Action! by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene [keene, carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Fiction, General, Mystery and Detective Stories, Girls & Women, Action & Adventure, Drew; Nancy (Fictitious Character), Detective and Mystery Stories, French, Children's Stories, Motion Pictures, Foreign Language Study, Accidents
ISBN: 9780689865718
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2004-07-06T05:00:00+00:00

The Mountain Lion Attack

I woke up late the next morning, as usual. The first thing I thought about was how I had snapped at George. I glanced at the clock. It was almost eight thirty. George is an early bird. She was probably at the set already. I didn’t want to bother her at work, so I would have to call her later.

Thinking about George reminded me of the fire at Jeffrey Allman’s house. George had mentioned that she was making progress in salvaging his hard drive. I wished again that I hadn’t cut her off—she’d probably been trying to tell me something important about the mystery of who set the fire. Would Mr. Allman’s laptop help us find the answer? It was possible that his old computer files from Rackham Industries would contain information leading to a suspect.

I wished I could have focused on a nice, juicy mystery like that one. It would have been much easier than trying to figure out why I was so nervous all the time on the set!

I sighed and picked up the revised script pages I’d gotten last night. I only had one scene today, in the late afternoon. But the whole thing had changed a lot since the last time I saw it. Luther and Althea seemed to keep making my part bigger every time they did a rewrite. The original scene had contained only two lines of dialogue for Esther. The revised scene had two whole pages of new dialogue for me to memorize!

There was a knock on my door, and Hannah stuck her head in.

“Morning, Hannah,” I said.

She stepped inside and frowned at me, her hands on her hips.

“Uh-oh,” I said. “What did I do wrong?”

“You ate the dinner I left you last night,” Hannah said.

I nodded. She had left a whole plate of her meat-loaf and vegetables wrapped up in the fridge. I’d been so hungry by the time I got home that I stuck it in the microwave and gobbled the entire thing. “It was delicious,” I told her. “Thanks.”

“You left your dirty plate sitting out on the table,” Hannah said. “With the dirty tin foil lying next to it, and the dirty utensils on the table too.”

I grimaced. How could I have forgotten to clean up after myself? Hannah hates anything dirty on the clean table. “Yikes!” I cried. “I’m sorry, Hannah. I got home so late, and it was such a bad day …”

Immediately Hannah’s frown disappeared. She studied my face for a moment, then took a seat on the foot of the bed.

“Why was it a bad day?” she asked.

“I kind of messed up a lot during filming,” I admitted.

“Did you forget your lines?”

“No.” I shrugged helplessly. “I didn’t even have any lines. I was just sitting there writing in a diary.”

“So how did you mess up?” Hannah asked. “You never ‘mess up’ anything!”

“Oh, come on, Hannah. I got nervous, so I didn’t look natural,” I told her. “The director helped me out a lot.

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