In a storage room at the Philadelphia Convention Center, movers were putting on the finishing touches for the Pennsylvania Dancers Convention. One of them found a DVD called "Dance Of Fortune" in the original 1950s reel. Someone came up and stole the DVD and replace it with a badly drawn version of the DVD cover.
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In the morning, the Kirby Klue Queens, Fayth, Leelanee, and Uncle Rusty were outside the Philadelphia Convention Center. "Can you believe" Leah said, "we're actually here at the Pennsylvania Dancers Convention? All it took was a little decluttering of Rusty's credit card, a little extra tip money, and that tutoring funding from Tania."
"Where's your uncle anyway?" asked Tania.
"Right here, girls!" shouted Rusty from behind.
They can see that Rusty was holding hands with another man, who was a bit muscular, had straight golden blonde hair, and wore dancer clothes. "Wow, Rusty," said the man. "I can't believe you get to go to a dancers convention here in Philadelphia."
"Who's the dancer dude?" asked Rylie.
"Our uncle's new boyfriend, Eli," Kaylin explained.
"I've been suspecting that Uncle Rusty had been flirting with men," Fayth said, "But never had I seen him holding hands with a man."
"What is wrong with Uncle Rusty?" asked Leelanee "Aren't men only allowed to date women?"
Fayth wasn't so sure about Leelanee's question. "Kaylin," Fayth said to her older sister, "I don't think you should tell Leelanee. She's too young."
"Come on," Leelanee said. "I want to know the truth about Uncle Rusty."
Kaylin took a deep sigh. "You see, Leelanee," Kaylin said, "Uncle Rusty is bisexual. He has always had lovers both male and female. He started having the signs around my age when he fell hard for the captain of the boy's swim team at his high school. He was too afraid because students would laugh at him, but only Mom understood his sexuality and decided to keep the whole thing quiet until he was ready. When Uncle Rusty got to college, he finally came out of the closet by submitting a DVD to his parents. Nana and Grandpops were paralyzed a little bit, but got over it when they saw his online pics of helping out a bisexual campaign."
"Really?" asked Leelanee.
Kaylin nodded her head. "If Nana and Grandpops can support Uncle Rusty being bisexual," she said as she hugged Rusty and Eli, "so can I."
"I'm glad you understand at age 5, Leelanee," Fayth replied. "I've been understanding Uncle Rusty's sexuality for a year."
"By the way," asked Estrella, "how did you guys meet?"
"They met at the library during that lecture on Indian soups," Eli explained. "He had this killer Jamaican bisque recipe that made me crave more."
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Inside the convention center, they saw numerous people gathering around an unveiling. "They're finally displaying the 1950s movie 'Dance of Fortune'," Tania smiled, "in the original 1950s release."
"What is it about?" Fayth asked.
"The movie is about a high-class girl from Italy and a low-class boy from Canada meeting at a dance camp in Colorado," explained Tania. "A week after they met, they discovered that a greedy real estate tycoon was going to demolish the camp and turn it into a parking lot. In order to save it, they put on a show and raise money to stop the demolition."
"It's like a '50s version of 'Dirty Dancing'," said Fayth. "That's one of your favorite movies."
"I know," Kaylin replied. "I've been dreaming of dancing with Patrick Swayze a lot."
"That's my favorite movie, too," replied Eli. "I even played Johnny Castle in my senior high school production." The girls got even more interested in Eli's behavior.
As the movers pulled back the curtain, all they can see was the badly drawn "Dance of Fortune" DVD cover. "Someone has stolen the DVD!" shouted one of the patrons.
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Later, the Klue Queens asked the organizer of the convention on who took the DVD. All they got were four suspects.
Movers Karolina and Kade - They both seemed obsessed with "Dance of Fortune."
Mila Caradonna - Granddaughter of "Dance of Fortune"'s leading lady, Aubrey Caradonna.
Adeline Ewart - Granddaughter of "Dance of Fortune"'s leading male, Mason Ewart.
"We got the suspects," Leah said.
"And I think we already found our first clue," Tania said as she showed the note.
I Saw the Sign of All That She Wants is a Beautiful Life.
"Wait a sec," said Paige. "Those are all songs from the 1990s Swedish group Ace of Base. My dad has all of their albums and listens to them all the time."
"Let's split up," Leah suggested. "Estrella, Swinger, and I will take Mila, Kaylin, Paige, and Kirby, you three take Leelanee and Fayth and check Karolina and Kade, and as for Tania and Rylie, you girls check Adeline."
Rusty and Eli both knew that they needed some help. So Rusty decided to help Leah and Estrella and Eli decided to help Tania and Rylie. They peck-cheeked and took off.
Eli caught up with Tania and Rylie as they were about to leave and offered, "Maybe I could help you on the mystery."
"Really?" Kaylin asked. "How so?"
"Everyone knows that 'Dance of Fortune' is very popular in Sweden," he said. "They say that they would pay a formogenhet for a DVD in a rare condition."
Rylie and Tania didn't know what Eli meant. "I studied a semester of Swedish while I was in college," he replied. "The word they say, 'förmögenhet' - that's Swedish for fortune."
"He's right," Adeline said. She had mid-length curly brown hair, green eyes, and wore a green tank, blue capris, and green boots. "Swedes are huge fonds of the movie," she continued. "That they say that Abba was influenced by it. Grandpa Mason met them once, and boy, was he rude to them. He got banned from all Abba concerts after that."
"Your grandfather was mean?" Tania asked.
"Even though that Everly and Isaiah were sweethearts in the film," Adeline explained, "Aubrey and Grandpa Mason never really got along. They were always pranking each other, getting on each other's nerves. And during interviews, Mason made a clown of himself. For me on the other hand, I think he's just being silly. I came to the convention, hoping to let the Ewarts and the Caradonna settle their differences and become friends."
Tania was pleased by that but wondered if Mila felt the same.
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At the dressing rooms in the convention center, Leah, Estrella, and Swinger were with Rusty and on the prowl. "Rusty," whispered Leah, "this is not a good time for any sneaking up."
"I know" Rusty replied, "but I want to help you with a little mystery solving."
By Mila's dressing room, Leah knocked on the door and asked if they could talk about her grandmother. "Si," said Mila. "I would love a little interview." In her dressing room, she explained that her grandmother was always a serious actress. "She always said that she wanted to keep things the original way," she explained. "Before she passed away, she requested that they should make a DVD in the original 1950s reel. It took them 5 months to make the DVD in the original reel. They had to go through a lot of processes to complete it."
"That is true," Rusty explained, "I remember my college roommate learning to make DVDs in his filmmaking class."
"But how do you feel about Adeline?" Estrella said.
"I wanted to be friends with her for a long time," Adeline explained, "but I was afraid that my grandmother would be angry for befriending a member of a rival family."
"Don't worry," Leah replied. "Just because your grandparents were enemies in the past, doesn't mean you can't be friends with their relatives."
Adeline smiled, knowing that she had the confidence to ask Mila if they could be friends. "May I make a suggestion?" asked Rusty. "Take a cooking class on soups. That's how I met Eli."
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Meanwhile, Kaylin, Paige, Fayth, Leelanee, and Kirby were going by the cafeteria. They saw Kjell and Karolina looking around to see if anyone was spying on them, then they activated the secret password connected to the soda machine. "I saw the sign of all that she wants is a beautiful life," whispered Karolina as they opened the secret entrance.
It was starting to make sense know; the paper they found was a password for unlocking a secret entrance. Before the secret entrance could close, all four girls and the little puffball alien rushed towards the closing door. "Is everyone here?" asked Paige.
"Fine and dandy," Kaylin replied. "Now to find out why would a bunch of movers use a secret entrance to the convention center.
They followed the path when they came across a painting of the couple. Paige remembered reading those mystery books from the library, and in one of them they had a button that led to another room. On the bottom, she saw a pattern of blue flowers and in the middle was a red flower. With a press of the red flower, they were inside a Swedish antique store.
Kirby looked at a vase, but Paige stopped him. "Kirby," she said, "remember what we learned from window shopping training? You broke it, you bought it." She got out a candy bar from her bag and suggested, "Have a candy bar instead." Kirby grabbed it and ate it.
Fayth started looking around when she saw a light by a door. The Klue Queens decided to peek through the small opening, so they wouldn't get caught. They saw Karolina and Kade examining the DVD that was stolen while eating Chinese takeout.
"Well, Kjell," Karolina said in a Swedish accent as she ate an egg roll, "we finally got the rare DVD."
"Kjell?" our heroes asked in a whisper.
"I know, honey," Kjell replied as he peck kissed his wife. "Now we're going to make a fortune after we sold it to those millionaires in Philadelphia."
"Do you hear them?" Paige whispered. "They sound like they have a cold."
"Or maybe because they're not American," whispered Kaylin. "They're Swedish."
Leelanee found a vase and shouted, "Look at me to the Dance of The Swedish Snowglobes, Kaylin!"
"Leelanee," chastised Kaylin, "one of the rules of being a detective: you gotta stay quiet when spying on the bad guys."
In their office, Kjell and Karolina grabbed some spears to see who's trespassing. As they were rushing out, Karolina accidentally dropped some lo mein.
"What have we here?" Karolina asked. "A bunch of American trespassers."
"We hate trespassers," Kjell replied, "6 months of American accent tutorials on Facetube, 4 months of acting classes, and 3 days of creating fake IDs for the convention center to get that DVD and we got caught."
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On the ground, could see the lo mein that Karolina accidentally dropped. "Suck it up, Kirby!" Kaylin shouted as tossed the lo mien to Kirby, turning him into Sword Kirby.
Kirby caught on in a duel between him and Kjell. Kaylin and Paige saw their chance to take back the DVD. But as Paige placed the DVD in her bag, she saw Fayth and Leelanee being scared of Karolina. "Fayth," shouted Kaylin, "remember that Carl Douglas song about kung fu!"
Fayth knew what she meant. With a little kick and a chop of the spear, Fayth and Leelanee made their escape. "Good thing I earned the Kung Fu Fighting badge," Fayth said, "thanks to you, Kaylin."
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Later, the police were at the convention with the handcuffed Swedish couple. They wondered how they knew that they stole the DVD. "Our first code was the note left behind when the DVD was stolen," Leah replied. "It had the phrase, 'I saw the sign of all that she wants is a beautiful life. Which are all Ace of Base songs."
"Our second clue was Eli saying that they would pay a förmögenhet, which is Swedish for 'fortune'," explained Tania, "meaning that the person wanting to buy the movie isn't American."
"And remember that secret entrance connected from the convention center to the antique store?" Rylie said. "They must've snuck into the convention center from there."
"As antique dealers, we knew that it was worth one million dollars," finished Karolina. "So my husband and I posed as fake American movers and stole it to make millions."
"And the rare DVD would've been ours if it weren't for you dancing queens," explained Kjell.
"That's Kirby Klue Queens," Estrella corrected.
"I've got to admit," Eli said to his boyfriend, "your eldest niece and her friends are pretty cool." He kissed Rusty on the cheek, much to Leelanee and Fayth's delight.
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A few days later at the community center, Eli was teaching the girls the "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" dance from "Dirty Dancing."
"Since you work here as a dancing instructor for kids," said Leah, "it was nice that you gave us a free lesson, Eli."
Kirby and Swinger were watching in a corner of the dance studio and thought that they could do the same thing.
"Can you believe that Mila and Adeline are best friends now?" asked Rylie. "And all it took was a little pep talk."
"As the hippies always say," Paige replied to Rylie, "make love, not war."
Kirby was getting ready to do the "Dirty Dancing" lift dance when he tripped and landed on the pile of tote bags. He came out of the cloths wearing Tania's scarf and started posing like a movie star, and everyone laughed.
The End.