The Mystery of the Missing Credit Card

By: Kabir Kapadia

 

It was recess at Chadwick school, and you could hear kids screaming and having fun. Over at the swings, Christian heard the bell ring as he was watching Rhys about to jump off his swing. Rhys shouted, “Three, two, one!” Christian saw Rhys flying through the air. As he landed, a green card fell out of his pocket, Rhys quickly picked it up. Christian only got a quick look, he was almost sure it was a special green addition Pokémon card. Christian was running as fast as he could, and made it second in line behind Jordan. Jordan turned to Christian and said, “Did you hear about Alex’s mom’s credit card getting stolen?”

“No, really, when?” said Christian.

 “Yesterday.” Christian planned to ask Alex all about it.

Later that day, when it was dismissal, Christian waited with Alex until his mom showed up in the carpool lane. Alex’s mom opened the window and said, “Hey kids, get in.” The doors opened and they jumped in. Christian and Alex put their seat belts on and Christian said, “Tell me about yesterday.”

 Alex said, “Okay, well I had a play date with Rhys. We got dropped off, but the door was locked. Rhys went to check the backdoor and was gone for a long time. Then he came back and told me the back door was locked. My mom came back and opened the door for us. I asked Rhys what he wanted to do, then we finally decided to play ‘Bop-It. ’We played for a while, then Rhys’s mom came to pick him up because he had a tennis lesson, so I said bye. “Alex’s mom turned to the boys and said, “We are home.” We went in the game room and rushed in to play Sky- Landers. I picked my character and Alex chose Rocket-Feet. “While the game is loading,” said Christian, “I have to go to the bathroom.”

Christian went outside to the outhouse, and on his way he looked to the window and saw tennis-shoe prints. Christian got an idea, and then went in to ask Alex what color card got stolen? Alex said, “A green card, why?”

“Because I think I know who stole your mom’s credit card.”

“Really, who?”

“Follow me.” The two boys went to Rhys’ house and knocked on the door. When Rhys answered, Christian asked him to step out-side.

“Yesterday morning Rhys dropped a green card, I wasn't sure what it was, but after seeing the tennis shoe prints outside the window, and seeing the green card at the swings, my logic leads me to think that the thief is Rhys!”

“Oh really!?” replies Rhys.

“Yes, you are the card thief” Then Alex and Christian tied up Rhys and forced him to give it back. The two boys then gave the card to Alex’s mom.

 Alex’s mom said, “Thank you so much, you guys are the best! Now, let’s go get the money back from Rhys.”