The Make-Believe Mystery by Carolyn Keene

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

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Starting from Scratch

I don’t know,” Nancy said doubtfully. “There’s no way the boys could get away with stealing our story. I mean, if they read our story on Friday and pretend it’s theirs, we’d tell Mrs. Reynolds.”

“How could we prove it was our story, though?” George pointed out. “It would be the boys’ word against ours.”

“That’s true,” Nancy admitted.

“I know!” Bess said, bouncing up and down. “Why don’t we get one of the boys to tell us what their story’s about?”

“Oh, yeah, right,” Phoebe said, rolling her eyes.

“No, no, I mean it. I think I have a way.” Bess grinned and started walking toward the lunchroom. “Come on, guys. Just let me do all the talking, okay?”

• • •

The girls stood in line and got their lunch trays. Today lunch was chicken nuggets, peas, and fruit cocktail.

George glanced around. “Hey, where’s Phoebe?”

“She had to go to the bathroom,” Bess said. She scoped out the lunchroom. “Great, there’s Peter and Kyle! Come on, follow me.”

Bess made a beeline for the boys’ table. Nancy and George trailed after her. They found Peter and Kyle making sculptures out of the chicken nuggets and peas.

“Doomsday Tower!” Peter said loudly. He made a tall stack of chicken nuggets on his plate.

“Beware, for the evil warrior comes to attack the tower!” Kyle replied. He tossed peas at the stack of chicken nuggets. Then he caught sight of Bess, Nancy, and George and began throwing peas at them, instead. “Intruder alert! Intruder alert!”

“Stop that!” Bess exclaimed.

Kyle laughed, but he stopped the pea attack.

“What do you want?” Peter asked them, munching on a chicken nugget.

Nancy started to open her mouth, then clamped it shut. She remembered what Bess had said about wanting to do all the talking.

Bess smoothed her hair behind her ears and smiled her best fake-friendly smile. “We just wanted to tell you that your team’s story idea sounds really, really cool. I bet you’ll definitely win first place.”

Peter and Kyle stared at each other. “Huh?” Peter said after a moment. “How did you hear about our story?”

“Yeah, how?” Kyle echoed. He looked pretty suspicious.

“Oh, you know,” Bess said vaguely. “Stuff gets around. Anyway, I really wish we’d thought about doing a story about, um, killer bees attacking our school.”

Kyle made a face. “Killer bees? No way! Our story’s about a mad scientist and a—”

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