Did you guys ever have that walk of shame back to your desk looking down at your test in dismay in class after getting it back and it says "57% :( I KNOW you can do better, (insert your name here) your just not trying."
If you have, welcome to the club. I just got a test back today that was all like "57% :( I KNOW you can do better, Ericka. Your just not trying" Yes I am! Do you have any idea how hard that english test was?! Didn't think so. Considering that you chose to give it to us when you were supposed to give it to us the next day just because you were mad that the class was talking. I wasn't even talking. I was secretly reading "Life in LA" on my phone in the back of the classroom to see if it was updated. I should have used Google. A 100% was right in front of me. But of course I was too stupid to notice.
Yea, I know what your thinking."That's not any better" Well, in my defense, something was telling me to go look at the story, and I ended up reading it again. But at least was wasn't flapping my jaws like my friends and everyone else. At least I was reading. And reading is good, right ?
Why am I always sucking in English!? I thought my weakest subject was math?!
Anyway, I hope you like the chapter :)
...
"No. Lets try to solve this first" Candice said. "What if she figures out we knew something and didn't tell her? She'll be really mad. Maybe she will expell us" Tammy said. "No way" I whispered. "My parents would be so angry if I get kicked out for something like this" I said. "Plus, my parents spent a fortune on this school. We basicly pay her salery" Tammy said.
"Fine. We'll try for a couple days, then if we don't find out who it is, then we'll tell her" Abby said. We nodded.
"So did you guys find anything?" Candice asked. I shook my head. "Just some dirty socks" Tammy said.
We turned away and finished our work.
...
At night, me, Candice, Monica and Kelsiee snuck back in the school, to go to the resturant the school had on campus. "What if we get caught?" Monica whispered. "I don't know. But i'm not eating anything from the school" Monica whispered back.
For the next 5 minutes, we were tip-toeing around the bushes, and tip-toeing fast acroos open spaces until we reached the resturant. I counted the money I had on then, we heard something. "Whats that-" Candice started and gasped.
"Guys, get down!" She said, and we dove into the bushes below. We peaked out. "Whats wrong?" I asked her. "I think someone's following us" Candice said. "Huh?" Monica asked. "Not so loud?!" Candice whisper-shouted. "How?" Kelsiee asked.
"Intresting" Candice said. "What?" I asked. "If someone is following us, were going to find out who and why" Candice said. "Come on" She said, getting out of the bushes. "Wait!" I stopped her. "What if there dangouros?" I asked.
"Some how, I don't think so" Candice said, and walked out. We followed. We went in the resturant. I yanked the hoddie off of one of their heads. "Spencer!?" I asked, shocked. Then Candice did the same to another. "Austin?" She asked.
Monica copied. "Shawn?!" She asked. "No way. Why were you guys following us?" I asked. "Why are you all acting so supicous?" Spencer asked. "We just wanted some good food. Whats wrong with that?" Candcice asked.
"You raided my room, why?" Shawn asked. "Room inspection?" I asked. "You think I fell for that?" He asked. "I'm not a complete moron" He mumbled, turning away. "Maybe we should tell them" Kelsiee said. "No!" The rest of us said at the same time.
"Tell us what? "Austin said. We were quiet for a few seconds. "Alright. But we have to swear you to secrecy" Monica said. "That means you can't tell anyone" I said.
"No, really?" Shawn said sarcasticly. "At the same time around when all the students got sick, we found these notes" Candice said, and slid the notes across the table to her brother. Spencer read it, and passed it to Austin. He read it and passed it to Shawn.
"Really? Cool. But it's not me" Shawn said. "Well, we know that. Now" Candice said. "So what are we going to do?" Austin asked. "We are going to figure out whos doing this" I said, pointing to the girls. "And the rest of the girls in the squad" Candice said.
"You guys can help by not following us and letting us do our own thing" Monica said. "And by not saying anything about these notes. To anyone" Candice said. "Got it, Spencer?" Candice asked. "Yea, yea, whatever" He said.
"Promice?" I asked. "Yea" He said. "Okay. Lets eat" I said, and we sat down at the table with the boys.
...
"Do you think the boys will tell?" Taylor asked me, sitting on the floor watching "Chopped" on TV. "They better not" I said, lounging on the couch with a bag of Airheads, with half of it in my mouth. "If anyone finds out that somene is making everybody sick, the whole school will freak out" I said.
The next day, I was walking down the hall with Sasha, and Naomi was there with another note in our hand. "Hey, look guys. Someone is delibratly trying to poison our food" She said. "Let me see that" I said. Naomi handed it over.
"Hey, whats going on?" I heard Dylan ask. We turned to see him, Cole and Shawn. "We found another note" I asked. "What does it say?" He asked me. "It's saying someone is trying to poison our food" Naomi said.
"There trying to make everyone sick" I said. "Who would do something like that?" Dylan asked. "A real ass, thats who" Candice said.
"I bet it was one of Emily's pranks" Cole said. The bell rung. "Excuse me, please, I would like to see that note" Mrs. Livingston said, with Emily next to her. I gave it to her. "Do you really think someone's trying to poison us?" Sasha asked.
"I'm going to call my parents. I wanna go home" Naomi said. The principal sighed. "This is just somebody's idea of a little joke. We have a virus going around, and thats all. Now, off to class. And get rid of that" Mrs. Livingston said, and gave it to Naomi, and walked away with Emily.
Naomi tossed it over her shoulder, and walked away. So did I.
...
"This is the last time i'm helping you with the lab dishes" I said, walking down the hall with Taylor. "It's really gross, I know, i'm sorry, but I really need the extra credit. I'm worried about my last homework assignment. But i'll make it up to you. I promice" Taylor said, as we walked inside.
"Still working in it" We heard Mr. Resse say. We stopped in our tracks and listened. See, we Holliday sisters, me and Taylor, have a tendency to eavesdrop. Sometimes we don't even know were doing it.
"The students? Oh no, they don't suspect a thing" He said. "Why wouldnt they? About certain things they could be a little clueless about. Taylor lost her balence, and the door creaked. Mr. Resse jumped in his seat and looked at us.
"I'll call you back" He said quickly and put his cell phone away.
"Why were you listening to my conversation?" He asked. "We weren't we just came in here to clean lab dishes" Taylor said. "Did you hear anything I said?" He asked. I shook my head as me and Taylor walked to the sink.
We finished the dishes, and ran outside to my car, and drove to Candice's house. We ran into Candice's room, were she was sitting on her bed with Claire eating chocolate bars. "It's professor ploom. Just as we thought it was" I said as soon as I came in.
"He knows we know" Taylor said. "He said none of us knew, and in a few days, his mission will be accomplished" Taylor said, "What mission?" Candice asked. "I don't know. But yu shouldve seen the look on his face. It was evil" I said, and whispered the last part.
...
When we passed by the nurses office, there were people in there that were sick. And then a week later, there were even more people that were sick. Were were sitting at the school cafe, and Abby came rushing there and sat down. "10 students left Crystal this morning. Principal Livingston is freaking out!" She exclamed. "My mom wants to pull me and Spencer out, too" Candice said. "She can't do that! I won't let her!" Abby exclamed.
"How sweet" Candice said. "If you leave, I won't have anyone to pick on" I said. Candice took a cup of sauce and put it in front of my jacket thretning to pour it on my new jacket. "Take it back" She said. "Okay, okay!" I exclamed, bacing up.
"I still think it's Shawn" Taylor said. "It's not Shawn" We said in unison. "Okay, ok. It's not Shawn" Taylor said. "Whos next?" "Emily" We all said in unison.
...
So we were planning to sneak into Emily's room. Me, Monica, Claire, and Tammy were going to do it, again, everyone else, including the boys didn't want to take that risk. Plus the boys didn't want to search a girls room.
We walked in. "Wow. This is not what we excpected" I said, looking around. "You never really know a person until you break into their room" Claire said. The room was so clean and happy-looking.
"Except for Shawn" Tammy said. "Yea, that was excatly what we excpeted" I said.
"Lets do this" Monica said. We were looking in drawers, her closet, everywhere, even under her pillows. We heard a door open, and Emily came in. "This is my room. Your looking in my room. No way. You think it's me?" Emily said, and ran to her bed.
"I can't belive it. You acually think id do something like that?" She asked. "Raise your right hand" Claire said. Emily did as she was told. "Do you solemly promice that you are tottaly inocent?" Claire asked. We all looked at her. "Okay. Lets rephrase that. do you solemly swear that you didn't write that note? "Claire asked.
"I promice" Emily said. "I belive her" I said. "You do?" She asked me. "for one thing, I don't think your smart enough to pull off something like this" I said. Her mouth dropped.
...
At my house, we were sitting down on the floor in my room, and took the notes out. "Some of these notes rhyme, and some don't" Candice said. She took one up, and the piture of the one on her phone. "Oh my gosh. I know who it is" She said.
...
We snuck into Naomi's room, since she was in a dorm for now, and found the box under the bed. "It's locked" I said. "Here" Candice said, and gave me a hairpin. We tried it, and it opened. Inside, there was a whole bunch of ibakak inside. "We have our proof" Candice said.
"Lets tell the principal" I said. "Not just yet" Candice said. She put them back.
...
At soccor practice we sitting in a circle. We went to take a shower, and insted, we follwerd Naomi into the gym and saw her putting ibakak in the water. "That little rat!" I said, watching her run away."Let the rat have her cheese, for now" Monica said.
"Lets dump those out" I said walking over. "And leave a surpirse in one of them" Candice said.
We got new water and the coach and everyone else was sitting in the gym. After the coach annoced who was the goalie and stuff, I asked if I could pass out the water cups. "Sure. Hydrate, hydrate, right?" The coach said.
"Hydrate, hydrate" Emily said. I got up to pass the water cups out, and when I got to Naomi and there was only 1 cup left- the contaminated cup. "I'm okay, thanks" She told me. "Think you should. Rules, you know. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate" I said.
"No, really, I just had a drink before I took my shower. Thanks though" Naomi said. I stood up. "Coach. Naomi won't drink the water. And you know how important hydration is. It's a rule, you know" I told the coach.
"Naomi. I am very surpiised. Take a cup immedatly" The coach said. I took it from the tray and handed it to her. "Enjoy" I said. She glared at me and took it. "I'm really not thirsty" She said.
"Drink it, Naomi" The coach told her. After she drunk it, she raised her hand. "Coach, I don't feel so good" "We'll be done in a minute" The coach said. "No, I can't wait" She said.
"What's wrong, Naomi? Stomach hurt?" Kelsiee asked in a sing song voice. "May I be excused, please?" Naomi asked the coach. "Naomi-" The coach started. "Coach, Naomi really is sick. Can we take her to the nurse?" Kelsiee asked.
"I can take her. She's my best friend" Naomi's puppy, Jen said, getting up. Me, Taylor, and Kelsiee got up and followed. Naomi ran in the locker room and threw up in a trash can. "Are you okay, Naomi?" Jen asked her.
"She will be, in time" Taylor said. "You guys put something in that water" Naomi accused. "Is that so?" I asked. "I bet your wondering why we didn't get sick this time" I added. Jen looked at her. "I don't know what your talking about" Naomi said.
"Don't play dumb. Your the one that's been making everybody sick" Kelsiee said. "She is not" Jen snapped. "Yes she is" Taylor said. "Tell her, Naomi. Tell her how you made everyone sick" I egged her on.
"Naomi. What are they talking about?" Jen asked her. "I have no idea" Naomi said, avoiding our gaze. "I would listen if I were you, Jen. Let me tell you how she made everyone sick. Even you, her best friend" I said.
"Don't listen to them Jen" Naomi said. We heard footsteps behind us. We turned to see Principal Livingston behind us with Emily and Candice.
"I'm going to need an explanation. I had to leave a very important staff meeting for this. Candice said she knows how everyone got sick" She said.
"It was Naomi" Taylor said. "It was not me" Naomi said. "Why would she do that? Besides she got sick twice herself. Explain that if you can" Jen snapped.
"She was faking?" I asked sarcasticly. "Making accusations like that is very serious. I hope you girls have some proof" The principal said. "Me too" Emily said. "We do" Taylor said.
"I'm listening" The principal said. "The other day when I was collecting lab notes, Naomi's writting was so perfect. She puts this little swigly line on her letter a's. We were looking at the notes in our room, and Candice saw that swigle" Taylor explained.
"Prove it. Anyone can copy my swigle" Naomi said. "Not me" Jen said. "True" Naomi said. "Okay. Your going to need some more proof then that. I mean she's right. Anyone can copy her handwritting. Except Jen" The principal said.
"What about this for starters. Stacy said that whoever's doing this is getting something from it" Kelsiee said. "So I rembered something" I said. "I was at the vending machine with Dylan because we wern't going to eat in the cafeteria, and I heard Naomi oon the phone" I said.
"So, we figured out that the only person that would gain anything from this is a person who owned the vending machines. And I did some checking online and all the machines in the school are owned by Naomi's dad. And everybody was eating out of the vending machines because they thought the food in the cafeteria was making everyone sick" Taylor said.
"So your family was making money by everyone getting sick" Candice said. "So she had a motive. But how did she make everyone sick?" The principal asked.
"Heres how" Candice said. "I heard Naomi telling Jen that her brother got sick because he ate bad berrys of a bush and gave him ibakak to make him throw up" Candice said.
After she was done, she looked at Naomi, who was sick as a dog. "You look really bad" I told her. "I know" She said. "You put ibakak in everyone's water, to make them think that the food in the cafeteria was making them sick" Taylor said.
"And you dad would be making money off of the vending machines, and you would get to go to modeling school" Kelsiee finished. "How did you know that?" Naomi asked. "I heard you talking about it in chemistry" I said.
"Okay, so even if you guys are right, which your not, how did I even get this ibakak from?" Naomi asked. "We found this in Naomi's room" Taylor said, handing the prinipal the bottle of ibakak. "Well we checked with Nurse Betty, and she's missing a couple bo'ttles of ibakak" Candice said.
"Busted!" Emily excaimed. "Okay, this is terrible" The prinipal said. "Makes you wanna hurl" I said. "Okay, you girls can all go now, I will deal with Naomi. I won't belive she did it. No matter how much proof there is" Jen said.
We all looked at the principal. "Thanks Jen, your the best" Naomi said, and just then, she threw up in her shoes. I would take a picture of Jen's face right then.
...
"I can't belive you acually solved that" Cole said. We told them what happened. We were just walking around our community. "I knew she could do it. That's my cute little smart CeCe" Dylan said, putting his arm around me and kissed my forehead. I laughed.
"Ahem!" Taylor said. "We did, too!" Candice said. "Fine, but I'm not kissing you" Dylan said with a playful smirk. We all laughed. "What happened to her, anyway?" Spencer asked. "Naomi got lunch duty" Monica said.
"I can't belive because of her, the whole city would have thought I was pregnant again. The second time I got sick, I was going to buy a pregancy test" I said. "You thought you were pregnant? Dude, if mom saw that test, she would be so angry!" Taylor said laughing.
"And let's not forget about the school spies!" Abby exclaimed. "I know!" I said laughing.
...
Can you freaking not ?
My stupid brother just flicked me on the side of the head. It hurts. And then he called me a "Sprouse obsessed werido" whatever that is. He's just jelly cuz he ain't a Sprouser like I am!
Lol 'D
So the crisis is finally over! Vote and comment! Tell me who you though did it the first time or whatever. Please! It would mean so much to me! :)
Thanks! :)