“What’s that?”
He signed his name before the bell even rang.
“It is,” Mr. Chen agreed. He looked at Leo. “But you didn’t install anything. You didn’t hack the network. You just… found a loophole. That’s clever. And also very, very illegal per district policy.” He paused. “So I’m going to give you a choice.”
He opened a blank Google Doc. Then he did something that would have made his IT teacher faint. He typed not a URL, not a search, but a single line of code he’d learned from a two-year-old YouTube comment.
Leo did both. The sour cream flossed and screamed. It was terrible. It was glorious.
“We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays,” Mr. Chen said. “We have a Cintiq tablet. And the school Wi-Fi is fully unblocked.”
“Worse,” Mr. Chen said. “You’re going to help me fix the hole you found. In exchange, I’ll let you keep FlipaClip—on one condition.”