Chapter Nineteen

After Teresa left, the night was pretty uneventful. Harriet came back a few hours later. Apparently now having a set date in court. By that time, Danny was lying awake in his bed. Thinking over the last few days. Some things made sense but others still didn't. Around 1 AM, he gave up on sleep an compiled a list of unanswered questions:

1. Who killed my sister?
2. What's the deal with the play? Why are they still calling me Inviso-bill? Why am I automatically the lead part? What is the play about?
3. What do these people have to do with each other: Teresa, Plasmius, Katie, Jake, Alana, Dash, Rebecca, Paulina, Portia, Miss. Masters.
4. What happened at the Thospherus's house?
5. Why did Katie say her mom had died?
6. Where was Dash a few days ago?
7. Why was Dash doing a report on "Ninja Bunnies and the Big Carrot"?
8. Why are Teresa, Jake, and Katie moving?

Danny sighed as he looked at the list. he was no closer to finding the answers to these questions than when he started out.

School next day was a nightmare. It didn't take long for everybody to find out about Teresa running away. Her mother spent the day cornering kids demanding any information they might have about her daughter's departure.

Kids were starting to talk to Danny again. Except for the Popular kids and Mikey, who said that he had enough to worry about without being quizzed by Sherlock Holmes. However, the real pandemonium started at the auditorium. Teresa had left a cast list but her replacement was having a hard time filling the vacancies still left.

Adding to his problems, Danny heard from some kids in PE that he had gotten the lead part. He didn't even audition! This created tension between him and many other members of the cast. It woulds have helped if his friends had been beside him during this. But Tucker was being forced to spend some "quality time" with his father. And Sam was still asleep, though her mother said when he called during luinch that she was awake briefly and Demanding to see him.

"Then she just passed out... not before-" Ms. Manson paused, "Forget I said anything."

Immediately curious, Danny pressured her until...

"Okay! She...um...she said your sister was the one who knocked her out"