re? I slowly tip toed through the house not wanting to awaken the sleeping dead, and just before I was about to give up, there it was looking as torn and tattered as ever. I picked it up and went to the kitchen table. Just as I sat down I could hear the footsteps of someone approaching me from behind. Thinking that I was in big trouble I tried to hide the book on my lap. Slowly turning arond and looking for the perpetrater I was relieved when I saw Judy out of the corner of my eye. "What are you hiding Brandon? What is that book?" As I strained to hide it from her view my grip weakened. Unable to hold it any longer the book slid from my grasps and fell to the floor with a thud that I thought would bring the sleeping dead back to life. Standing dumfounded in my jockey shorts in front of Judy was not what I had planned on doing that morning. The only thing I could do was lie. Lie like a dog. So thats what I did " I .. I .. uh .. was looking for something to eat and found this book, what do you think it is?" "Is that the magic book that my mom and dad told me about?''Uh... what book is that?''"The one on the floor that just fell out of your lap , duuhh!"''Oh this book, my parents told me it was passed down from generation to generations. I don't know what it is. I think its a cook book, yeah a cook book.'' "You lie Brandon, its the magic book my parents told me about, isn't it? you liar. Now let me see it."''No way, I found it, Judy its mine."Hey shut up before we wake the masters up.''''The masters, who are the masters?''"You know our parents."''Why do you call them masters?''''Because they are masters of black magic''''Black magic?''''Yea B.M. I'll be a master too one day''''Uh, yeah whatever. Judy come on do you want to see what is in this book?''"Of course I do" ''Then lets go outside, so we don't get in trouble with our parents.'' "I don't know if we should"''Lets go down behind the plaza there's a lot of open space back t...
