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Power and Liberty are like Heat and Moisture; where they are well mixed, everything prospers.

First Marquess of Halifax

MP LOG

So it was cool. We did the first two pranks. Just as I thought, everybody talked about them for days. People wondered who has the balls to do what we did.

In the third-floor hallway, I overheard someone say they wished they’d thought of this. But even if they had, they wouldn’t follow through. The truth is, no one’s ever done anything like what we’re doing for two reasons. One: deep down, people are afraid. They think they’ll get their asses kicked or their mothers will yell at them when they find out what they’ve done or they’ll get sent to the office. And two: you have to be smart to pull off stuff like this without getting caught. It’s brains, not muscle, that are important. You can always find the muscle you need, but you can’t make yourself more intelligent. That’s a fact.

Most times even the people who think they know you don’t, because they only see what’s on the outside. The outside’s a flimsy cover that no one takes the time to lift so they can see what’s really underneath.

Now people are saying they want to be MP—whatever MP is. It’s hard not to laugh out loud because no one has ever wanted to be me before. It isn’t only that I’ve become hard-core. It’s that I know something no one else does—exactly what MP stands for. No one else can understand because not one single person saw the message I left. If they had, they’d realize:

MP is power. The kind of power that sneaks up on people, smacks them in the face and makes them regret their sorry existence.