Abby and the Mystery Baby by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

The mystery notebook is another BSC tradition. Remember when I said that the BSC has helped to solve a bunch of mysteries? Well, after the first few, we figured we needed a central place to keep track of clues and suspects and things. (Up until then, everybody had made notes on whatever was handy: paper napkins, math tests, etc. It wasn’t a very efficient system.) Now, whenever we have something important to write about a mystery we’re working on, we do it in the mystery notebook. And, once I started writing about the mystery of Eli’s appearance, everybody else did, too. The notebook was passed around a lot for a few days.

My first entry was about some sleuthing I did to follow up on the one measly little clue I’d turned up so far: that drugstore receipt I’d found in the driveway.

I had almost forgotten all about it. Then, after school on Tuesday (the same day that Jessi and Mal were having so much fun at the Pikes’), I suddenly remembered.

I ran home from school, as usual, and went inside to find Erin playing peek-a-boo with Eli on the couch. He was gurgling with laughter as she hid her face behind a pillow and said, “Where’s Erin? Where’s Erin?” When she pulled the pillow aside and said, “There she is!” Eli’s face would light up with this huge smile. Obviously, he was very satisfied with his nanny.

I couldn’t find anything to dislike about Erin, either, although you wouldn’t find me smiling at her quite so happily. I still thought her behavior was odd. For instance, one day I walked into the kitchen while she was reaching into the lowest vegetable drawer. “Hi, Erin,” I’d said. That was all. But you’d have thought I’d pulled a machine gun on her. She straightened up fast, blushed, stammered, and finally just ran out of the kitchen.

Anyway, she and Eli were happy together, and that was the most important thing. I knew there was no way we could have kept Eli without her help, so I tried to overlook her behavior.

That day, I said hi to Erin and I bent down to greet Eli. “Hello, snugglebear,” I said softly, rubbing noses with him. “How’s my little pumpkin?”

He smiled up at me, a little cross-eyed since our faces were so close, and I could have sworn it was a special “Hi, Abby” smile. My heart melted. I was falling more and more in love with that boy every day.

It wasn’t easy to turn away from him, but I’d run hard that afternoon and I was more than ready for a hot shower before settling down with my homework. I gave Eli one last kiss on the cheek and headed upstairs.

After my shower, I decided I’d better do some laundry. With a baby in the house, the dirty clothes sure were adding up fast. I began to gather my clothes and throw them into a pile. That’s when I found the receipt. It was in the

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