Human Thomas and Friends Mysteries Book 1, Part 4

The Special Eds halls was a mess! Papers were on the floor, several lockers has been rusted off, broken wood were about everywhere, and even a lonely big sofa even have been chewed up.

"This is more worse than the vampire movie we saw last night," said Oliver nervously. "This hallway is messy!"

Edward looked down at the floor and exmanied a paper that was on the floor. It read 'Beware of the Secert Locker Room or you'll be swamped by the wizard.' Edward's eyes were huge as he read the paper.

"G-g-guys," he stammered. "I think we have an answer."

James shook his head. "No we don't, Edward. We don't have an answer yet."

Emily nodded. "What Edward is saying is that we have an answer to who the 'someone' is, not the entire mystery."

"So....... who is it?" asked Duck, his eyebrows raised.

"It's......." Edward gulped. "Rickety."

"Rickety!?" Thomas exclaimed. "That Diesel is a klutz. It couldn't possibly be him, could it?"

Edward nodded. "According to this paper, that's who Diesel was talking about earlier. So now," he conutined. "we have part of the mystery solved. But now we have bigger issues." He glanced over at the clock above the lockers. "It's almost one-o'clock! We have to get ready for math now! But how do we get out?"

Percy noticed some stairs on the right side at the end of the hallway. "Look!" he cried. "There are some stairs on the right side at the end! I bet that's where we'll get to the first locker room, let's go!"

So they ran to the end of the hallway (being careful of the wood on the floor and in the way), charged up the right side of the stairs and were realived when they found the first locker room.

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"And now class, we move the second decimal to the right, then add up the ones first and..... " Ms. Marsh, their math teacher, was in the middle of teaching when she saw the Steam Team moaning and groaned. "Excuse me, but I believe the rule is: No talking while the teacher is talking. That goes for groans too!"

"But Ms. Marsh, we - " James began, but the teacher cut him off.

"There will be no buts in the classroom, Mister Hughes. There will be plenty of moaning and groaning once this period is over." Then Ms. Marsh kept on teaching.

Edward, on the other hand, had stopping groaning and was writing a note on a blank sheet of notebook paper. He passed it to Henry, who was next to him. Henry unfolded it and shook his head.

Why? he wrote and then passed it to Edward. Edward wrote in reply: ''Because I think we have another suspect. We'll have to disscuss it by the oak tree after school. Groaning about it isn't going to help us get out of class.'' He passed it to Henry again and he wrote: Okay.

"Please do ten problems on page 101, class." Ms. Marsh said. "You must finish them by the end of this period."

"That's just great," Duck grumbled under his berth.

"What did you say, Mister. Collet B.?" Ms. Marsh asked sternly. Her bushy eyebrows raised and her blue eyes flashed.

"I didn't say a word," Duck replied. "I was just getting my math book out of my desk."

Ms. Marsh seemed more calm. "Very well then, class, as soon as you found the page, get to work!" She then returned to her desk.

The only one who is not working is Edward. He had his mind about the paper, and the pink note, and about the suspect.

"Mister Pettigrew, why aren't you working on the problems?" Ms. Marsh asked. "And what is that in your hand?"

Edward stared at the teacher and began searching for his math book. "I was just getting my notebook and this paper in my hand was just a piece of trash. I'll throw it away when this period is over."

Ms. Marsh looked safatified and Edward began working on the problems in his notebook.