I'll just leave my notebook here to dry.

I was sitting in my office,minding my own buisn- oh,wait. I suppose you don't know me at the moment since you only just popped in. Let me introduce myself. I'm Kara Jones. Detective Kara Jones. My friends call me Kara,which is what you can call me. The girl on the previous page is one of my partners,Anna. My other partner,Carter is at a soccer game,so you probably wont be seeing him that much in this story. Back to the story!  

Me!

Carter

Anna

My team:

(I'm 11 yrs so is Carter. Anna is twelve)

Anyway,I was sitting in my office,minding my own business,when my partner Anna burst into the room. She hurriedly searched all the desk drawers,ripping apart my neatly organized desktop drawers. I immediately stood up and rushed over to her , hoping to prevent her from ripping anymore of  my (as I said before) well organized desk drawers. "Are you okay?" I asked her. She stopped. "Oh Kara,it's horrible!" Now I was confused. "What is?" I asked. "You know how I wrote down all of our top secret detective stuff in that brown notebook?" "Uh,huh." I replied. "It's been stolen!"

"WHAT!!" I yelled. "That notebook had top secret info in it! Are you sure that you didn't just lose it?" "Positive!" Anna replied. I was lost for words. "Well,"I said ,regaining my posture. "Well then we have to find it."

Apparently,Carters soccer game was canceled because their was a hurricane coming and everyone had to stay inside. He was very annoyed about it and he made sure we knew it by stomping around yelling. When he finally calmed down,we told him what had happened and we hopped to it. Oh,and Carter put actual clothing on since only had his soccer stuff on. 

I started to ask some questions. "Where was the last place you saw it?"  It was on that table. You know, the one we always interrogate people on." I was starting to get frustrated,when Carter said something that made complete sense. "Well obviously,someone stole it. Think about it." I did think about it. Anna snapped her fingers. We just had that party! Anyone there could have just snatched it up!"

I thought back to yesterday 

My mind worked quickly. Yesterday we had had a party to celebrate Anna's birthday. I had invited three people. Kim,Conner,and Ryan. All of them had access to the journal! "We need to interrogate everyone who was at the party yesterday!" Carter suddenly reminded me that my two older brothers,who had busted the party to annoy me,also had access to the notebooks. I groaned Kyle(13) and Mason(16) are so annoying! My little sister Mila was also a pain. But not as much. My twin,Zack,was the real pain. He always begs me to let him into the gang. As if!

The first place we went to was Conner's house for more info. As Anna knocked on the door,my mind was in another place. The door opened and Conner's older sister,Mya opened the door. "Looking for Conner? He's at the park." Then she shut the door with a bang. "Wow," grumbled Carter."real helpful"

As soon as we got to the park,we immediately saw Conner chatting with a tall boy,who happened to be my brother,Kyle. My mouth dropped open. I was about to yell,but Anna covered my mouth. I watched the friendly little exchange happening in front of my very eyes. I won't lie,I was furious. Kyle has been trying to get me to let him into my gang.

As soon as Kyle left,Conner,shifted something around that was in his pocket. That was the final straw. I stormed out from our hiding place and before Conner even had time to say anything,I had reached into his pockets and pulled out... PICTURES!? Anna and Carter looked over my shoulder as I fingered through the pictures. They were all from Anna's party yesterday. "Where did you get these?" I asked in a sorry attempt for everything out of his pockets without asking. Conner looked at me in disgust then sighed. "I got them from Kyle. He took them yesterday at the party."   

I dropped the pictures. Conner continued. "He told me to give them to you." Now I was annoyed again. "He could have given them to me himself! Never mind." I pocketed the pictures. Did you steal Anna's notebook?" "NO! What use would I have for that!? I hate all things to to with reading!" This was true. I had seen it firsthand. "Anna,cross him off the suspects list."

"Oh no,do NOT get me involved in your detective games. All three of us had the decency to look annoyed. Then Conner ran off leaving us with a dead end. "Well," said Carter. "That was a bust." I was silent. Then it hit me. "Maybe it wasn't a complete bust! Carter give me the pictures!" I thumbed through them,one at a time,until I found the one I was looking for. This one had a clock in the back of the picture. I whipped out my magnifying glass. "The clock in this picture says  says 2:00 pm. The notebook is still there. This one says 3:00 pm. The notebook's not there. Anna shivered. "Ooh,I'm getting goosebumps!"