Gabby Duran and the Unsittables by Elise Allen

Author:Elise Allen [Allen, Elise & Conners, Daryle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781484719428
Publisher: Disney Book Group

Gabby looked at the sea of her concerned—or just seriously freaked-out—classmates.

“We totally need to talk,” she told Zee. “Later.”

Gabby grabbed her purple knapsack, threw it over her shoulder, and raced out of the classroom at a full run, still clutching Wutt to her chest. She knew Zee wouldn’t follow. Zee had Art, but Gabby had fourth period free, and unlike Madison Murray, her free periods weren’t spent busting other people in the halls.

Gabby tore down the two flights of stairs to the music department. As she ran her phone rang.

Which was strange because she always turned it off before she left for school.

And it wasn’t so much ringing as it was honking. This hideous a-WOO-ga sound that she would never in a million years assign to anything, and that would bring every faculty member running with detention slips if she didn’t shut it up immediately.

Desperate as she was to make sure Wutt was okay, she had to stop the racket. She slowed to a walk and dug in her knapsack for the phone.

It was on and making that horrible sound, but nothing was on the screen except a little swirling wheel. That usually only happened when the phone had to shut itself down and restart. Was her phone broken? Even if it was, why was it making that noise?

Suddenly the sound stopped.

Edwina’s face replaced the swirling wheel on the screen.

“Well hello, Ms. Duran,” she said.

Gabby screamed and dropped the phone.

Edwina tsked. The phone had landed upside-down, so Gabby couldn’t see her, but she could imagine the lowered lids, the thin-pressed lips, the head shaking almost imperceptibly in disapproval.

“Really, Gabby?” Edwina said once Gabby picked up the phone again. “Phone dropping? I honestly thought we’d moved beyond that kind of melodrama.”

“What are you…” Gabby stammered. “How are you…How did you get in my phone?”

“The same way the tiny people got into your television set to act out your favorite shows,” Edwina said drily.

“I didn’t mean that,” Gabby blushed. “I meant—”

“I’d love to answer all your questions, but unfortunately I have no desire to do so. I do, however, have news that’s rather urgent and can only be delivered to you while you’re alone, which is now.”

Gabby looked around. It was true. Despite the way the phone had screamed, the stairwell was still empty.

“Can you hurry?” Gabby whispered. “I really need to do something.”

“Something as in make sure you didn’t bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate the tenth in line to the Flarknartian throne?”

Gabby’s stomach sank to her feet. How did Edwina know? “Something like that,” she admitted.

“Once a Flaknartian has assumed the shape of another object,” Edwina said, “he or she can only be damaged if that object is rent into pieces or punctured clean through. Was Wutt torn apart or impaled?”

“No!” The very idea made Gabby nauseous.

“Then you have bigger things to worry about,” Edwina noted. “It seems our anonymity was compromised. Somewhere at your school is a member of the underground Group Eradicating Totally Objectionable Uninvited Trespassers, a.k.a. G.E.T. O.U.T.”

“G.E.T. O.

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