“Come on. Let’s get out of here before somebody comes. They were bound to have heard all that.”

I nodded toward the part of the building where the priests and nuns lived. Lights had come on in some of the windows.

“I don’t want to get you guys in trouble.”

“Yeah,” Sleepy said, getting up.

“Well, you might have thought of that before you snuck out, huh?”

We left the way we’d come in. Like me, David had wriggled in beneath the front gate, then unlocked it from the inside and let Sleepy in.

We slipped out as quietly as we could and hurried to the car, which Sleepy had parked in some shadows, out of sight of the police car.

Still, I didn’t want to risk anything by trying to sneak past the officer and retrieve my bike.

We just left it there and hoped no one would notice it.

The whole way home, my new big brother Jake lectured me.

He thought I’d been at the school in the middle of the night as part of some sort of gang initiation.

I kid you not.

He was very serious about the whole t