I joined the group to where Velma was. It looked like I missed on something good when Shaggy, Daphne, and I were out, trying to find more clues around the cemetery. I spoke up first.
"Did we miss out on anything after we split up?" I asked.
"Yes, you did, Fred. We just solved the mystery," Jessi answered.
"You should have wait so I wouldn't miss out," I told everyone.
It looked like Shaggy wasn't paying much attention. He wanted to think this creepy mystery would still be in progress. Shaggy was wrong.
"Okay, tell us. Velma, what happened to you?" Daphne asked.
Shaggy was still quiet, so he let Daphne ask that question, even though he was thinking the same thing.
"We found out who did this. Actually, Mary Anne and I solved it, didn't we?" Velma asked.
Mary Anne nodded, and then said, "Of course we did, Velma. Fred, I knew the suspect who did this because she's a classmate of ours."
"That's interesting. Tell us the name of this girl," Shaggy replied.
Now he was starting to show some interest, so he took the words out of my mouth.
"I was going to ask that," I told him.
"I'll let you do that next time," Shaggy replied.
"Done deal," I agreed.
Daphne didn't feel like asking anymore questions at the moment, so she let Shaggy and I ask the questions.
"Tell Fred the name of our classmate who did this," Daphne said.
"Cokie Mason," answered Claudia.
"Who the heck is she?" Daphne asked.
Now she's getting somewhere, I told myself.
"She is immature for her age and gets into lots of trouble," Stacey answered.
"Oh," was all Shaggy said.
"Plus, she was smoking and Velma was coughing for a while. Are you okay?" Mary Anne asked.
"Of course I am. Don't worry about me so much," Velma answered.
"I just don't want anything happen to you," Mary Anne said.
"And nothing bad happened, Mary Anne. Take that off your mind and don't think about it anymore," Velma told her.
"Velma's right," Dawn agreed.
"I'll try my best," Mary Anne told us.
"Good," Kristy said.
We all noticed Mallory still hadn't said a word. She didn't have to, I thought to myself.
"Then what happened to this Cokie girl?" Daphne asked.
That was also another question I wanted to ask. You lose again, Fred, I told myself again.
Boy, I've been talking to myself a lot since Daphne, Shaggy and I came back to join everyone. Now this is getting old fast.
"Mary Anne made a phone call to Mrs. Mason so she would hear about the latest on her daughter," Mallory answered.
It was her turn to speak up. Like Mallory, Kristy also hadn't said much at all during this solved mystery.
"And the police also didn't know who Cokie is, but we let one of the officers make the phone call to our school," Mary Anne added.
"Let alone spending sometime being grounded," Kristy said.
"That's no fun. I have been grounded as a kid," I said, and then asked, "where is Cokie now?"
"The police took her in for a while before her mother came to pick her up. Now she and her mother left about twenty minutes before you came back," Dawn told me.
"Besides, there is one other thing that's worth sharing," Claudia replied.
"What's that?" asked Shaggy.
"The principal suspended her along with her friends. They paid Cokie to do this as a dare or truth, and she went for it," Mallory said.
"Wow. Is that all to this mystery or that's it?" I asked.
"That's it. Looks like you've never solved a mystery like this recently," Jessi told us.
We all shook our heads.
"I know one thing," Daphne said.
"What's that?" Dawn asked.
"There'll be more adventures to come in the future," Daphne answered as the three of us agreed with her. Next time, I'll do my best not to miss out on solving any mystery. I do feel guilty.