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December 22

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The McCallister Residence
8:30 P.M.
The entire clan was gathered in the living room. Buzz and Kevin sat in chairs in
front of the fireplace, facing them. It was like being on trial, with Kate as the
prosecutor and the rest of the family, the jury.
"Buzz, you're the oldest so you'll go first," Kate said.
Buzz stood up and cleared his throat. He stared down at the floor.
"I want to apologize to all of you for whatever displeasure I caused. And I want
to apologize to my brother." Buzz turned to Kevin. "I'm sorry, Kevin. My prank
was immature and ill-timed."
"Immature or not, it was pretty hilarious," Uncle Frank said. The other adults
glared angrily at him and he sank down into his chair.
"I can assure you all that there will be absolutely no more shenanigans from me,"
Buzz continued with the most phony apology Kevin had ever heard. "Christmas
is a sacred, happy, family, together, loving, caring, getting-along-time-of-year,
and everybody in the family of man should go along with that. . . . Amen."
Kate smiled proudly. "That was very nice, Buzz."
Kevin's jaw dropped. He couldn't believe his mother had actually believed that
garbage. Meanwhile, Buzz turned back to Kevin. When Buzz was certain no one
else in the family could see him, he curled his lips back and grinned maliciously
at Kevin, wiggling his retainer with his tongue.
"Try to beat that, you little trout sniffer," Buzz whispered. Then he sat down in
his chair, looking repentant.
"Kevin?" Kate said. "What do you have to say?"
Kevin rose and stared at them. He couldn't believe that they'd bought all the lies
Buzz had just told. Couldn't they see that Buzz was yanking their chains? As
Kevin looked into their eager, expectant faces, he could see that they'd been
totally conned.

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totally conned.
Well, Kevin thought, I'm going to tell them the truth.
"I'm not sorry," he said defiantly. "I did what I did because Buzz humiliated me
and, since he gets away with everything, I let him have it. And since you're all so
stupid to believe his lies, I don't care if your idiotic Florida trip gets wrecked.
Who wants to spend Christmas in a tropical climate anyway?"
A shocked silence fell over the McCallisters. Then Uncle Frank jumped up from
his chair and pointed a threatening finger at Kevin. "You better not wreck my
vacation, you little sourpuss. Your dad's paying good money for this trip."
Kevin just smirked. Typical, he thought, and then turned to leave.
"Stop, Kevin!" Kate shouted.
"If you walk out of here, you'll sleep in the attic!" his father yelled.
Kevin looked back at them and shrugged. "So what else is new?"

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