BM01. Bad Mermaids Make Waves by Sibéal Pounder

Author:Sibéal Pounder
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781681197944
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

16

Crime

Jawella’s disappeared into the distance. The mermaids waved as Ray and Riley Ramona sailed off in the shark’s jaws.

“Well, they were very nice,” Beattie said as they swam back to the roof, where they’d parked the Clamorado 7. In a nearby window Beattie could see a mermaid having a seaweed bath and humming to herself—the tune dancing out the window and bouncing around the empty alleys between the buildings.

Beattie stopped. Her heart lurched. She could see some thing in the clam car!

Something mermaid-shaped.

“Hey!” she cried, racing toward it.

“BEATTIE!” Zelda and Mimi called after her. “WAIT!”

The car took off, whooshing past Beattie—the mermaid at the wheel had a squid-ink mask painted across his eyes, like a human burglar.

“NOOOOOOOOO!” Beattie roared. “WE NEED TO GIVE THAT BACK!” She thought about chasing after him, but she’d never catch up, the clam car was too fast. She turned and looked at the shark with the saddle still tethered on the roof.

“BEATTIE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” she heard Zelda cry as she shot off on the shark, bouncing about in the saddle like a dancing jelly fish.

“Whuwhuwhuwhu!” she yelled, her whole face vibrating as the shark charged on. She tried pulling on the reins but it sent the shark spinning upside down. “Right side up!” she cried. “Right side up!”

The clam car was up ahead, weaving in and out of the tower blocks.

“GET THAT CLAM CAR!” Beattie cried, pulling the loose reins left and right, unsure if it was actually doing anything. She ducked and dived as the shark bent this way and that, weaving through the tower blocks like a pro.

The clam car took a sharp right and sailed through a window.

There was a scream. “GET THAT CLAM CAR OUT OF MY KITCHEN!” came a cry from the mermaid inside.

Beattie trundled through with the shark.

“AND THE SHARK!” the mermaid roared.

Beattie leaned forward in the saddle, getting her balance for the first time. She was gaining on the clam car! Closer and closer she got. She didn’t know if it would work but she found herself saying, “Bite it!”

The shark lunged and snapped down. The clam car shot forward.

“AGAIN!” Beattie cried, squeezing her eyes closed as the shark lunged and CRUNCHED!

She opened her eyes just in time to see the robber mermaid shoot out of the car and down an alley way.

“I WON! I BEAT CRIME!” Beattie yelled, brandishing a fist. She dismounted the shark, throwing the reins over its back and giving it a big pat on the neck. “Oh no,” she said, looking guiltily at the shark she’d stolen. “I’ve done a crime . . . We’ll just, um, drop you off back at that rooftop where we found you on our way out of here.”

Zelda and Mimi came swim ming over head. “There she is!” Mimi cried. “Down there, and she’s got the clam car!”

As they came closer Beattie could see Steve was hyperventilating on Mimi’s shoulder.

“Never. Do. That. Again. You. Are. My. World. Beattie.”

Beattie plucked him off Mimi’s shoulder and rubbed her nose against his.

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