NANCY

I turned the corner, jumped over a wooden crate and hit the floor behind it. I heard a feet charge by then silence. I waited a few more minutes then peeked over the edge of the crate I was hiding behind. I hurdled the crate again then ran in the opposite direction that the feet were heading. Mobsters had the tendency to get nasty when you got close to their secrets and I was carrying a whole notebook full of their dirty little secrets that I had to get to the Chief. The footsteps were back and not far behind me, I turned a corner and saw that I had reached a dead end. There was a window and beyond that I could see a low rooftop. I grit my teeth as I ran and launched myself out the window, there were screams from below me as I soared over the road and to the rooftop. I hit it with a thud that knocked the wind out of me. As I glanced behind me I saw some of the men getting ready to follow after me and onto the roof so I climbed back to my feet and ran to the far side of the roof then down the fire escape. Thankfully the police had gotten my text and were waiting for me around the building. I sprinted around the corner to where I knew that the Chief was going to be waiting for me. I crashed into him then handed him the notebook and slipped into the crowd. After the mobsters were arrested the Chief turned toward me.

"Thanks again for all the help Nancy."

"Anytime Chief, but I have to get going, call me if there's anything I need to know."

"Will do Nancy, tell your father I say hello." I turned and walked over to my dodge charger and climbed in. When I arrived home my dad Carson greeted me in the kitchen. "Hi Nancy, Ned called he is going to be here in a half hour."

"Why didn't he call my cell?"

"He knew that you were going after the notebook today and didn't want to endanger you."

"Oh, good thinking on his part. I'm going to go get ready, the Chief might be calling, if you could answer my phone for me that would be wonderful."

"No problem."

I got into the shower and proceeded to get ready for my date with Ned. After I pulled on a black tank top and my favorite jean skirt. I slid my feet into a pair of black flip flops just as my phone began to ring. I ran downstairs and scooped my phone off of the table.

"Hello?"

"Hi Nancy, it's Ned. I'll be at your house in a couple minutes, we are running late to our reservations so if you could meet me outside that'd be awesome."

"Not a problem thanks for letting me know, see you in a bit."

"See you soon Nancy." I hung up my phone and called out to my dad, "Bye dad I'll see you later tonight."

"Bye! Have fun."

"I will." I went outside to wait for Ned in the driveway, just as he pulled up in his dad's convertible.

"Hop in!"

After I climbed into the car I leaned over and gave Ned a quick kiss. "Hi Ned."

"Hi hun, ready for dinner?"

"Yes! I have quite the story to tell you!"

"I'm sure you do!" When we reached the restaurant the hostess led us to a table in the back corner. As we sat down my phone rang again, I glanced at my caller ID and saw that it said, "Chief".

"Sorry Ned it's the Chief I have to take this."

"It's alright, you just solved that case and he may have questions."

"Thanks Ned," I slipped out the front door and answered my phone, "Hello?"
"Hi Nancy this is Chief McGinnis. Did you know that the men were counterfeiting money?"

"I didn't know that! How did you find that out?"

"We found counterfeit money on them, they aren't the ones making it though. They're just distributing. Any ideas who could be behind this?"

"Not as of right now. I'll look into it but Ned is waiting to order because of me so I should get going. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. In the meantime did you have someone look at that notebook?"

"Yea, it's in some sort of code and in another language. Maybe you could take another look at it tomorrow?"

"For sure, try calling Dr. Hathaway down at Penn State."

"Sounds good, thanks Nancy."

"Bye Chief." I hung up then and went back to the table where Ned was waiting. "Sorry about that hun. It was Chief McGinnis, the people that I helped catch were working with some other people counterfeiting money."

"Wow, you sound like you've had quite the adventure. But then again don't you always?"

"That's true. What did you order for me?"

"Diet Coke of course."

"You know me so well." We passed the rest of the dinner with me filling Ned in on what had happened that day. He told me about visiting The University of New York they had been scouting him to play football there next year but he wasn't sure if that was where he wanted to go. I was going to be going to Harvard next year and studying law like my dad.

After dinner Ned and I went to a movie and then to the park. We hadn't seen each other in quite a while, and I had a feeling that since this mystery wasn't over yet we wouldn't be seeing much of each other until it was.