Chapter 9
I manage to text my mom before Judy comes back with our drinks. Which is nice, because I feel like an i***t. I don’t need to make matters worse by sending texts in front of her, you know?
While I’m thinking this, I’m also thinking that I’m even more idiotic and full of myself than I originally thought. Judy walks in with the drinks and says, “You want to play Happy Hamster? It’s kind of like Sonic the Hedgehog, but different. It’s an old game, but I love it.”
“Okay, I guess. I’m not usually very good at computer games. And I’ve never played Sonic. How does it work?”
“Well, in my game, you try to raise this hamster to higher and higher levels. All these obstacles appear. And you have a limited amount of time to move the hamster past them. It’s a little tricky, at first. But it
