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are my best friends as far as girls go. Why don’t you help me find
out who she is?”
Sarah’s countenance brightened at his words, and the two
girls agreed to join in the sleuthing to learn more about the
mysterious girl. They spent much of the morning asking all their
friends and fellow students. When the three met as agreed upon at
lunch, none of them had anything to share. No one seemed to know
anyone by that name.
As they tried to figure out how she could be unknown to
everyone they had talked to, Sarah had an idea. “If no one knows
her, that would mean she is new here.”
“Then how do we find her?” Tyson asked.
They all thought for a time, and then Elli said, “I’ve got an
idea. The secretaries would know her, especially if she is new.”
They agreed that if she was new, they could ask the
secretaries about her, and it wouldn’t look stalkerish. So as soon as
they finished lunch, they went to the office. But to their dismay, the
secretaries had not heard of her, nor was she listed in the computer.
Through the afternoon, they continued to ask their teachers
and other students. Still, the mystery remained unsolved by the time
they met after school.
“This is beginning to freak me out,” Tyson said. “I have
some ghost girl who gave me a card.”
He sighed. “Well, I better go before Taylor and Natalie leave
me.”
“Wait a minute,” Elli said. “What did you just say?”
“I said I better get to the car before my sisters leave me, and I
have to walk.”
“Reverse their names,” Elli said.
Tyson laughed. “You mean like Natalie and Taylor?”
Suddenly, Tyson and Sarah realized what Elli was saying.
They rushed to Tyson’s locker, pulled out the card, and read it. It
said, “Have a great day, Natalie and Taylor.”
“Well, in my defense,” Tyson said, “the d doesn’t have much
of a stem and looks like an n.”
When I arrived to pick Elli up from school, I saw Tyson and
Sarah leaving. “Did your friends need a ride?” I asked.

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