The Diary of Nancy Drew
Chapter 3Disclaimer: I only own Mark, the O'Brian's, any later additional characters, and the plot.
December 21
This MorningWell I had 3 messages on the answering machine. The first was from Bess asking how my date with Ned went. Typical Bess, she will always be the romantic out of all my friends. I deleted her message making a mental note to call her back and talk to her and George about the NED problem. I can still hardly believe it. If I hadn't woken up with my mascara still all messed up from crying this morning I would have thought it was a dream.
My next message was from Frank. He told me he wanted to talk to me. His voice sounded urgent, so I figured I'd go ahead and call him.
After the Phone CallWell, surprise, surprise. Frank is on an investigation involving the O'Brian's. When he mentioned that he was trailing some jewelry thieves by the last name of O'Brian, and that they just happened to have been last spotted near Chicago. And since Chicago is near River Heights Frank thought he'd call to see if I'd heard anything about it. I asked him to describe them. It matched the O'Brian's I knew to a T. All except one thing, the son is supposed to be the mastermind of the whole thing and I just couldn't picture David being a master anything. I mentioned this to Frank and he said some people are just born actors. I can agree on that, especially with my experience with criminals. He asked if David had acted weird at all when I met him, I had told him about the whole Brenda incident. I told him I couldn't think of anything really weird except his whole dumb expression. Then I remembered how weird he acted around bringing up my dad's name. And my dad does happen to be a Criminal Law Attorney.
So Frank and I threw ideas around for a while about the whole case. He didn't know if he would be able to get down to River Heights anytime soon, so he asked if I could keep an eye on them and notify Chief McGinnis. I agreed, sad that he couldn't get to River Heights before Christmas. Then he asked about Ned and me, of all things to talk about. I carefully told him about the break up, knowing how protective he and Joe are about me. All of a sudden he started screaming his head off asking why was Ned such an idiot not to realize what he's giving up. I just kind of sat there speechless while he vented his anger for about 5 minutes. Well maybe 10. I never knew he cared so much.
Then the line went silent. I guess he noticed I hadn't been talking for a while, or 10 minutes. "Nan," he said. "Are you gonna be OK? Do you need me and Joe to come down to River Heights for a while?" I knew he had a job and all so I refused, again, and again. I told him I was gonna be OK and that it had helped to talk about a case with him. And if worst came to worst I would always have Bess and George, and Dad and Hannah.
So then we got to talking about Joe and Vanessa. I told him I couldn't believe the Joe Hardy had finally settled on one girl. He said he couldn't either. The funny thing was, Joe didn't seem to mind not being able to flirt with other girls very much. He was perfectly fine with it. I asked Frank if Joe was sick. He said no. Then I asked if Van was pregnant. He paused for a second and then said, "Well you know, that might be it. How come I never thought of that?" Then I went on and on about how MEN don't have common sense. He asked me what had he ever done to get stuck with me for a friend. I told him he was lucky to get stuck with me as a friend. It could be worse. He asked how, I told him I could be your sister and Joe your friend. Then we started laughing. I told him I had to go. Now I'm going to check the rest of my messages.
After the Last MessageOh my gosh. The last message was from David O'Brian! He said he need some help because he and his family were in trouble and he new my dad was a lawyer. He left a number for me to call him back with. I just stood there speechless for a while. Could David and his family really be innocent, the way this message seemed to say, or was it all a cover up? I thought about it for a while.
Then I called Bess. I told her about the whole Ned issue. She insisted that she and George were going to come over and have a Girls Night Out, or Girls Night In, in this case. She even convinced me to take off work the next day, which wasn't that, big of a deal since I was just going to do paper work at home anyway.
Soon Bess arrived with George and they both had like 5 bags of stuff each.
-2 tubs of chocolate ice cream
-2 tubs of vanilla ice cream
-3 bags of M&M's
-Monopoly
-Trouble
-Gone With the Wind
-Titanic
-Chocolate syrup
-Carmel syrup
-Trivial Pursuit
-Seasons 1-4 of Gilmore Girls
-Seasons 1-3 of Friends
-4 boxes of Cheese and Pepperoni Pizza
We stayed up until 6 in the morning talking, playing games, eating, and watching movies. It was a blast and really helped me feel better about the whole Ned thing. We talked about everything from Christmas to boys. It was so much like old times. They even got me to tell them about all the times me and Frank had KISSED! I have never told anyone about that.
I guess that goes to show you what too much sugar can do to you. I found out that Bess and Joe had shared a kiss or two also. Then we talked about Mick Devlin, who was the only guy ever to propose to me. It happened when we were in Europe. But I was still in love with Ned and Mick was from Australia and I couldn't just go to Australia and never see River Heights and Dad again. So I told him no.
We also talked about Jake Collins and Micheal Gianelli my two college loves. This was during one of me and Ned's break ups, although it was a pretty long break up, 2 years. Jake and I broke up 'cause we just didn't understand each other the way we should if we were in love. He just didn't get the fact that I didn't like my dad's girlfriend, whom he isn't dating anymore. So we ended that relationship.
Well with Micheal. We were just so much alike that we clicked right away. This was maybe a month or 2 after Jake. He understood the whole dad thing because his mom had died when he was young too. So his dad had girlfriends that Micheal hadn't liked too. But it ended with Micheal because, well, we were just too much alike. We were at each other's throats, literally. The campus police busted us though. We ended that there and then. After college I got back together with Ned, whom just ended that relationship, for good, yesterday.
We gossiped about Brenda too. That was so much fun and so relaxing. I really can't believe how relaxing it is to say stuff about mean, spoiled, selfish, intolerable, conceited, brats. Ha. That felt good. But, yeah, we talked about Brenda's new eye candy. I told them about the whole Frank/jewelry thief thing.
Then I remembered Ned's gift. I asked Bess and George what I should do with it. Well they came up with some crazy ideas. First we put them both in the washing machine. Then we put them in the dryer. Well after that they barely resembled a book and gift card at all. Then we froze them in water and took them out of the freezer a couple hours later. We then put them in the blender and destroyed them, and my blender. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, although it does sound a bit drastic, I was feeling pretty drastic.
Then Bess and George passed out on the living room floor.
Oh my gosh I forgot to call Chief McGinnis. I'll call him in the morning I guess. I'm gonna go to sleep now.
Love,
Nancy Elizabeth Drew
happy half note- hey, thanks. I'm gonna write a chapter a day. The chapters will be around 1,000 words each. Maybe more. This should work really well during my Christmas break. It'll be harder when I get back in school but I hope to keep this up for a while. And maybe write sequels!
Roswalyn- thanks. I thought it was a cool idea too. It just kind of came to me. Hopefully it will all work out good. I've started writing stories before but I've never finished them. But I've also never been into them as much as I'm into this story so it should all work out.
lightwarai- Thanks. I like doing it through Nancy's perspective too. Have you ever read the new ND series? It goes through Nancy's perspective. And Nancy isn't perfect, which I like. My story is gonna be a lot like that.
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