The Thanksgiving Surprise by Carolyn Keene

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

5

Boy Trouble

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” Derrick cried, doubling over with laughter. He had to hold his stomach, he was laughing so hard.

“You creep!” Nancy yelled. She set the milk carton back down. But it was too late. The milk had spilled all over her robe. Even her nightgown had milk on it.

“What’s going on?” Hannah asked. She turned around from the stove to see what was happening.

Derrick was laughing too hard to answer. Nancy glared at him, then looked over at Pamela.

Pamela had a worried expression on her face. She looked as if she knew her brother had done something wrong—and she didn’t think it was funny.

“I have milk all over me,” Nancy told Hannah. “There were holes in the milk carton and it spilled.”

“Oh, my goodness,” Hannah said, grabbing a wet cloth. She started wiping up the spilt milk from the table and the floor. But there was nothing she could do for Nancy’s bathrobe.

“Derrick, you little twit,” Pamela said. “That wasn’t funny when you did it at home, and it’s not funny now. I’m going to tell Mummy. You’ll be sorry!”

“Oh, now, Pamela,” Hannah said. “Don’t blame your brother. I don’t think it was his fault.”

“Yes, it was,” Pamela said. “Look—he poked tiny holes in the carton, near the top. That way the milk spills out all over the place when you pour it. I’m telling you he’s done this before.”

She’s trying to apologize for her brother, Nancy thought. She’s actually trying to be nice.

Nancy looked over at Pamela and smiled.

But Pamela didn’t smile back. She just got up and walked out of the room.

Fine, Nancy thought. Be that way.

“I’m going upstairs to change,” Nancy told Hannah as she got up from the table.

By the time Nancy got back to the kitchen, Derrick’s mother was there. Pamela had gone to get her.

“Derrick, I’m very angry with you,” Mrs. Morgan said. “These pranks have got to stop!”

“Sorry, Mum,” Derrick said. But he still had a small grin on his face.

“We are guests here,” Mrs. Morgan went on. “Please act like it and help clean up this mess right away. Then you can spend the rest of the morning in your room—thinking about how other people feel when you play these little jokes of yours.”

Derrick bent his head down, hiding his eyes. But Nancy didn’t think he looked very sorry.

Well, Nancy thought, at least Pamela told her mother about it. Maybe she isn’t so bad after all. Maybe she didn’t steal Hannah’s ring.

But who did? That was what Nancy wanted to know.

There were still five people on her list of suspects.

And three of them aren’t even here right now, Nancy thought.

“Hannah?” Nancy asked when breakfast was over. “May I walk over to the D’Angelos’ house?”

“I guess so. But what for?” Hannah asked.

“I want to talk to Shelley and Greg. To see if they know anything about your ring,” Nancy said.

“Nancy Drew, the detective,” Hannah said with a smile. But then she looked down at her finger, where the ring should have been. She stopped smiling.

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