A/N: I think the toughest part about writing Sammy Keyes fiction is the tenses. In the stories it switches from past to present, and it is tough to do that in a story! I hope I'm doing an okay job on it, though.
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Chapter 4
Other than the Giant Bee's strange mini-interrogation, the rest of the day went fine. After school Marissa and I decided to walk with Holly to the Pup Parlor, to say hello to Meg and Vera.
Just as we are headed down the street, chatting about the school day, new teachers, homework and things like that, who do we see coming out of the Parlor?
The Giant Bee herself. She's clutching this tiny poodle to her chest, and looking around her as if she's afraid someone is watching. I slow way down, because not only do I not want to be forced into an oh-so-polite conversation, I don't really want to be forced to stare at her outfit again.
So I duck down and pretend to be tying my shoe, while Marissa and Holly make small talk, but Bee doesn't even seem to notice us as she walks by. I jump up the minute she's gone, looking over my shoulder as she hurries down the sidewalk. Now, I probably should have just let it go, but I was too curious. She wasn't acting like it was her dog, and I was already wondering a billion things about our new, weird English teacher.
I turn to my friends to ask if they wanted to tag along, but they had already read my mind. "I gotta work," Holly said, waving a quick goodbye and ducking into the Pup Parlor. I turn to Marissa, not really expecting her to want to come along either. I was right.
"I have to get home. See you tomorrow."
So I'm on my own, hunting down the Bee. So I start following her, carrying my skateboard under one arm. And even though she was walking pretty fast, pretty soon I'm about 15 feet behind her. And after a while, I realize she has simply gone in a circle, because she's walking out of the neighborhood she just walked into, without stopping anywhere. I follow her a little while longer, and then we're back into the main part of town, and she's hustling over to the Heavenly.
Now, that pretty much stops me in my tracks. Why on earth would she need to go to the Heavenly? I immediately threw out the idea that she was living there; she had to be visiting someone. And then my imagination comes up with all sorts of ridiculous possibilities. Like, she's a criminal. She broke out of jail, came here, and landed a teaching job. Though, if you were trying to hide from the law, wouldn't you want to go to a big city? Why come to a small place like Santa Martina?
But I'm still curious as anything, so I run over to the door of the Heavenly just as she's getting into the elevator. My eyes shoot up to the little counter above the elevator entrance, where it shows what floor the elevator is going to. It stops on 2.
My mind is still buzzing with ideas about why Mrs Martin would be going there; who she's going to see, and so on. I didn't exactly want to go in and have to explain the whole thing to Andre just to get the number of the room she's visiting, so I decide to sneak around the back.
I climb a fence, ditch my stuff, and yank open the door with Employees Only written on it. At first I just peek my head in, to see if anyone is there. Since no one is, I walk through, scope out the stairway, and make my way up.
At least this is not a puky stairway, like the other one. I shook my head at the thought of the main staircase. What sort of drugs had that designer been taking? Eventually I come to a door with a big 2 on it. I pull it open and duck into the hallway.
And I'm lucky there's a trash can at the end of the hallway for me to hide behind, because who do I see stepping out of a room?
Mrs Martin. Only she doesn't have the full bee outfit on anymore. She's pulled on a black jacket, and a hat with feathers on it, and she's whispering to somebody.
She reaches up a hand and touches somebody's face, I'm guessing, then whispers something and leaves.
As soon as she is safely in the elevator, I sneak up to the door she had been at. Room 214...
Now, something about her was off, I knew that. She was weird, obviously, but something was wrong. She was trying to cover something up. Where had the dog gone? She hadn't been holding it when she left.
So I start back down the stairway, grab my stuff, and head home. And my brain is ticking away, trying to figure out what is so weird about this teacher, who she was visiting, what the deal with the dog was...
As I'm climbing the fire escape something in my brain seems to click, but the moment it clicks, it vanishes. The thought was there, floating on the edge of my mind, but every time I tried to grab hold of it, away it flew. I stuck the key in the door, opened it, and found, sitting on my couch, the last person I wanted to see.
A/N: I'm not feeling like I did this chapter very well... but I can't think of anything more to add, and I can't seem to find EXACTLY what needs fixing. So, I don't think this is the best chapter, but hopefully the next one will be better.