Lost and Found by Mark Elliott & Mark Elliott

Author:Mark Elliott & Mark Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

CHAPTER 14

NOT SO SECRET

By lunchtime on Monday, Melissa was having trouble. And the trouble was this secret she knew. Because Jay wasn’t Jay at all, not today. He was Jay’s twin brother, Ray. And actually, Ray was the boy she’d started to get a crush on way back on Thursday. Because that day, Jay had really been Ray. So there wasn’t just one cute new boy at Taft Elementary, there were two, and they were exactly alike. And to be the only other person in the whole school who knew about this? It was like no secret Melissa had ever known before. And she was dying to tell someone. Anyone.

Except . . . she had promised Ray she would keep the secret. And she really wanted to. She did. Really.

But for Melissa, this secret was like that twenty-dollar bill her aunt had given her for her birthday. She knew she should have taken that money and tucked it away somewhere safe, like the bank. But instead, she took it somewhere else. Like, to the mall.

And today, right now? The school cafeteria was like the mall. It was the perfect place to spend a secret. So Melissa began shopping for a pair of ears. Ears that belonged to someone she could trust. Someone who wasn’t a blabbermouth. As she dropped off her tray after eating, Melissa looked around, and then waved to her friend Caroline and motioned that she should come over—quick.

And standing against the wall under the food-groups poster, the two girls shared forty-five seconds of furious whispering and nodding. And when it was over, Caroline’s mouth was hanging wide open. Because she was in on the secret. She knew that Jay had an identical twin brother named Ray who was coming to school every other day, and that these two adorably cute brothers had all the teachers duped into thinking they were the same kid. And of course, the last thing Melissa said was, “You have to promise me that you won’t tell anybody, okay? Like, nobody. Promise?”

And Caroline promised to keep the secret.

Outside on the playground five minutes later, Caroline saw Ray and Melissa talking next to the foursquare courts, saw them nodding and smiling at each other—and it seemed so romantic. Almost dangerous. Because that boy was sort of like a spy. Or a secret agent. And suddenly Caroline wished she could tell her best friend Brianna about this. And that’s when Caroline decided that even though she had promised Melissa to keep the Ray and Jay thing secret, that didn’t mean she couldn’t tell Brianna. Because Caroline knew she could trust Brianna. So on the way back to their lockers after recess, Brianna heard the whole story.

“He has a twin?” Brianna gasped. “That new kid? In my math class? And the twin told Melissa? Because he likes her? That’s so sweet, don’t you think? And don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone. Really. I promise.”

And Brianna didn’t tell a single soul for a whole seven minutes. And

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