"This is an advent calendar," Nico says. "For the next twenty-five days, one of you will do something as a surprise for the school. Vinny, for obvious reasons, you get the big day."
"What obvious reasons?" Vinny asks, looking up from his newest cookbook. "Wait, what's going on?"
"You're cooking Christmas dinner," Lance says as everyone else starts laughing.
"The rest of you, well, I just tossed you onto random days," Nico says, shrugging. "You can ask for help, as long as you keep it to two people or less, and pay them back in return. If you ask an adult, you can only have that one adult, and you owe them a favor of equal size. That means no asking me to make the entire school new computers--you can't afford to pay me back. Don't ask Zoe for that, either, because she will have you as an indentured slave until they're paid off."
"I wouldn't--" Zoe protests. "Well, no more than a year, at most," she adds thoughtfully. Every single kid in the room silently swears not to ask at that statement.
*This book also contains shorts:
Christmas Eve: Jack goes back to the start on Christmas Eve
Christmas Diamonds: Nico goes hunting for diamonds
Deadly Darlin's: Skye, Doris, and Ariel move (back) to Texas
"This is an advent calendar," Nico says. "For the next twenty-five days, one of you will do something as a surprise for the school. Vinny, for obvious reasons, you get the big day."
"What obvious reasons?" Vinny a...
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