I go look for Esell’ s briefcase.” With that, Jacob rushed inside. John waited for a moment and started to walk down the driveway towards Mr. Esell’ s car. After several minutes, Jacob came out of the house empty handed.
“ I can’ t find it,” Jacob said dejectedly,“ We have to look somewhere else.”
“ I have something,” John said. He held up a penny in his hand which had been already split open. Jacob took the sheet of paper inside it and said“ Where did you find this?”
“ I found it in the car,” John replied. Upon seeing the look of anger on Jacob’ s face, he took a step backwards.
“ Why did you leave without my permission?” Jacob asked calmly, but there was a clear undertone of anger.“ You could have been discovered!”
“ I don’ t have to obey you Jacob!” John said more loudly than anyone had heard him before,“ I can do what I want without you being so overprotective!” John was furious now,“ Just leave me alone!”
Jacob was frightened by John’ s sudden anger. He started to say that he was sorry, but John brushed past him and ran
away.“ John, I’ m sorry!” Jacob called after him,“ Please, come
back!” He started to pursue John, but he couldn’ t catch up. Jacob realized that he was still holding the penny. He put it in his pocket and walked sadly to Tyler’ s house. He didn’ t see Mr. Esell’ s car in the driveway and his fears were confirmed. He ran up to the door and knocked on it.
“ Hi Mrs. Miller, do you know where Tyler is?” Jacob asked.
“ Tyler is in the basement, playing his games.” she replied. Jacob went to the basement where Tyler was playing his favorite video game Sontroid 3. Jacob started to speak, but Tyler held up a finger to hush him while he completed the stage. Jacob watched as Tyler destroyed robot after robot. He finally smashed the last with a brilliantly executed Wall Smash. Tyler turned off the console and turned to Jacob. Despite himself, Jacob was staring with envy. He himself had never been very good at the game.
“ That last one nearly got me,” Tyler said thoughtfully,“ I guess I just have to practice more.” Jacob was about to tell him that the last robot wasn’ t even facing