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get out of this mess. Josh ducked, missing the first punch, but Bertram swung again.
    Kevin didn't have time for a brainstorm, so a moderate brain drizzle would have to do. With all of his might he leaned against one of the boulders in front of him, until it crashed to the ground with a thud.
    "Avalanche!" said Kevin.
    "Huh?"
    Bertram and Hal were distracted for only an instant, but that's all it took for Josh to slip away.
    Kevin and Josh ran off together, thinking they had made an easy escape.
    Then they saw a storm of boulders smashing down the slope toward them.
    Suddenly Bertram didn't care about who had been laughing at him. He and Hal took off as the rumble around them grew louder and the boulders pounded closer.
    Josh turned to run as fast as his legs could carry him, but Kevin just stood there, like a rabbit frozen on the highway, watching doom approach at sixty miles per hour.
    Kevin's particular doom was a boulder twice his size, pounding down the mountain. He watched as it bounced toward him. It flattened a tree stump, then hit a sharp rock and split in two. The boulder parted around Kevin, brushing both his shoulders at the same time.
    When Kevin turned, he saw Josh, who looked like a bowling pin with legs as he danced to avoid the stones rolling toward him. When the last of the boulders had passed, Josh breathed a sigh of relief and began screaming at Kevin.
    "What the hell's your problem?" yelled Josh. "Why did you just stand there?"
    Kevin felt nothing—not fear, not anger. He felt numb—one hundred percent numb.
    He spoke very slowly. "There was no avalanche, Josh."
    Josh caught his breath and tried to stop shaking. "What do you call this? A hailstorm?"
    "Well, yeah, there was an avalanche," said Kevin, "but I mean there wasn't an avalanche when I said there was."
    "Yeah?" said Josh. "Well, maybe the rocks just fell out of your pinhead!"
    The glasses had fallen during the avalanche, and when Kevin picked them up they were hot, as if they had been in the sun too long.
    "It's lucky they weren't smashed," said Kevin.
    "It's lucky we weren't smashed," said Josh, looking around him. "Let's get out of here. This spot must get avalanches all the time."
    But Kevin knew that wasn't the case.

 
     
     
    CHAPTER 5
    Unmerciful Chocolate Destruction
    The moment the avalanche ended, a storm began brewing in Kevin's mind.
    While everyone jabbered on about the avalanche, and while the teachers thanked their Maker that no one was hurt by it, Kevin sat alone on one of the fallen boulders and stared with steely concentration at the mountain. It seemed robbed of its color today, remaining chalky white at sunset. The glasses, however, burned a silvery orange.
    The thoughts swimming in Kevin's mind could have been products of his overactive imagination or the result of a lack of sleep and digestible food, but Kevin had a growing sense that something more was at work here. After the events of this afternoon, he was finding it harder and harder to believe that his glasses had been left behind on the mountain by some ultracool hiker who wanted to stake a claim.
    "What would you say, Josh, if I told you thatthese glasses were magic?" Kevin whispered as he and Josh waited in the long dinner line.
    "I would say you've been reading too many comic books."
    The line crept slowly toward Mr. Kirkpatrick, who was dishing up some slop everyone was calling Hamburger Helpless.
    "What if I told you I could prove it?" asked Kevin.
    "Then I would say the avalanche knocked some of your screws loose."
    Kevin knew that Josh was the kind of kid who wouldn't believe anything until he saw it. So Kevin grabbed his arm and pulled him out of line.
    "Hey, what's the idea?" yelled Josh. "I haven't eaten all day. I'm starved!"
    "Follow me. It'll only take a second." Kevin led Josh off into the woods until the sounds from the campsite were far away, and he was sure no one could hear them.
    "Okay," said Kevin. "Here's the proof: One, I told Bertram to jump in