Party Crashers by Jonathan Roth

Author:Jonathan Roth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

SPLOG ENTRY #9:

An Arresting Development

I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Beep, the sweetest little alien ever, would never steal. It was impossible!

Then again, that valuable heart-shaped rock was in his hand.

Chief Trappz folded her arms. “I rest my case. Guards, arrest the guilty party.”

Beep clapped. “Party, yay! Now cake?” But his happiness turned to confusion when the guards bound his arms behind him.

“Wait!” I said. “Beep is innocent! He was never properly taught right from wrong.”

The chief huffed. “So you’re saying we should arrest his parents?”

I nodded. “Exactly.”

“Fine. Where are they?”

“Well, that’s hard to say, because—”

Beep pointed at me. “Bob-mother Beep mother! Bob-mother Beep mother!”

The chief rolled her eyes. “Cuff him, too.”

As they led us away, I tried to catch Lani’s eyes. But the second I did, she glanced down.

“Lani-friend no like shiny?” Beep said to me.

“Not if it belongs to the Neptunian Countess!”

Beep hung his head. “Beep only try make happy.”

“I know you did,” I said. “But people aren’t happy with gifts you steal.”

“Beep no steal!” he said. “Beep find.”

“Yeah. In your pouch. Which doesn’t exactly look very good. The main question is, how did it get there?”

Beep shrugged. “Fall from space?”

“Not very likely,” I said.

“Beep eat by mistake?”

“Possible, I guess.”

“Bob-mother put there?”

“Not me!” I said. “But I think you may be on the right track. Like Chief Trappz said, the real thief must have panicked when they learned we were all about to be searched. So they got near enough to plant it on you. But who?”

And then it hit me. I turned to the guards. “Wait! Stop! I know who stole the Heart of Neptune! And all the other stuff too.”

“Tell it to the judge,” a guard replied as he halted us in front of an open door.

“Is this”—I gulped—“the ship’s jail?”

The guard leaned closer and grinned. “Worse. These are your quarters.”

I looked inside. “Hey, Beep, he’s right. This is our room! Well, that’s not so bad. We still have over twelve million channels and—”

“Your quarters,” the guard went on, “with all the electronics turned off!”

“Wait, what? You mean no TV? No video games? No Internet? No—”

“No nothing!” he said. He uncuffed us and shoved us inside.

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