Paige's February Short Story

Case #14

for PAM Detective Agency

P. Elliott Ball

    “There! All finished!” said ten year old Abby. It was the day before her school’s Valentine’s Day party. She had just finished making the valentines for her fourth grade class and placed them on the dining room table. Abby just knew everyone was going to LOVE them!

     Before school the very next morning as Abby was getting ready for her school party, she couldn’t find her valentines anywhere. Suddenly she remembered she accidently forgot to pick them up last night. She went downstairs to look for them but still couldn’t find them. So she called her BFF’s, Paige, Anna, and Madison, which were part of the PAM detective Agency, and told them what happened. The girls all hastily agreed they would be right over.

              When the girls got to Abby’s, Madison asked for the whole story. Abby spilled out the long but confusing tale. After hearing the whole story the girls decided to look around Abby’s house for clues. But, they all came out disappointed. Suddenly, late as usual, Abby’s mom came rushing out of the house. “Love you sweetie! I’ll see you when I get home!” she shouted over her shoulder as she jumped into her car and zoomed down the road to work.

 Rather discouraged, Anna sighed, “I don’t think we’re ever going to solve            this mystery.”

 “We WILL find the valentines for you, Abby!” Madison encouraged enthusiastically.

            About thirty minutes later, the girls who had probably looked in every thinkable spot, heard Abby’s cell phone ringing. Abby picked up her pink, sparkly phone and answered, “Hello?”  Then the person on the other end spoke in a rushed tone and said, “Hi Sweetie! This is mom. I have some bad news for you. I have your valentines. This morning when I was rushing out of the door to go to work, I slipped my Kindle off the dining Room table and stuffed it in my purse. I must have grabbed your valentines at the same time.”  “Wow, Mom! You are a great detective!” exclaimed Abby. “Thank you!”

 All three girls piled on Paige’s motor scooter and traveled to Abby’s mom’s work. Later when they had the valentines, Abby happily passed them around to her classmates. Paige laughed, “So, I guess we DID solve the mystery of the missing valentines!”