The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher by Marty Chan

Author:Marty Chan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV028000, book
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Published: 2014-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

Getting into Mr. E’s house was impossible because when we were out of school, so was our teacher. Somehow, I had to get out of school and keep him in school. To do that, I needed help.

The next morning, I told Trina and Remi about my run-in with Mr. E and my plan to get into his house to look for her bike. They didn’t believe me at first, but when I showed them the stolen video game and the hairpin lock pick, they changed their tune.

“I’ll help you look,” Remi offered.

“Thanks. We need someone to keep Mr. E at school.” I looked at Trina.

“No way,” she said. “Why me?”

He explained, “He’s not my teacher, so I can’t make him stay.”

“Marty can do it.”

He started to waffle. “Maybe Trina’s right. She can run faster than both of us. Plus, she knows what her bike looks like.”

“No,” I said. I didn’t want to deal with another paradox, wondering if they were holding hands or not in Mr. E’s yard. I wanted the old detective duo back together again. Frank and Joe Hardy. Batman and Robin. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.

She crossed her arms. “Well, I’m not going to help unless I get to go.”

She could be so stubborn. “Okay, you can go, but if the police catch you, I hope you have a good story,” I said.

“The police . . . ” Trina bit her lower lip.

Remi shot me a dirty look. I’d just figured out how to solve a paradox. Don’t put the cat in the box and don’t let Trina and Remi go alone.

“I’m sure the cops won’t come.”

“Remi’s probably right. You should be mostly safe.” I sensed she didn’t want to get in trouble.

She fidgeted from one foot to the other. Remi smacked me on the back of the head. I refused to back off. I was going to try to keep my promise to help him impress Trina, but I wasn’t going to lose my best friend doing it.

“Do you still want to go?” he asked.

She shook her head. “I’ll be the school decoy.”

Remi glared at me. He’d have to find another way to score points with Trina.

I shrugged. “It’s what she wants.”

At the end of the school day, I glanced up at the clock. Almost time for dismissal. Time to put the plan into action. I tapped Trina’s back with the eraser end of my pencil but she didn’t budge.

I scribbled a note — “Do it.” — and passed it to her.

She passed the note back to me. She had scribbled on the back; “I don’t want to get in trouble.”

I crossed out her message and wrote over it: “If I do it, he’ll know something’s up.”

I tossed the note over her shoulder, but it fell into her open backpack on the floor. Trina reached into her backpack for the note. She pulled out two notes. She read both and sat still for what seemed like forever.

She spun around in her desk and held up the love note that I had written to help Remi win her heart.

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