The next day, the gang and I had finished eating breakfast and met up with the girls we were supposed to help solve the fire cemetery mystery. In all the past mysteries the gang and I have solved, we have never solved or worked on a mystery like this one before so it should be an interesting mystery to solve.
We met the girls outside the hotel the gang and I were staying while in Stoneybrook to help solve the fire mystery. One of the girls looked worried to us.
"Is Mary Anne okay?" Shaggy whispered.
"I don't think so, Shag. My guess is that the fire is on her mind," Velma said.
"Well, gang, there's only one thing to do," Freddy said.
I noticed the look on Shaggy and Scooby's faces.
"There you go again, Fred. This time me and Scooby aren't playing bait," Shaggy said.
"You guys aren't bait right now. All I want us to do is talk to Mary Anne," Freddy said.
The three of us heard Shaggy sigh of relief.
"That was close, Scoob," Shaggy said as Scooby nodded in agreement.
The five of us walked up to the girls. Before we talked to the girls, we introduced ourselves first.
"Should we talk?" Freddy suggested to the girls.
"Sure. What's the talk about?" Stacey asked.
"The fire, of course," Fred said.
Velma and I watched Mary Anne try escaping from us.
"Stay here, Mary Anne. They might want to ask all of us questions about this," Kristy said.
"Well, I sure don't want to chat about it. The hard part is that Kayla was my best friend," Mary Anne said, trying not to cry in front of us.
We watched as the girls patted her on the shoulder.
"The faster we get through the questions, the faster we get working on this," Freddy told Mary Anne as the rest of us nodded.
"Here's the first question: What were you doing after the cemetery began to flame?" Fred asked.
"I was with Stacey in her apartment in New York City. Later, it became the top story on the news. I did watch the news for a while, then it made me sick to my stomach watching the news," Mary Anne answered.
"What were you doing before the cemetery went on fire?" Fred asked.
"I was only visiting Kayla who had died from leukemia. April came down with me," said Mary Anne.
I was starting to feel sorry for this girl. Velma was looking at me and I could tell she was reading my mind and agreed with me. We spent the rest of the morning and we all decided to get to work on the case.