The Case of the Digital Deception by Ellie O'Ryan

Author:Ellie O'Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Chapter 10

Club CSI met for breakfast the next morning at the school cafeteria to go over some new developments.

“So I tried to get in touch with Zazzam last night,” Ben began.

“Za-what?” Corey asked.

“Zazzam,” repeated Ben. “That’s the company that owns You Can Draw It! So I tried to get in touch with them. Believe me, it’s not easy. It’s like they don’t want people contacting them.”

“Maybe they get a lot of complaints that their games are too hard,” Corey suggested. “Or that the expansion packs cost too much.”

“Maybe,” Ben said. “I had to do a lot of digging, but I finally found an e-mail address, so I sent an e-mail asking if they could give me more information about some You Can Draw It! players. There was a response in my in-box this morning.”

“And?” Corey asked hopefully.

“And nothing,” Ben replied. He shook his head. “They wouldn’t give me anything, not even the e-mail addresses those players used when they signed up. They said it was confidential information, and it’s part of the user agreement that they wouldn’t release it.”

“It stinks that they wouldn’t even give you the e-mail addresses,” Hannah said.

“Yeah,” Ben said. “I guess that’s a dead end.”

“Well, I e-mailed Maya last night,” Corey said. “She agreed to meet us before homeroom, so she should be here any second.”

“Oh good,” Hannah said. “Do you know what you’re going to say during the interview?”

“I have it all planned out,” Corey said. “I’m going for the kind, gentle Corey. Poor Maya’s been through enough—losing her best friends, having her heart broken, becoming a total pariah . . . ”

Hannah frowned. “Well, it wasn’t quite that dramatic—”

“I’m just saying, she could probably use a little friendship right now,” Corey continued. “And then maybe she’ll tell her new friends about what she did. The weight of a guilty conscience is a heavy burden to bear.”

“Oh yeah?” Hannah asked. “Then where is she? The bell is gonna ring in less than five minutes.”

A flicker of doubt crossed Corey’s face. “I don’t know,” he admitted. “She said she’d be here.”

Club CSI waited in the cafeteria until the second bell, just in case Maya was late. Then they had to run to make it to homeroom before being marked late themselves. And by that time, it was very clear that Maya had stood them up.

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