The last disgusting item we needed to pick up was Pandora.

There was no school in Hog’s Head that day, so she was taking the bus to New York City. It dropped her off close by, so we strolled over to the bus stop to meet her. On the way, Diablo tried to attack no less than fourteen dogs while Archie sprayed everyone in the vicinity.

“I’m beginning to think that Diablo is a hopeless case,” Mom said finally.

I started worrying about his raisins all over again.

The bus had just pulled in when we arrived at the stop. We watched as people got off the bus, but no Pandora.

“Maybe she decided not to come,” Mom murmured.

The way she said that made me wonder if she was hoping Pandora wasn’t on that bus. She doesn’t think Pandora is a good girlfriend for Gunther. I know this because I read a text message that she wrote to Dad.

Finally, we caught sight of Pandora stepping off the bus. It was hard to miss her actually, because she had dyed her hair bright green. Plus she was wearing a silver cape. That’s right, a cape.

She said a word that I can’t put in this book.

Just at that moment a dog walked by and Diablo started going crazy as usual. I guess Mom was too surprised to keep Archie from whizzing all over the place. Instead, Archie just whizzed right on Diablo’s head. And guess what? That devil dog was so shocked, he stopped barking on the spot! The whole way home, Diablo was quiet as a mouse.

I hoped that meant he could keep his raisins after all, because this whole raisin thing was giving me the jim-jams.