Girl Squad by Kim Hoover

Author:Kim Hoover [Hoover, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642470444
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Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2019-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Rachel, Jane, and I stood staring at each other, helpless, mute, while Grandma looked on from the porch.

“Why don’t you girls get back inside. I’ll make us an apple pie and some homemade ice cream. Let the Rangers do their job and I’m sure this will all be okay in the end.”

Dejected, having no idea what to do next, I signaled to the other two that we might as well go inside. Grandma went to work in the kitchen, and realizing how crushed we were, didn’t even make us help. We went up to the room Jane and I shared so we could talk in private.

“This is the worst,” I said. “We’re totally cut out.”

“I guess we should have known she wasn’t going to let us in on their investigation. It was really dumb to think she could,” Jane said.

“There’s nothing stopping us from going to Ft. Worth on our own,” Rachel said, her eyes wide, as though she’d come up with a brilliant idea.

“Nothing?” I said. “Nothing except Grandma, the Texas Rangers, our parents, the school. Other than that, it’s easy peasy.”

“Wait a minute,” Jane said as Rachel looked glumly at the floor. “Your grandmother and the Rangers aren’t going to expect us to keep going on this. And the school, well, it’s still closed for now since there’s no water or electricity. So it looks like we won’t be back in there for at least a week.”

“But what about my dad? Your parents? Rachel’s?”

“Here’s the idea. We have to make your grandmother believe we’re going back home, and at the same time, we make our parents believe we’re hanging out here until the school reopens,” Jane said.

“I don’t know. I guess it could work. But what are we going to do in Ft. Worth?” I just couldn’t shake my negative thoughts. I was so down in the dumps about what Bev had done. I had really believed she would help us and I felt like a fool for that now.

“First things first. Let’s all call our folks and let them know we’re going to hang out in Sweetwater for the week. They’re not gonna care. My dad hates to spend money on long distance calls, so he won’t call to check up on us in the meantime,” Rachel said.

“We’ll tell your grandmother we’re headed back home in the morning. We can make a big deal out of how defeated we are and all that, so she won’t suspect that we would do anything else,” Jane said.

“You two sure are confident,” I said, standing and pacing the room. “But this feels like a wild goose chase to me.”

“Maybe,” Jane said. “But one thing leads to another. Look how far we’ve gotten already?”

“I’m starting to feel like a Texas Ranger myself,” Rachel said, jumping up on a side table and holding her arms up like she was aiming a gun.

I threw a pillow at her and she fell backward off the table, hitting her head against the wall.

“Ouch!”

“I’m sorry,” I said, running to help her up.

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