And here we go with another episode, which is 'Hall Monitor'! Anyway, enjoy!

Despite my better interests, I had to sit with Curly at lunch, but fortunately, Phoebe and Nadine were with me as we sat down.

Curly smiled as he looked up. "Good to see you girls have arrived."

"Just tell us what you found out." I rolled my eyes.

"Well, I pieced together a few of the answers that Frankie G had gave to the officers in interviews... and it's not really crazy, if you take a closer look." Curly said, pulling out some articles.

We looked them over as we noticed he circled in a lot of letters. I raised an eyebrow. "So you cut out some vague answers Frankie G gave in a newspaper interview and circled a few words. What exactly are you getting at?"

"Well, if you see the order of the letters, they seemed to be random, but if you look closer, they do form a sentence." Curly said. "Look closer."

I paused as I looked at the letters. Phoebe instantly wrote the letters down as she formed a sentence. She frowned. "If you put the circled letters into a sentence, it forms 'Lana Vail is behind the madness'. What?"

"Don't you see?" Curly smiled. "It all makes sense. Rhonda, you said something about Mr. Smith having a secret mission, right? And Lana Vail happened to live in the same apartment as Mr. Smith then, right?"

I nodded. "Yeah, but... what does this have to do with Tucker?"

"Well, according to resources, Lana Vail is no ordinary human being. Apparently, she's a spirit who whisks kids to alternate dimensions and freezes them in a time stabilization vortex where they remain frozen in time, unaware of the changes taking place." Curly explained. "Apparently, Lana hired Frankie G, along with a few members of a street gang to kidnap various kids on a list she had... I think Arnold was on the top of her list."

"Why would Arnold be at the top?" I raised an eyebrow.

"...Well, when she first moved in, she was eyeing Arnold... quite a lot." Curly explained. "However, Mr. Smith has been keeping tabs on Lana Vail, hoping to catch her in the act. She would have went straight for Arnold, but Mr. Smith was still in the building, probably keeping an eye on her. So she had no choice but to leave... and to leave no evidence behind, she wiped out practically all the memories of the people she lived with in the building, except for Mr. Smith who was out at the time, sealed up the door she lived in, and took her leave as soon as she did. And once Mr. Smith left when he had a false clue to the whereabouts of Lana Vail..."

"...she took her opportunity." Nadine said, gulping. "Lana Vail needs to be taken down."

"For now, though, she's going to lay low, so who knows when she'll strike again." Curly said. "For now though, we wait. If we see something that indicates another kid kidnapping, we need to take action." Curly said.

I paused. "We'll... keep our ears and eyes out."

"What an insane lunatic!" I said as I sat down between Nadine and Phoebe in the auditorium. "Lana Vail is the mastermind? What?"

"Well, you have to keep in possibilities, Rhonda." Phoebe said. "You never know when the crazy happens."

I paused. "Well, all right. If we have to rely on Curly's word, we'll rely on it... for now... but this isn't over!"

As soon as we got comfortable in our seats in the auditorium, Principal Wartz came up to the microphone to give his announcement to everyone. Apparently we were all told to come after lunch to gather around.

"And now boys and girls, the reason I've called you all here is to pick the Hall Monitor of the week!" Principal Wartz smiled.

Everyone nearly groaned... except for me as I kept my eyes. I whispered, "Yes! Come on, come on!"

"Why are you so excited for Hall Monitor?" Nadine asked. "All they do is reprimand students and get them to follow orders."

"Ah, but they also have good access to the lunch lines... AND they have that nice break room from what I hear." I sighed. "Rumor has it there's a snack machine with all types of potato chip flavors... and the best part is that it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop... plus, you wear a pretty neat uniform with it."

Nadine sighed. "I guess if you're into that sort of thing..."

"I'm glad I'm not..." Phoebe said. "I'm just not into authority."

"Of course you're not, Phoebe." I smiled. "Our status quo indicates you're the small cute, smart geeky girl of our group. We wouldn't want to break that..."

Phoebe frowned as she looked up at me. "I wish you'd stop calling me small and cute."

"But you are. You're the most adorable girl in our group!" I smiled.

She glared at me. "You know, adorable can be tough."

"Sure. Keep glaring cutely at me." I rolled my eyes. "I'm so scared of you."

Principal Wartz then dug around a small bucket and pulled out a name. "And the Hall Monitor of the week is... Phoebe Heyerdal!" Principal Wartz read.

"Phoebe?" I said in shock and disbelief.

"Phoebe?" Nadine said in worry.

"Me?" Phoebe yelped timidly.

The marching band started to play as Phoebe went up as Principal Wartz gave Phoebe the sash and the uniform. I scoffed as I whispered to Nadine. "I am SO jealous. The timid cute one gets the job as she puts on the sash and..."

I looked closer as I smiled, seeing Phoebe putting on the hat and the badge, "Never mind, she's so adorable wearing that outfit!"

"W-well, not quite what I had in mind when I got this... responsibility." Phoebe said nervously as she was carrying the uniform.

"Oh, I don't blame you, Phoebe. Someone so adorkable would never pull off this job." I smiled.

She frowned. "What do you mean 'adorkable'?"

"Oh, you know, someone who's the nicest, cutest, and never gets taken seriously when somebody's a hall monitor." I smiled.

She glared. "You don't think I can do this job?"

"Come on, Phoebe, you've been sort of a follower. You always let people push you around, even when you don't need to, you always be nice by doing the usual 'excuse me', you never boss people around, only when you need to, you always let people walk over you, you're always talked over and stepped on, AND when authority DOES need to take place, you usually let me or Nadine do the work!" I explained. "You're no authority girl, you're more... secretary type."

"No offense, Phoebe, but you're just too adorable to pull off 'authority'." Nadine said.

Phoebe frowned. "You don't think I can do it? I can do it!"

"Yeah right, Phoebe. You're our baby girl!" I smiled.

"I'm your what?" Phoebe blinked.

"She's our what?" Nadine blinked.

I shook my head. "Uh, nothing. Sorry. I said, 'you're too cute to pull this off'!" I said,

"You don't think I can pull it off! I can be an authority figure!" She glared at me. "I can be tough! You just watch! Tomorrow, I'm going to be so tough, you'll regret those words!"

"Okay, cutie!" I smirked.

Phoebe growled as she walked off.

Nadine looked in worry as she said, "Maybe we shouldn't have pushed Phoebe's buttons... you know how she can be when referred to as the 'cute follower'."

"But she IS cute! She's adorable!" I smiled.

"I'm talking more about the follower part..." Nadine sighed. "Sure, she can just go along with our lead, but she's also come up with most of our plans. People always assume she's our third wheel..."

"But she's our third friend in our group." I said. "She was just a lonely girl without a lot of friends, and we both took her in... she's like part of our friend family."

"Friend family?" Nadine raised an eyebrow as we kept walking.

"Framily, as I like to put it. It's not a word, but I like to think of our friendship as such." I explained. "Whatever, I'm sure she'll get over it. Besides, she'll probably not want the Hall Monitor job, she'll talk to Principal Wartz, he'll understand, and give it to another person. No big deal."

"I hope you're right, for your sake." Nadine rolled her eyes.

"I know I'm right." I smiled.

"...I was so horribly wrong." I said in horror a couple of days as I turned to Nadine, who was smirking to me.

"Told you so." Nadine smiled.

"When did Phoebe take so much time in decorating the halls with a ton of rules?" I said, noticing all the road signs and rules, some nearby the water fountains and arrows pointing around the floor.

"Yo, halt!" Phoebe's voice said out loud as a kid was stopping from running in the halls.

"Yo, halt?" I whispered to Nadine. "What is wrong with her? She's supposed to be the timid one!"

"That's what happens when you get called adorable and a follower one too many times." Nadine explained.

We then turned back to Phoebe who was writing down a ticket and giving the ticket to the kid. "You'll have plenty of time to think it over... IN DETENTION! End of the week! Be there!"

"What?" I whispered to Nadine. "I'm pretty sure that hall monitors DON'T have that authority."

"Technically, they do." Nadine whispered. "I've read that in some schools, one of the privileges is giving a student detention if they caused more than enough rowdiness. You get three strikes and you get detention."

I sighed. "Well, whether she does have the authority or not, at least she's not bugging us. We ARE her friends, she'll understand..."

"Rhonda, Nadine, there you two are!" Phoebe frowned, coming up to us, writing down a ticket. "You got detention for the end of the week!"

"What?" Nadine said in shock.

"For what purpose?" I said.

"Loitering, strike one, talking noisily in a quiet environment..." Phoebe started.

"We were WHISPERING!" I frowned.

"...talking noisily in a quiet environment, strike two..." Phoebe frowned. "...and talking back to an officer, strike three."

"WHAT?" Both me and Nadine stared in disbelief.

"Okay, Phoebe, we need to have a SERIOUS talk!" I said as I pulled Phoebe to the side. "What is the matter with you? The other day, you were so timid, you always were so nice, NOW you're being a tyrant!"

"A tyrant, am I?" Phoebe frowned.

"Yes!" Nadine frowned. "This is not the Phoebe we know! Sure, the Phoebe we knew was a little timid..."

"Exactly!" Phoebe frowned. "I'm through being pushed around."

"We never said that." I said. "Phoebe, you're adorable because that is who you are. You can't just change up personalities because you hate being called..."

"A follower?" Phoebe raised an eyebrow. "Well, congratulations, Rhonda. You finally get it."

"Ph-Phoebe?" I said as Phoebe started to walk off.

"Well, it happened..." Nadine sighed. "The timid one who gets taken advantage of FINALLY gets pushed a little too far."

"We never take advantage of her! She's just letting the power get into her head!" I sighed.

"Psst! Girls!"

Me and Nadine stopped as we turned to see Harold from behind a hallway, motioning to us. Curious, we walked over to where Harold was as Harold nodded. "Good, you're both here!"

"Harold, what is it you want with us?" I asked.

"You may have noticed a SLIGHT attitude change in Phoebe." Harold said.

"Yeah, we noticed." Nadine sighed.

"Listen, this is my fault." Harold said.

I raised an eyebrow. "Wait... how was this your fault?"

"Well, the other day, Phoebe came up to me for advice on how to be a good hall monitor. You all remember I was a hall monitor last month." Harold said.

"How can we forget?" I rolled my eyes as Nadine rolled hers too. Of course we remember. Around last month, Harold got chosen to be a hall monitor, and he was pretty strict with the rules. We all hated it, but at least Harold treated the rules with respect.

"Well, I tried to teach her what I knew... but it ended up going a LITTLE too far. She got the idea... but she put it up ten-fold!" Harold explained

"What were you hoping to accomplish?" I asked.

"...I wanted lunch-line privileges again." Harold said. "Turns out I turned her MORE stricter than I thought."

"Well, what can we do? Go to Principal Wartz and tell him that Phoebe is flaunting her authority? If anything, I'm pretty sure Principal Wartz will gladly APPROVE of what Phoebe's doing for this school!" I said.

"Well, it wouldn't hurt to try, would it?" Nadine said.

"Just be careful." Harold said as me and Nadine went on.

"I appreciate you two taking your time to take this up with me, but I don't see why you're so concerned. If anything, what your friend is doing is justice." Principal Wartz explained as we were sitting in his office.

"Yes, but she's been acting like a horrible role model lately." I sighed. "She's been forcing students to follow the rules, she gives tickets to innocent people who don't react until AFTER she says she gives detention, EVEN when the kids don't do anything to earn said detention until after they react, AND she's more strict than... well, she's more strict, is the point."

"Look, kids, I'm sorry if Phoebe is doing her job, but that is exactly what she is assigned to do... do her job. I can't fire her out of hall monitor duties unless she is seen breaking a rule, like chewing gum. But unless she breaks a rule, I can't fire her." Principal Wartz explained.

I sighed. "Well, thanks anyway. We'll keep following the rules."

"You better. Now, you better get back to your classes..." Principal Wartz said as we went on our way.

As soon as we went outside, I turned to Nadine. "So much for Principal Wartz' help."

"Maybe... but I did get an idea to get Phoebe to get off her job..." Nadine smiled. "Want to do a little spy reconnaissance?"

I smiled in interest. "When don't I want to?"

The next day, Nadine and I were whistling as Phoebe came by, frowning as she came by. "So, what did you want to call me for?"

"We just wanted to say... we're sorry, we were wrong." I sighed.

"We thought you couldn't handle being an authority figure, but you've done a really good job, Phoebe." Nadine smiled.

Phoebe paused as she smiled, "Thanks girls... that's all I wanted... a little appreciation."

"Anyway, we thought we'd give you a little something, for good luck on the last couple of days for Hall Monitor." I smiled as I handed her a pack of chewing gum. "Here."

Phoebe blinked. "Chewing gum?"

"Of course." I smiled. "Hall monitors always have a right to chew gum in the hallways. Isn't that in your rulebook?"

Phoebe quickly took out the Hall Monitor rulebook and flipped through it... until she looked. "Hmmm... guess it is."

Phoebe then took out a piece of gum as she unwrapped it and started chewing it.

"Stand a little closer to that spot, will you?" I said as Phoebe moved to where I pointed.

"That fine?" Phoebe asked.

"Perfect." I smiled. "Oh look, it's Principal Wartz, coming this way."

Phoebe then turned and saluted as Principal Wartz was coming over. He smiled to Phoebe, then did a double take as he glared. "Are you chewing gum?"

"Yes, I am. In the rulebook." Phoebe smirked as she pointed to the rulebook.

Me and Nadine looked at each other... and smirked. Oh boy, she was going to get it.

A little later at lunch, Phoebe, now no longer with the sash, badge and hat, was just shaking in confusion as if wondering HOW this was possible. "B-but... the rules... th-they're n-never... how... I..."

"Still don't get the concept you just got fired from hall monitor duties, Phoebe?" I smirked.

"B-but..." Phoebe said. "This can't be..."

Nadine whispered, "We should probably tell her."

"Phoebe, listen. WE put that fake rule about chewing gum in your book." I explained.

Phoebe stared in surprise. "What? How?"

"Well... let me explain..." I took a deep breath.

"It all began yesterday afternoon, everybody was getting off class and going out... via your rules."

Yesterday afternoon, me and Nadine were seen walking out as we quickly hid behind the stair banister, waiting until every student came out.

"We waited until you walked out, heading for home. We followed you until we reached your house."

We saw Phoebe walking out as me and Nadine kept jumping around each corner as we followed her. Eventually Phoebe reached her home as she went inside. Me and Nadine nodded as we took a ladder from nearby and started climbing up as I peeked in. Phoebe went inside her room as she unpacked everything, including the one thing we needed... the hall monitor rule book. She decided to put it on a nearby desk.

"Getting the book and you separated was the hard part... but Nadine's bird calls luckily caused a great distraction."

I nodded to Nadine as Nadine started doing an imitation of some type of bird. I peeked out the window, then carefully hid under as Phoebe went to look out the window for a moment... then decided to go out of her room. I nodded as I took my opportunity to strike as I quickly opened the window, jumped inside and nab the book as I pulled out a black pen.

"By getting you out of the room, I was left more room to get into your room and get your book so that I can write the rule down REALLY quickly and convincingly, put it back, then rush back out before you came back in."

I quickly finished writing the rule down and put the book back on the pile as I heard the door handle turn. Quietly like a mouse, I slipped back out and closed the window, hiding JUST as Phoebe went back in, just scratching her head in confusion. I peeked. She shrugged as she pulled out her math homework, about ready to begin on it.

I gave a thumbs-up to Nadine as I climbed down, who gave one back to me. We put the ladder back and quickly decided to go back home, knowing what results would await tomorrow!

"So you see, we set you up to be fired." I smirked.

Phoebe looked at both of us in shock, then frowned. "Let me get this straight. You BROKE into my house and wrote in the rule book, making that rule authentic, to get me fired!"

Me and Nadine looked at each other nervously as Nadine said, "Well, when you put it like that..."

"And you did it without my help or advice?" She said, smiling. "I'm proud of you guys."

"You are?" I said in confusion.

"Yep. You managed to trick me out of a job I never liked in the first place... all because you wanted your friend back." Phoebe smiled as she hugged both of us. "Good work!"

"What?" Nadine said in a deadpan voice.

"Well, yeah. I hated the job. It was too much responsibility. I was acting like someone I wasn't... someone like Harold." Phoebe shuddered.

"Congratulations, you caught on." I said.

"Well, I think it was better I got fired from this job..." Phoebe said. "I mean, me as hall monitor? You were right Rhonda, I do look adorable in that outfit."

"That's what I've been saying!" I smiled.

"Well, I'm glad we worked something out." Nadine said. "Come on, let's enjoy the rest of our day..."

Before we could get back to class...

"You guys STILL have your detentions though. Just because I'm no longer Hall Monitor DOESN'T mean you're off the hook. Principal Wartz said I can only be Hall Monitor for the detention for you two and the other students at the end of the day, but other than that, that's it." Phoebe said.

"...Crud." Me and Nadine groaned.

And there is the twenty-third episode! How do you like it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!