Goldilocks Breaks In by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Back in her dorm room after dinner that evening, Goldie waited anxiously to hear if she’d been approved for membership in E.V.I.L. She tried working on a knitting project she needed to finish for Threads class by next Monday, but worries about her interview with Ms. Wicked wouldn’t stop coming and she kept tangling her yarn and dropping stitches.

Polly knew about the interview, but Goldie hadn’t yet filled her in on what happened during it. Unfortunately, they couldn’t really discuss the matter openly, with spies like Malorette and Odette rooming right next door.

At last, feeling fidgety and desperate to know the answer to one burning question, Goldie grabbed a sheet of vellum paper from her desk drawer. Quickly, she wrote: Ms. W’s going to assign me a job to make me prove myself worthy of Society membership. What kind of job do you think it’ll be? Then she folded the note into a winged, birdlike shape and flew it up to Polly, who was already sitting on her bed in a nightgown, reading a book titled Tea Parties of the Rich and Famous.

When the paper bird landed on her book, Polly unfolded the note and read it. Then she scribbled an answer. After refolding the note, she flew it down to Goldie at her desk.

An evil one, she’d written as her reply.

Goldie grinned up at her, and they giggled. Then they both glanced warily at the wall next to Polly’s bed and tried hard to stifle their laughter. It was always on their minds that Malorette and Odette might be listening through that very wall.

Goldie flattened the paper on her desk and wrote another message below the one Polly had written: M and O said artifacts were going missing from the library a while back. Did they have anything to do with that? Wondering if they stole something to get into the Society. And if so, what? Then she refolded the paper into a bird and flew it back up to Polly.

Polly read her note, then looked up and nodded in answer to her first question. Since there wasn’t much room left on the paper bird to write anything, she silently mouthed the words Peter Peter Pumpkineater’s pumpkin in answer to the second question. With her forefingers, she drew a big pumpkin in the air.

Goldie nodded to show that she understood. Hmm, she thought as she took out her pj’s and started getting ready for bed. She’d seen Peter Peter’s pumpkin on a shelf in the library not long ago, so that must mean it had been returned after Malorette and Odette stole it.

So maybe whatever evil thing she wound up doing as her Society initiation job could be undone afterward. She hoped so. Would she be asked to steal something as well? Luckily, locked doors and cabinets were nothing her pearl-flower hairpin couldn’t handle.

“Wish you could’ve been at that meeting today,” she said to Polly, forgetting to whisper as she climbed the ladder up to her bed.

“Shh!” hissed Polly, holding a finger to her lips.

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