The Chocolate Spy by Shannon L. Brown

Author:Shannon L. Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: middle grade mystery, childrens mystery, children's mystery, childrens mystery books ages 9-12, tween books, good books for kids 10-12 girls, middle grade fiction, middle grade, mysteries for kids, books for kids
Publisher: Shannon L. Brown
Published: 2017-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

The Second Suspect

LATER THAT MORNING, Jessica looked up from the chocolate-making demonstration and saw a woman walk by. She seemed nervous, so Jessica asked Sophie, “Who’s that?”

“Kelsey Newman,” Sophie replied. “She grew up in Pine Hill, went away to college, and came home to take over her parents’ flower shop, Buds & Blooms.”

Jessica watched as the woman went down the hall and around the corner. It seemed odd that the owner of a flower shop would be in a chocolate factory, but it was a small town. Maybe she had a friend or someone in her family who worked here. But the way Kelsey had glanced over her shoulder as she walked, almost as if she wanted to see if anyone was watching her, made Jessica wonder if something was wrong.

Sophie must have thought the same thing because she whispered in Jessica’s ear, “I’m going to follow her.”

“I’m coming with you.”

To not interrupt their class, Jessica whispered to Emily that they were going to the restroom. She could let Uncle Sal know if he asked. Then they walked away, heading down the hall in the direction Kelsey had gone. When they went around the corner, they found a hallway with closed doors. Continuing down the hallway, she heard raised voices through a closed door, so she and Sophie stopped.

A man’s voice said, “Please help,” then some other words she couldn’t clearly hear.

A woman’s voice said, “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you ten times, a hundred times, Kirk, you’ve gotten yourself mixed up in something serious. Get out.”

Sophie whispered, “I’m pretty sure that voice belongs to Kelsey. She has a younger brother named Kirk.”

Kirk said several words that were too quiet for Jessica to understand. Then there were scraping sounds, like a chair sliding across the floor.

Sophie hurried down the hall with Jessica behind her. As Sophie pushed on the door to the women’s restroom, the office door opened and Kelsey stepped out. The girls quickly darted into the restroom.

Inside the empty room, Jessica asked, “What do you think that was about?”

“It didn’t sound good for Kirk.”

A couple of minutes later, they went back in class. While they’d been gone, the class had moved back to the enrober to make more chocolate-covered marshmallows. The good news was that it was milk chocolate again, so Sophie stood at the end and waited for the finished marshmallows to come out of the cooling section, eating one she was given with a smile on her face. Jessica might make a chocolate lover out of her yet.

They helped stack all of the new chocolates onto two trays. Uncle Sal gave Jessica one tray and old Mr. Pleckenpoll the other one. It seemed wise to break them up so one person couldn’t trip and spill them all on the way to the chocolate storage room, but the old man had so much trouble walking that it appeared like he might fling his half of them on the floor any second. What happened the other day must have been a moment when he felt young.

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