It wasn’t a snow day. At breakfast, which was chocolate-banana pancakes and bacon, Rodger told Danny to come back that night if his father still wasn’t home, and if he was, to call and let them know he was all right. Bernie added, “I’m giving you two presents. One is, in case you hadn’t noticed, that little bit of eyeliner I put on you is permanent. And the other is, I’m going to teach you how to do an uppercut, and how to do just a bit of a secret-Ninja-assassin sidestep knee-kick with throat block, oh and three, an Aikido forward roll. This won’t take but two minutes. Come here.”
It took more like twenty minutes, but, Danny thought when he left, that with the permanent eyeliner, he was going to need those other moves. He shuddered, but he had seen his face and thought he looked hot, lik
