The Stolen Unicorn by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Julia stopped walking and stared at Brenda. “That’s it,” she mumbled under her breath, and marched over to Brenda.

Before Nancy could stop her, Julia had turned her lunch tray upside-down—and dumped her mystery-meat sandwich all over Brenda’s head!

5

Mystery Meat Mess

Brenda sat frozen in place as gravy dripped down her face and hair.

The entire room burst out laughing.

Nancy covered her mouth to hide her smile. She noticed Mike and Jason at the next table. They were holding their stomachs from laughing so hard.

“Meat-head! Meat-head!” Jason chanted at Brenda as he pounded his fist on his lunch table.

Even the students who had been listening to Brenda’s story just a minute before were now howling.

“Meat-head! Meat-head!” they all joined in.

Alison was sitting next to Brenda. She tried to help Brenda clean up the mystery meat mess. By then the whole cafeteria was chanting, “Meat-head! Meat-head! Meat-head!”

Nancy thought Brenda looked as if she was about to cry. Nancy almost felt sorry for her.

Just then Ms. Rodriguez, a teacher on cafeteria duty, stepped forward. “Let’s go,” she said, taking both Julia and Brenda by the arm. “The assistant principal will want to see you.” She looked at Nancy. “You, too.”

Nancy had never had to go to Mrs. Oshida’s office before. Even though she hadn’t done anything wrong, Nancy was nervous.

She swallowed hard and followed Ms. Rodriguez down the long hall. The closer she got to the door of the office, the more Nancy wished the hallway was longer.

Ms. Rodriguez knocked on Mrs. Oshida’s door and led the girls inside.

“What have we here?” Mrs. Oshida asked, looking at Brenda. “A food fight?”

“She dumped her lunch all over my head—” Brenda began.

“She lied about me to the whole school—” Julia said at the same time.

“Wait a minute,” Mrs. Oshida said, holding up her hand. “One at a time.”

Ms. Rodriguez pointed to Nancy. “This girl saw the whole thing.”

Mrs. Oshida looked over the top of her reading glasses at Nancy. “Nancy Drew, you’re a very good student. You tell me what happened.”

Nancy took a deep breath and explained all about how Mari’s unicorn had disappeared. Then she told Mrs. Oshida about Brenda’s article and how angry it had made Julia.

“Because,” Nancy said, “Julia didn’t take Silvermane.”

“How can you say that?” Brenda pointed to a copy of the newspaper she had brought along. “I proved it!”

“Let me see that,” Mrs. Oshida said.

Brenda gave her the paper.

Nancy took her copy of the Carlton News out of her pocket and looked at it.

“I just figured out the real proof in this article,” Nancy said. “And it shows that Julia didn’t steal Silvermane.”

“What are you talking about?” Brenda asked.

“The unicorn in this picture is standing on the counter. Mari’s missing unicorn wouldn’t be able to do that. I found her Silvermane stand yesterday in our classroom. Mrs. Reynolds has it.”

Brenda covered her face with her hands.

“And you can call my mom,” Julia said. “She’ll tell you that unicorn is mine.”

Julia’s mother was the school soccer coach. Her office was next to the gym.

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