Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? by Belle Payton

Author:Belle Payton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER

SEVEN

Alex spent the afternoon thinking about Rosa’s bracelet.

Her head was starting to pound. She had no idea where it was.

In English class, she waited until Charlotte walked to the front of the room to get their discussion questions. Then she closed her eyes and tried again.

Rosa’s bracelet. Rosa’s bracelet.

She smelled freshly baked cookies. Was that a clue? Maybe the bracelet was in the cafeteria kitchen! Maybe Rosa had accidentally left it on her tray when she turned it in. But do they actually bake the cookies in the cafeteria? Alex wondered.

“Alex? Are you asleep?” Charlotte whispered.

Alex blinked. “No, just thinking.” Then she noticed the plate with two cookies that Charlotte was holding. “What’s that?”

“Ms. Palmer brought in cookies today and said we could each have one.” Charlotte passed Alex a cookie and the paper with their discussion questions.

Alex inhaled the buttery scent of the treats. Great. She was no closer to finding Rosa’s bracelet. “Okay, let’s do this.” She started looking over the questions, but she really didn’t feel like talking about Animal Farm right now, and she could tell Charlotte didn’t either.

“I had to take another placement test during lunch. That was not fun,” Charlotte said. “You and Ava are still coming over today?”

“Definitely,” Alex said. “Ava has football practice and I have to help the cheerleaders, but we can come over after.”

Charlotte raised her eyebrows. “I didn’t think you were one of them.”

“Them?” Alex thumbed through the book when she noticed Ms. Palmer watching them.

“The cheerleaders,” Charlotte said.

“I’m not. I wanted to be, but I’m way too uncoordinated. You should see the crazy-hard flips they do. So I help them with fund-raising and advertising,” Alex explained.

Charlotte raised her eyebrows but didn’t say anything. “So after that, we’ll hang out? I live right nearby. I can meet you at the front of the school.”

Alex took a bite of cookie and chewed thoughtfully. She also wanted to grab Ava and try calling up the whereabouts of the bracelet again, and she thought it made sense to do that on school grounds, where the bracelet was lost. But if she intercepted Ava as she came out of the locker room, they could try before meeting Charlotte.

“We’re good, right?” Charlotte sounded nervous.

“All good,” Alex assured her, glancing up at the clock. As soon as classes were over, she planned to hurry to the library. She wanted to check Madame Sibyl’s site. Maybe they weren’t doing it right. Maybe they shouldn’t hold hands. Or maybe they needed to be in a dark room. She needed more information.

But the library doors were locked after school when she pulled on them. A handwritten sign on notebook paper said LIBRARY CLOSED FOR STAFF MEETING.

Alex wished she could pick up wireless Internet and search on her phone, but the school constantly changed the passwords so kids couldn’t log on to the network.

She headed toward the gym. The cheerleaders’ voices rang out as she opened the door: “One, three, five, nine, who do we think is mighty fine?”

“Did you find it? Say yes!” Rosa ran over to Alex before she’d stepped fully inside.

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