"Hello?"said the person on the other end.
"Hello."said Arm.
"You guys detectives?"
"Yup. Sneaky husbands are our specialty.
"Dude, I'm a guy, okay. I need you to helped me with something I can't figure out. And it's in your department."
"We solve all kinds of mysteries."
"Even better. Can you come right now?"
"Sure."
They got into the car and drove off.
"What took you so long?"
"Traffic, but we got here as fast as possible. What's the mystery?"asked Lance.
"It's inside."
They walked into the house, and went into a bedroom with an aquarium in the corner furthest from the window.
"See?"he said, pointing to it.
"It's nice."said Lance. "Hmm."he walked over to look at it. "Tiger barbs, rainbow fish, and wow, you've got three snails. Neat. What do you need somany for? What do you feed them? How long have you had them?"
"We're not pet sitters!"exclaime Pietro and Ear togethor.
"Nice aquarium, yo."
"Well, thanks. I got it for my birthday. The point is, I need to know whether the snails are boys or girls. My sister says she thinks they might breed."
"So?"asked Eye.
"Well, aren't you guys detectives? These are Mystery snails."
"Funny joke."said Pietro.
"No joke. That's what the sign said. Plus, my sister knows about them, and she calls them that, too."
"Hmm, you've got all different colors. Blue, gold, black, and ivory. Cool."Lance said, looking at the snails.
"So, can you tell? My sister tried, but she couldn't she said. She said we need someone who knows."
"How are we supposed to know?"
"You're detectives. You solve mysteries. These are Mystery snails."
Lance sighed.
"Well, I guess we're already here, we might as well do it."
He took a close look at one of the snails that were sticking to the glass.
"They all look the same to me, yo."
"Let me see."said Eye. "He's right, they do look the same."
"You're supposed to take them out. I know that much. Let's see. Well, I guess we'll have to take them out."
"You're supposed to take the whole thing off."
Lance removed the hood.
"You take them out. My sister always does that. I don't. I'm really scared to put my hand in cause there's fish in there."
"You're scared of the fish?"
"What if they die if I do that?"
"Then maybe we can use the net."
Lance reached for the net.
"My sister gets the snails with her hand. The one she doesn't wear the watch on."
Lance put his hand in. When he did, one of th snails fell to the bottom of the tank.
"You just dropped a snail!"
"He went in by himself. Anyway, now I don't have to pull him."
He took the snail out.
"These are my sister's books, fool."he said, as he gave Lance some of the books. "We gotta put them back. So be careful with them."
"I see. It is kind of hard to tell. You can't really tell. They're tiny."
Eye looked at the photographs, then at all three snails, when they got them out of the water, and on the nighttable, since he had the best vision, and could spot even a flea on the hairiest dog.
"Boy. Girl. Girl."he said.
"So the black one's a boy?"he asked.
"Looks like it."
"Okay."
Lance put the hood back on, but as a bunch of caps wer hanging above the aquarium, the hood hit one, and it fell into the water.
"That's my baseball cap! I have a gave next Monday."
"Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to."
"Aw, man! You need to turn the light back on. My sister says that the light has to be on. Otherwise the catfish comes out, and he might eat the little fish. They have to go in the jar for the night till they get a little bigger."
They drove home.
"How weird."
"Well, the snails and the fish were kind of cool."said Lance. "I always wanted an aquarium!"
"Whatever."
As soon as they got home, a few minutes later, the phone rang. Arm answered it, as usual.