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with copper wires and adjusted the current, focusing her ruffled mind on the task at hand. After the strange encounter at the aquarium yesterday, she was glad to be home in her solarium laboratory—a haven from the crazy world.
    â€œOkay … the butterscotch pudding is now a chemically enhanced polymer with volatile additives soaked in ionic fluid to aid in conductivity,” she exhaled, trying to keep talking octopi out of her mind. It didn’t help that her tangled curls kept getting stuck in the pudding and looked remarkably like floppy tentacles.
    After a few more pokes, she shouted, “Huzzah! I think I’ve got it!” to all her lab pets.
    â€œMmm—I don’t know if I should eat it or run from it,” said Sugar, standing in the doorway, perfectly lined eyebrows arched high as ever.
    â€œProbably both.”
    â€œBy the way, Mrs. Gates called and said you disappeared from the field trip yesterday, again .”
    â€œI got a little distracted.” She gave the little cube another rough stab. Of course how many people get distracted by talking to an octopus? That’s not the typical way to get lost on a field trip.
    â€œListen, girl, I know you get a little bored in class, but that is no reason to be taking your personal tours on school field trips. What’s your momma going to say? She works at the aquarium lab, and Mrs. Gates gave her an earful about your behavior yesterday.”
    Lizzy groaned.
    â€œShe’s just mad because I know more about the aquarium than she does.”
    â€œMmmhm—there you go again.”
    Lizzy looked up at Sugar behind over-sized lab goggles.
    â€œI can’t help it, I do . Golly! Mrs. Gates has it out for me.”
    â€œIt may be true that you know more, but it won’t help your grades if you get on the science teacher’s last nerve,” she chided.
    Lizzy checked the electric current running through the wire. This’ll be tricky. Ordinarily she double and triple checked her calculations where volatile ions were concerned, but today she couldn’t get anything right.
    She picked up a small metal box and gave Sugar a warning look. “You might want to stand back a little. I’m trying to figure out a more efficient way to fuel rocket engines, and if I’m right, this could be a bit—”
    BOOM!
    An earsplitting crack filled the room, and the small pudding cube exploded into a hundred soft little missiles, covering them and the solarium in yellow slime. A deafening silence followed in which Sugar’s face went from keen interest to shocked horror, all in a fraction of a second.
    â€œ … messy ,” Lizzy squeaked out.
    â€œLIZZY GRAPE!” shouted Sugar. Her eyes were round, blazing orbs behind a drippy mask. She looked like one of those wax figures at the museum that had been left out in the sun too long.
    â€œ Wow! I had no idea the charge would be that strong.”
    â€œJust look what you did to the table!”
    Lizzy looked down. A tennis-ball-sized blast hole had taken out the corner of her worktable. She opened her palms and shrugged.
    â€œYet another hole in the table for science?” she said contritely. This wasn’t the first time she had wrecked the solarium furniture, and probably not the last. She slid the smattered goggles onto her forehead and surveyed the damage around her. Catching sight of Sugar’s hair, she began to giggle uncontrollably.
    â€œ What ? What did you do!”
    â€œWell, look on the bright side. Your flaming magenta hair looks smashing with butterscotch highlights!”
    Sugar cracked a smile and fluffed her coiffure.
    â€œDo you like it? It’s called pink-pizzazz , this one.”
    Lizzy took a long, deep breath. The beginning of summer was getting off to a rough start. She slumped down to the floor, sticky curls falling around her shoulders like gooey ropes.
    â€œThat shouldn’t have happened. The protein in the