Chapter 6

I couldn't sleep for a long time because we or maybe just me , heard the muffled voice again . Here's the story. After everyone was asleep I heard the voice again and it sounded very close . I heard it again so I went to the window to see if everything was okay. right when my eyes adjusted to the darkness I saw a figure dart across the lawn and into the street. Mary was right I thought it was just a kid running about our yard , a really tall kid . but just in that moment I heard a door quietly close , it sounded like the front door.  That's strange I thought , but I didn't think to much of it until I turned around and saw that my diamond necklace was missing, but then again , I could have misplaced it , I will look for it in the morning,I thought to myself.
     "Julia, Julia, um your diamond necklace is missing, I looked everywhere for it but I - "
    " What ? listen I saw this weird thing last night!" I said as I started to open my eyes.
  I told them what I saw Casey looked very interested which I found a little strange .
     " I'm guessing that the voices were used as a diversion so someone could sneak in and steal things, is anything else missing ?
    " now that you mention it my watch is missing but I could have misplaced it." I said doubting that I did misplace it.
   " maybe we should see if we can see anyone at school wearing your necklace and if we don't than we can file a report in the newspaper or something." said Mary.
  " I don't think we should put it in the newspaper , lot's of people would like to have a diamond necklace , did you see all those poor people on the bus?" I asked.
   " Right , sorry"
  " It's okay."
  "Hey guys , we should probably get going to that meeting pretty soon?" asked Casey.
  " Oh you're right , okay , I am going to go get dressed ."Casey? Are those you're clothes or your pj's?" I asked seriously thinking that they were her pj's because she looked a circus clown. She looked hurt so they were probably her clothes.
   " NO, these are my clothes, do they look bad? "
   " No , they're great!" I lied I didn't want to hurt her more than I already did. Mary was cracking up which didn't help much .
   " Casey , would you like to borrow some of my clothes? You might fit in better at the school." I said
   " Ok sure,thanks !"exclaimed Casey.
  Pretty soon Casey looked like a normal New Yorker so we were ready to head to the meeting. Mom let me borrow her car since we were running a little late. I was driving.  At the school conference thing , we were given a tour of the school, we were handed our school schedules and were shown where our class rooms would be. Casey , Mary, and I all had the same schedules because we were all seniors , unfortunately we ran into Emily Grant.
    " Oh , you again , do you have your schedules? "  she looked at our schedules and then said a word that I can't repeat." dang it we are going to have to spend the whole day together !" she said sounding very frustrated. That's when she looked up and I saw that she was wearing a diamond neclace   , it was exactly the same as mine!I saw that Mary saw it too.
     "Emily ? where did you get that necklace? " I asked trying to sound as calm as possible but it was really hard because anger was building up inside of me.
     " Oh, you know......... the jewelry store ." she said nervously her hand jumping to the necklace.           " Really ? Are you sure you didn't steal it ?" I asked still trying to sound calm.
   "  What? I hear my Mommy calling I better go , Bye." she said as she ran away down the hall. I decided I was going to ask her more questions later.  Pretty soon we were at home again . We said hi to mom  .   She told us that dad had gone back to New York    because all the kids were getting out of hand so he will stay there with them, now it's just me , Mary, and Rachel. She asked where Casey was and it was then that I realized she wasn't  behind us anymore.
    " I guess she went back home Mom."I said. " If you need us we are going to be upstairs so we can rest okay?" I said.  When we were upstairs we started talking again.
     " Well at least now we have Casey working on the mystery also we might get it solved a little bit sooner now."said Mary.
     "  Yeah I suppose , but she's kind of a mystery herself."