Thanks for the nice reviews!
I just got the All-American Rejects CD at Newbury Comics, with a month of babysitting money. It was totally worth it!
Well...here we go...
Chapter Four
It was Saturday. They were all at the Baudelaires' house. Sunny was spread out on the couch, writing a book report for school.
The Mystery of the Tolling Ball, the 23rd Nancy Drew book by Carolyn Keene is a really fascinating book. I enjoyed it a whole lot.
Nancy Drew is a girl who is just a teenager but she solves a lot of mysteries. She is very smart, and she looks for clues to solve the mysteries.
Sunny put down her pencil. It was no use. The report was stupid!
"What's up?" came a voice from behind her. The fluttering told her who it was.
She groaned. "Just my stupid homework."
"Oh." Quigley sat down next to her and she self-consciously pulled her stuff towards her. "Are you bored?"
She rolled her eyes, at the homework, not at him. "Am I?"
He smiled. "Okay. Do you want to go to the library? Isadora and Klaus are going."
Sunny shrugged. "Okay. Just let me get the books I need to return."
She rushed upstairs, to get the books in her room. But something stopped her as she passed the door to Violet's room. Violet's door was open a crack. She probably wanted to come, too.
Sunny peered through the crack, quietly, hoping to surprise her sister.
Sunny ended up being the surprised one.
Violet and Duncan were both sitting on the bed, with their backs to the door.
Quite preoccupied with one another.
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"Are you okay?" asked Klaus. "You're kind of quiet." They were driving home from the library.
"I'm fine!" she said quickly. "Happy! Yeah." She clutched her new Nancy Drew book. It looked really interesting. Nancy was investigating a kidnapping.
"Okay," said her brother, turning back to his girlfriend. "I think that's a red light."
Isadora made the car go faster. "Don't be ridiculous," she said, smiling. "It's yellow."
He shook his head, looking worried. "No, that was definitely a red light."
She giggled. "You're so paranoid. Oops!"
A hideous crunching noise made everybody in the car wince. "What was that?" asked Quigley. He was sitting in the backseat with Sunny. "What'd you do?"
Isadora shrugged. "It's not my fault stupid people let their trash cans roll into the street."
"Um, maybe I should drive?" said Klaus tentatively.
"Oh, c'mon," laughed Isadora. "I've driven before."
"When?" asked Sunny, shivering a little.
"Oh, you know," she replied vaguely. "I've played the video games a lot. I mean, we're already this far, aren't we?"
"Okay." Sunny settled back. She had a point. They were almost home.
"Aaaah!" They swerved wildly. Sunny heard Klaus blurt out a word she'd never heard him say before.
"What was that?!" yelled Quigley.
Isadora shook her head as they proceeded into the right lane. "You guys! There was a squirrel there! I didn't want to hurt him!"
Quigley shook his head. "You probably gave him a heart attack."
Klaus nodded. "You gave me one..."
Sunny smiled, trying to focus on the reckless driving instead of what she had seen. The picture remained in her mind, staining it. She hated it.
Violet. Why would Violet do something like that when she had somebody like Quigley? Quigley deserved better than Violet. He deserved somebody who could laugh at his jokes, somebody who would listen to him, somebody who was...
Somebody like Sunny.
It hit her with a jolt.
She, Sunny, liked Quigley.
Sorry about that last part...sort of lifted it from that revelation scene in Clueless, didn't I? Oh, well. I like Clueless.