Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House by Michael Poore

Author:Michael Poore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

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A MINUTE LATER, THE store manager—a tall, thin, slightly greasy-looking man with a name tag that said SCOTT—was carrying a twenty-four-roll package of toilet paper past the cash registers when a young girl with glasses and long, messy hair came blasting down the frozen pizza aisle and jumped up and down in front of him.

“There’s a RAT!” she shrieked. “Oh my God, a big, huge RAT stuck in the freezer thingy back there! A RAT with RED EYES and—”

Scott went into full panic mode. His eyes popped, and he made desperate shushing motions at the girl. Then he sprinted down the pizza aisle, loudly whispering, “Where? Show me! Where?”

The girl trotted after him, saying, “Over there! Over there, I think! I think it was a rat. It might have been a possum. OMG! Possums are even worse! Yes, I’m SURE it was a possum!”

Customers followed Scott with their eyes, looking disgusted. No one noticed another girl, with curious eyes and bulging pockets, walking out the front door as casual as could be.

Scott came to a stop in front of the freezers, looking this way and that.

“I don’t see it!” he said. “Point out where it was! Point…”

The girl with the wild hair was gone, probably frightened out of her mind.

Wouldn’t you be, if you had seen a possum among the pizzas? I sure would.

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