most of it we just threw in the washing machine, but cleaning the textbooks was a real pain. We had to wipe the pages, blow them dry with the hair dryer and then pile them under encyclopedias to try and flatten them because the pages had dried all puffy and wavy. They’re still readable, but I bet the school will make him pay for them at the end of the year. Now Benji carries his books with him from class to class, but he has to keep his coat and hat in his locker. Last week we found them in the lost and found. And then today, at lunch, we find Terry wearing them, dancing around pretending to be Benji, singing rude songs in a high voice that sounds nothing at all like the real Benji. “What are you looking at?”
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