AN: I do realize that virtually nothing happens in this one. I also realize that there hasn't been chocolate in awhile. I do apologize for both.


Later when Nancy was ready for bed she decided that it was overall a productive day. Yes, she had found several new clues, and yes, she did have more unanswered questions. But she had also accepted her budding feelings for Scott as well as decided that she could trust him.

She felt like she was closing in on the culprit, slowly but surely. It had been two weeks since she joined the team, and the end of the competition was still a few days away. In the morning she would move into phase three of her 'nab the crook' plan.