CHAPTER 12

youtube in china

Later that night, we went to Command Central. My dad was supposed to be home, but his trip had been delayed—again. Now he wasn’t coming home from China until tomorrow night, so we had his office to ourselves.

Bones was always asking questions about my dad. I think mostly because he had never known his own father. “Lump, when your dad is in China, what does he actually do there?’

I didn’t know how to answer because I had no clue really, other than the fact that his company made security stuff that they assembled in a place called Bing Dang (or at least that was what it sounded like).

What I did know was that the company made boatloads of money, and I knew that mostly because Estelle liked to remind Gina and me about it as often as possible. She would say, “Your father’s company makes an astronomical amount of money, so you can have nothing but the finest.”

One day I was fooling around in my dad’s office and switched the logo from “King Security . . . The Crown of Safety First” to “BLING Security . . . Astronomical Things for Estelle!” My Dad bought Estelle a huge dia- mond for her birthday a couple of years ago. I think it was because he was traveling for a month straight, and she wasn’t very happy about it.

So I showed the new logo to Gina, and she laughed so hard. Then Estelle found it and I was banned from the office for a week.

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