Taffy Sinclair 009 - The Truth About Taffy Sinclair by Betsy Haynes Page B
Authors: Betsy Haynes
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on. It wasn ' t end of the year hysteria, after all. Nobody had their own things! Somebody must have sneaked in after the locks were turned in to Miss Wiggins and switched everything around. And in the center of the hall Keith Masterson, Richie Corrierro, and Joel Murphy were doubled over with fits of laughter.
" OH, NO! " I shrieked as I remembered what I had left in my locker the day before. " Who has it? " I cried, but nobody could hear me over the noise. I stomped up the hall, jerking my head first to the right and then to the left. I had to find it. I had to get it back if it was the last thing I ever did.
Suddenly I saw something straight ahead of me that made my heart stop, and then the rest of me stopped, too. Jana Morgan and her friends were standing in a tight little cluster looking at something that Jana was holding in her hand. They were giggling and talking excitedly. I couldn ' t see what it was that Jana had because the others were standing too close to her for me to get a good view. But I knew. I knew without looking. They had found the last thing in the world I wanted them to see — my secret, personal diary.
CHAPTER TWO
M iss Wiggins came steaming up the hall like a battleship with her red corkscrew curls sticking out in all directions like warning flags.
" What is going on here? " she demanded as she came to a halt. " Kim Baxter has just informed me that someone has invaded the lockers and switched all the contents around. "
Keith, Joel, and Richie magically faded from the center of the hallway. Seconds later their faces, looking properly solemn and concerned, reappeared between the heads of other sixth-graders.
" That ' s right, Miss Wiggins, " Joel said with amazing innocence. " Things are a real mess. "
" You can say that again, " shouted Katie Shannon. " Nobody has any business getting into our lockers and mes sing with our private property. "
" Somebody took my new pink sweater, " complained Lisa Snow. " I just go t it for my birthday last week. "
" My Billy Joel poster is gone, too, " added Kim Baxter. " I ' ll die if anything happens to it. "
All through the hall kids were grumbling about things that were missing from their lockers. I thought about going straight to Miss Wiggins and telling her about my diary and about Jana and her friends having it. It would serve them right to get in trouble for not giving it back immediately! Even though my name wasn ' t on it, I could identify it easily. The cover was softly padded with fabric that was the same shade of blue as my eyes, and there was a strap made out of the blue fabric that reached around from the back cover and slipped into the lock on the front.
Still, I thought, there ' s a million-to-one chance that what they were looking at wasn't my diary. In that case, someone else might have it and not realize what they had. It was locked, of course, and I had the key in my purse. And it didn ' t have my name on the outside. But at the same time, it was pretty obvious that it was a diary, and a lot of kids would give nearly anything to get their hands on it if they knew it was mine. Besides that, there were things written in it that no one on the face of this earth should ever see, I thought with a shiver. I didn ' t dare call attention to the fact that my diary was missing. Whoever had it would be certain to break it open and read it.
" I want to know this instant who is responsible, " said Miss Wiggins.
Nearly twenty pairs of eyes zeroed in on Keith and Joel and Richie.
" We didn ' t do it, " insisted Keith, throwing up his arms in a giant shrug.
" Who are you trying to kid, Masterson? " said Katie Shannon. She took a menacing step toward the boys. " You guys were really breaking up when the rest of us opened our lockers and saw what had happened. "
" So? " said Richie, thrusting his face forward so that his nose almost touched Katie ' s. " Since when is it a crime to laugh? We got here first, that ' s all. "
" Yeah, " said Joel. " You
" OH, NO! " I shrieked as I remembered what I had left in my locker the day before. " Who has it? " I cried, but nobody could hear me over the noise. I stomped up the hall, jerking my head first to the right and then to the left. I had to find it. I had to get it back if it was the last thing I ever did.
Suddenly I saw something straight ahead of me that made my heart stop, and then the rest of me stopped, too. Jana Morgan and her friends were standing in a tight little cluster looking at something that Jana was holding in her hand. They were giggling and talking excitedly. I couldn ' t see what it was that Jana had because the others were standing too close to her for me to get a good view. But I knew. I knew without looking. They had found the last thing in the world I wanted them to see — my secret, personal diary.
CHAPTER TWO
M iss Wiggins came steaming up the hall like a battleship with her red corkscrew curls sticking out in all directions like warning flags.
" What is going on here? " she demanded as she came to a halt. " Kim Baxter has just informed me that someone has invaded the lockers and switched all the contents around. "
Keith, Joel, and Richie magically faded from the center of the hallway. Seconds later their faces, looking properly solemn and concerned, reappeared between the heads of other sixth-graders.
" That ' s right, Miss Wiggins, " Joel said with amazing innocence. " Things are a real mess. "
" You can say that again, " shouted Katie Shannon. " Nobody has any business getting into our lockers and mes sing with our private property. "
" Somebody took my new pink sweater, " complained Lisa Snow. " I just go t it for my birthday last week. "
" My Billy Joel poster is gone, too, " added Kim Baxter. " I ' ll die if anything happens to it. "
All through the hall kids were grumbling about things that were missing from their lockers. I thought about going straight to Miss Wiggins and telling her about my diary and about Jana and her friends having it. It would serve them right to get in trouble for not giving it back immediately! Even though my name wasn ' t on it, I could identify it easily. The cover was softly padded with fabric that was the same shade of blue as my eyes, and there was a strap made out of the blue fabric that reached around from the back cover and slipped into the lock on the front.
Still, I thought, there ' s a million-to-one chance that what they were looking at wasn't my diary. In that case, someone else might have it and not realize what they had. It was locked, of course, and I had the key in my purse. And it didn ' t have my name on the outside. But at the same time, it was pretty obvious that it was a diary, and a lot of kids would give nearly anything to get their hands on it if they knew it was mine. Besides that, there were things written in it that no one on the face of this earth should ever see, I thought with a shiver. I didn ' t dare call attention to the fact that my diary was missing. Whoever had it would be certain to break it open and read it.
" I want to know this instant who is responsible, " said Miss Wiggins.
Nearly twenty pairs of eyes zeroed in on Keith and Joel and Richie.
" We didn ' t do it, " insisted Keith, throwing up his arms in a giant shrug.
" Who are you trying to kid, Masterson? " said Katie Shannon. She took a menacing step toward the boys. " You guys were really breaking up when the rest of us opened our lockers and saw what had happened. "
" So? " said Richie, thrusting his face forward so that his nose almost touched Katie ' s. " Since when is it a crime to laugh? We got here first, that ' s all. "
" Yeah, " said Joel. " You
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