Elizabeth Wrobel

     "Go inside and get your sister," Mom said. She stopped the car right in front of the door.    
     I groaned. I was already late for soccer practice as it was. I didn't know why we had to pick up my sister, Carly, from school. If she was in the bathroom, I would probably miss practice completely. I pushed open the double doors of Carly's school. She was standing the hallway screaming.     
     "It's gone! It can't be gone!" She frantically looked through her purse. "Oh, where is it?"     
     "What's gone?" I asked her.     
     "My CD, I have a solo in the play. Without the CD I can't practice, and if I can't practice, they'll kick me out of the play." 
     "Okay, relax," I said, pulling my double brimmed Sherlock Holmes like cap out of my back pocket. I unfolded it and put it on my head. Soccer practice was forgotten. I had a case to solve. I pulled a notebook and pencil out of my shirt pocket. I was ready to write down any information I needed. "Where was the last place you're sure you had the CD?"      
     "The gym."      
     "Then let's go to the gym!" I pointed my arm dramatically in that direction.      
     "I'm not going anywhere with you while you're wearing that stupid hat, Shrimp!" she told me.      
     That hurt. I was very sensitive about my height, and she knew it. Carly was twelve, and I was ten. I'm also half her height. When she refers to me as her little brother, she's not kidding.      
     "Fine." I gave in. I took off the hat. I folded it up, and returned it to my back pocket.      

     "Who's that?" I asked when we got to the gym.      
     There was a blond girl, my sister's age, standing in the middle of the room unzipping her purse. A purse that was identical to my sister's. I had an idea. Before I could say anything, Carly screamed.
     "You stole my CD, Shannon!"      
     "Wh-what are you talking about?" Shannon stuttered, her face turning bright red.      
     "You're my understudy," said Carly. "If I give a rotten performance at rehearsal, you'll get my part!"    
      "I...I," Shannon said. Her hands were shaking so much she dropped her purse and Carly's CD fell out.           Carly bent over to pick up the CD.      
     "Arrest her, you little Sherlock wanna be!" Carly ordered.      
     "I've never stolen anything in my life," Shannon cried. "I don't know how the CD got in there."      
     "I think I do," I said, picking Shannon's purse up off the floor. I looked inside. Just as I suspected. The purses were identical except Mom had sewn Carly's name inside. The thread inside Shannon's purse spelled out Carly Thompson.      
     "What do you mean innocent?" Carly asked. "How else could the CD have gotten in her purse?"      
     "You put it there," I said.      
     "How many times do you use your head to hit the soccer ball?" she asked. "I think your brain is warped."      
     I shook my head. "Do you want to know what happened to your CD or not? Look in your purse for your name."      
     Carly opened her purse and gasped. "There's no thread! Shannon Porter is written in magic marker!"      
     "Exactly, when you left, you took Shannon's purse by mistake," I explained. "That's why you thought your CD was missing."     
     "You're a pretty good detective." Shannon smiled.     
     "Of course!" Carly beamed. "He's my brother!"

~©Elizabeth Wrobel~

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