The Mystery of the Blue Ring by Patricia Reilly Giff

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff [Giff, Patricia Reilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ages 5 and up
ISBN: 9781453220399
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-06-28T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

“GOTCHA!” SOMEONE YELLED.

Dawn reached up. She pulled at the thing on her head.

It was ripping.

Crackling.

What was it?

“Thief!” the voice yelled.

“Help!” Dawn screamed.

She tore at the thing.

It came off in her hand.

A paper bag. Jason’s paper bag.

And there was Jason. “Thief!” he yelled again.

Then his mouth opened. He looked at her. “Dawn Bosco?”

Dawn took off her glasses. She put them in her pocket. Then she began to pull on her boots. “I’m getting out of here,” she said. “You’re crazy, Jason Bazyk.”

“Dawn Bosco,” he said again.

“You were trying to kill me.”

“Dawn Bosco,” he said for the third time.

Dawn pulled on her other boot. “Don’t keep saying that.”

“I thought someone was following me,” he said in a loud voice. “A little old man in a huge polka dot hat. With eyeglasses. With eyebrows.”

Dawn put her hand up to her face.

“Only one eyebrow now,” Jason said. “It’s stuck on your forehead.”

He sat down on the floor. “Whew. I’m glad it’s you.”

“What are you doing here?” she asked. “Sneaking around.”

“I’m going to be a detective when I grow up.”

“Hey,” said Dawn. “Me, too. Or a school crossing guard.”

“I’m trying to find something out,” Jason said. He stood up. “Who took Emily Arrow’s ring?”

“That’s why I’m here,” said Dawn. “It wasn’t me.”

“I didn’t think so,” said Jason. “Let’s go.”

“I’m ready. Where?”

Jason shook his head. “I don’t know.”

“To the art room closet. Of course. That’s where it started.”

“Wait a minute,” Jason said. He turned his head. “Did you hear a noise?”

“Lots of noise,” Dawn said. “You talk loud. You walk loud, too.”

“That’s what my mother says,” Jason said. “I hear another noise, too.”

“It’s Jim,” said Dawn. “He’s cleaning.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t be here.” Jason looked worried.

“Jim won’t mind. We can ask him about the ring. Maybe he found it last night.”

They started down the hall.

Dawn stopped to look out the window. “I think it’s going to rain.”

“I’m supposed to be home when it rains,” said Jason.

“Don’t worry. We have time,” Dawn said. She took a breath. “Uh-oh.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Do you still hear that noise?”

“You mean Jim?” asked Jason. “Sure I do.”

Dawn pointed. “Jim’s outside. He’s raking leaves.”

Jason looked down the hall. “Someone’s there,” he said.

“Maybe a teacher,” Dawn said. “Maybe someone forgot his homework.”

“We could go home,” Jason said. “It’s going to rain anyway.”

“Let’s see who it is,” Dawn said. She started down the hall. “We’ll take a peek.”

She looked at her boots again. “I have to take them off,” she whispered. “They make too much noise.”

She slipped them off quickly.

She left them in the hall.

“I think someone’s in the music room,” Jason said.

“Or the art room,” said Dawn.

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