Maggie Malone Makes a Splash by Jenna McCarthy

Author:Jenna McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2015-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

When I Realize the Timer Might Be Ticking

My head is swimming—pun intended—when I get down to Marina’s stateroom. Buried treasure? That somebody DIED trying to find? And stick with the plan? WHAT plan? If ever there was a genuine, full-blown, I-need-a-genie crisis, this would be it.

“Frank!” I whisper into the tiny mirror on the back of Marina’s stateroom door. “Earth to Frank! More specifically, big, huge ocean to Frank! Frank the Genie, please come in! This is a maritime EMERGENCY! S.O.S!”

“Well, if it isn’t Maggie-Marina-Tide-Malone,” Frank says, his face coming into focus in the mirror. “You sound like a girl who just found a family of ants camping out in her pajamas! Or should I say a cluster of sea slugs in her wet suit?” Frank says this with a belly laugh, but I am not in the mood.

“Frank, something crazy is happening,” I tell him, ignoring his joke—and the fact that he’s wearing what looks like a bullfighting costume.

“Crazier than diving into somebody else’s life midstream, you mean?” Frank laughs again, neatly adjusting a fringy gold tassel on his shoulder. Of all of the genies in the world, I had to get one who thinks he’s the star of his own one-man comedy show.

“Like, major big-time crazy,” I tell him. “I think Lexi and Captain Jack are planning something…something bad.”

“Maggie, remember what I told you about Brianna, because it applies in this life too,” Frank says with a sigh. “You can’t control what other people are going to do. Worry about your own self.”

“I am worrying about my own self, Frank,” I say nervously. “I’m worried that these other people are planning to do something really scary and dangerous that’s going to kaboom my own self!” My heart is pounding inside my chest.

“Well, if that’s true, then I guess you have to ask yourself what Maggie Malone would do. I think Maggie Malone would find someone she could trust and tell them about this majorly scary business you speak of,” Franks says, distracted, leaning back and forth in a cloud of smoke.

“I mean, I think I heard them say… But what if I’m wrong? They seem so nice… I don’t know,” I explain, confused and hoping for a good genie answer.

“Look, Mags, I’d love to chat more but they’re about to release the bulls,” Frank shouts. “Go with your gut! Do some digging. Ask some questions. Remember, you’ve got this! And let’s hope I’ve got this too, or you may be in the market for a new genie!” I watch in frustration as Frank’s face bounces up and down and fades away.

I can’t control what other people are going to do? No kidding! Worry about my own self? Yeah, that’s not hard to do right now. This is not exactly a first-rate genie revelation. He wasn’t even listening to me! Why, oh why, oh why did I pick this life? And why don’t MMBs come with some sort of warning? You know, like Be careful what you wish

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