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Stick out of sight behind the stack of suitcases. It clattered against the rock wall, sounding awfully loud for a tiny bit of plastic filled with strawberry-flavored goo. I winced. If Kenny figured out what I was up to, I’d never hear the end of it. “What do you want?” I asked, mostly to distract him.
    He shrugged and let out a loud sigh. “I don’t know,” he said, kicking at the stony cave floor with the toe of one grubby sneaker. The interior of the cave was dim, and it was hard to see his expression as I peered at him, but he already looked pretty distracted. “I’ve just been, like, thinking about stuff. Like my zoo, and the hurricane, and how you and Josh had to come rescue me …”
    Did I forget to mention that part? The reason Josh and I ended up alone together during the hurricane was because of my brother. Kenny had spent a couple of days putting together what he called McFeeney’s Magical World of Island Wildlife and what most people wouldcall “a disgusting collection of creatures only a professional exterminator could love.” In other words, a bunch of bugs, toads, rodents, and lizards. This little zoo was located in a clearing about two-thirds of the way up the smallish mountain in the center of the island, and when the hurricane came howling down upon the island, what did my brilliant little brother decide to do? You got it—he took off up the mountain without telling anyone, determined to rescue his creepy crawlies from the storm. Josh and I wound up racing after him like a pair of demented marathon runners. We got lucky—the hurricane didn’t drop a tree on our heads or wash us out to sea, and when we got back to the beach, Josh pulled me aside just long enough to tell me he liked me. Oh, yeah, and to almost give me my first real kiss….
    I sighed at the memory, momentarily forgetting about Kenny. Then he started mumbling again about whatever it was he was mumbling about, and I snapped back to the present.
    â€œâ€¦ and I probably should have figured out about the storm and warned everybody, and—”
    â€œYeah, yeah. Whatever,” I interrupted him in mid mumble. “Uh, I mean, that’s okay. Nobody holds thatagainst you or whatever. So you can chill.” I was doing my best to hide my impatience. I could almost feel the seconds ticking away. Why hadn’t I checked my watch back at the coconutball court? I had no idea when that fifteen minutes Josh had mentioned had started, or how much time I had left.
    Then again, I couldn’t help being a little worried about Kenny. He definitely wasn’t acting like his usual obnoxious self at the moment. Thinking back to his earlier weird nonteasing behavior at the basketball game, I hoped he wasn’t coming down with the same personality-altering choo-choo disease that had already struck Mr. Truskey.
    â€œHey,” I said, interrupting him as he started to mumble again about his zoo and the storm. “You haven’t eaten anything … weird lately, have you?”
    He stared at me blankly. Then he smirked. “Yeah,” he said, a little bit of the usual Kenny gleam returning to his eyes. “I ate that fried coconut you made for dinner last night. It tasted like roof shingles.”
    I rolled my eyes, not bothering to ask how he knew what roof shingles tasted like. I really didn’t want to know. “Look, I have to go. Since you’re such a food critic,why don’t you go help Macy and Ned fix lunch?”
    â€œOkay,” Kenny said, sounding surprisingly agreeable. “Hey, Dani?”
    â€œWhat?” My mind was already more than half out of there.
    â€œDo you think we’ve ever going to get rescued?”
    I stopped short, staring at him. “What?” I exclaimed.
    â€œDon’t be a moron. Of course we’re going to get rescued.”
    I didn’t even bother going into detail. We all knew the drill. The second