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Chapter 1

 “Ahhhhh!” Is the ear piercing loud scream 

we heard from the shed. After that Talia, 

Jonah, and I were spooked.

   Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you the begging. 

It all started with a jar of chocolate chip 

cookies.

   “Lily, I would like some cookies please.” 

Said Jonah in the most precious little voice 

ever. 

“Yes, sure Jonah I’ll get you some” I said

   As I walked down the steps braiding my hair I 

saw….Kari and Mandi. I knew I had to hide from 

those evil bratty step sisters of mine. I quickly 

hide under the stairs. I was thinking to myself 

why did I have to live with those brats?   Oh, now 

I have the answer it’s because of my stupid mom 

(I’m only calling her stupid one time she is really 

nice the rest of the time) she married, Ron. Ron 

Harry Krass is his full name. He and his brattish 

daughters are mean, controlling, and never stop 

caring for themselves!!!   As I see Kari and Mandi 

leave, I step out from under the stairs. Right 

when I get out from under the stairs Ron races by 

me to go

to his stupid shed. He keeps all of his carpeting 

supplies for work there. When I walk into the 

kitchen I see my mom. I’m sure my face 

sparkled once I saw her. There too was Jonah 

eating cookies. I say, 

   “Jonah? I thought you called me to get you 

cookies?” 

   Jonah says, “Well mom wanted to tell you and 

me something.”

   Mom says, “I’m..”

   “Your what mom?” I say.

   “PREGNANT!” Mom says.

Jonah and I’s jaws dropped to the floor we 

started to dance and sing with smiling faces. We 

are going to have another brother or sister!

   Once we settled down mom said, 

   “Ron doesn't  know and It’s not his kid, please 

don’t tell him, Kari, or Mandi. Okay?”

   Jonah and I both nodded and went upstairs.  

That night we were thinking how happy mom must 

be and how happy we are that it isn’t Ron’s kid. 

Mabey we’ll know tomorrow and move out of 

Alabama to California or New York somewhere 

exiting. That’s my hope and dream.                                                                                                                                         

Chapter 2

   When I woke up I went straight down stairs to see if 

mom told Ron yet. She didn’t. But Ron was in an odd 

mood. I saw him sitting on the couch. Both eyes staring 

right at me. I knew something wasn’t right. My mom 

never found this out but when mom and Ron were both 

on their honey-moon I went to the library and checked 

out Ron’s file from the internet. In the file it said he had 

killed 2 people and was sentenced to 2 years in jail. 

Serves him right. Mom and Ron loved each other like 2 

peas in a pod, like peanut butter and jelly. I wouldn’t 

have thought he would kill another person…I think.

Chapter 3     

 I was very bored the rest of the day. Kari and 

Mandi made me paint their revolting toe nails. 

Blech! The other half of my day was devoted to 

playing monopoly and eating pizza with Jonah. 

Jonah and I loved to play monopoly because our 

father used to play with us every Friday at our first 

home in Mississippi. He was Ted, Ted of Ted’s car 

shop. Jonah, my mom, and I miss him every day. 

He used to kiss my fore head whenever I felt sad 

or got hurt. Not a day goes by that I don’t think 

about him. 

After 4 hours of playing monopoly and eating pizza 

with Jonah I needed something to do! What I did 

was call my best friend Talia. She lived in 

Mississippi with me. She moved because she had a 

similar incident like me but her mother died. I 

called her up to see if she wanted to have the best 

sleepover of all time at my house. She told me she 

would love it! Jonah and I set up all the stuff Talia 

and I would want nail polish, blankets, pillows, and 

magazines. Mom and I decided to make pasta and 

a variety of desserts.   I love making sleepovers like 

birthday parties because Ron doesn’t like people in 

the house. He usually says that people have their

own house for a reason so they don’t need to 

come to ours. Ron is mean. 

   Around 6:30 P.M. is when Talia came, and that’s 

when it began.     

Chapter 4

   Talia, Jonah, and I ate a delicious dinner! After 

dinner, we all wanted to play Apples to Apples. Jonah, 

Talia, and, I   go crazy with games so we played for at 

least 3 ½ hours. We had to stop! When I was walking 

upstairs I saw mom writing a letter. Sometimes to 

show her emotions she takes it out on letters. Jonah 

went to his room to watch television and Talia and I 

were painting our toe nails while talking about boys 

in our grade. After Talia and I finished painting our 

nails we heard a thump. Jonah came running into my 

room crying he hurt his foot! Talia and I were trying 

to comfort him when, “Ahhhhhhhh!!!” Is the ear 

piercing loud scream we heard from the shed. After 

that Talia, Jonah, and I 

were spooked! We all looked at each other like we 

saw a ghost. Every night mom and  go to the shed 

and pray for ones that are hurt or that have died. 

The shed is also a place where classified information 

can be talked about. When mom lost her job Ron 

and her were in there for hours. Today, Jonah and I 

didn’t have to go because we had a guest. Tonight 

Mandi had to go to the shed because she got bad 

grades and skipped class (I over heard Ron talking.) 

Right after we heard the scream Mandi and Ron bust 

through the door like hungry animals searching for 

food. Mandi ran up to her room baling. The tears on 

that girls face was like a spring down pour. Ron 

however looked fierce like a lion. He 

screams upstairs,

“Your mother got a call from her mother and left off 

to Mississippi to care for her she’s sick!”

   Jonah and I looked at each other knowing that it 

was a lie. Mom would never leave us alone. she 

usually takes us with her not leave us behind. 

Jonah, Talia, and I   knew we had to do something. 

So we all decided to be….The Sleuthing Three!    We 

all wanted to solve this mystery so now it was a 

club! All of us had cool special sleuthing powers. 

Mine was that I can manipulate people with my 

beauty, Talia’s power was the way she could stair at 

people and know if they were lying or telling the 

truth, and Jonah’s power was that he had the 

strongest body to punch or hurt someone with. We 

were going to solve this mystery! First we had to 

sleep on it and start to sleuth in the morning. 

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