Justin and Alex unlike their head-over-heels twin sister, loved to solve mysteries. This time some no-brainer stole the teacher’s brand-new expensive glasses. This made the teacher, Mrs. Williams infuriated. She wouldn’t let the entire 5th grade class go outside for recess until the crook confesses that he took the brand- new glasses. So now everyone is gossiping about who might have stole the glasses. Justin loved recess, and would do anything to get it back. So he sets out on a mission to find the 5th grade crook.
Justin has two suspects in his mind. The first one is Mark Sullivan. He is always getting into trouble just for fun. The second suspect is Cooper Allen. That little boy has been silent all week, which means he might have a guilty conscience of what he did.
The next day, Justin was tired of staying in for recess, and ready to figure out who the culprit is. First he will figure out if it’s Cooper. So that morning, Justin and Alex went up to Cooper, and started questioning him. Cooper looked very somber, so Justin asked what was wrong. Cooper replied with a grieving look on his face “ My dad died last week on a boat.”
Justin felt bad for him, and realized that the reason why he’s been so quiet after all. So, he whispered to Alex his thoughts, and they decided to get off Cooper’s back, and waited until lunch to confront Mark. So the two of them quickly slipped away from Cooper then and waited for lunch.
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During lunch, Mark wasn’t hard to find. He was loud, obnoxious, and huge. When Justin found Mark, he was very impatient. Mark was constantly ignoring him, and kept playing cards with his friends. Justin and Alex were going to talk to him one way or another.
Justin was right about to pull Mark out of the game, when his head-over-heels twin sister Katie dragged him into the hallway and secretly looked around whispered to Justin “I need to borrow your notes for math. I have a test today, and I totally forgot to study! Please.” Katie had that puppy-dog eyes that nobody could turn down, so Justin ran inside the classroom, and gave Katie his notebook.
Now that the problem was fixed, he rushed back to Mark, but it was too late. Lunch was over, so everyone in Mrs. Williams class had to go back to class. In the meantime, the rest of the grade went out to recess. In class, no one was aloud to talk because it was reading. That means that Justin had to wait an hour until he could talk to Mark. So Justin waited and waited...
After an hour, the class had a 5-minute break to prepare for the math test. Mark went directly to Justin and Alex and spoke really loudly “What do you want? You have been following me around all day. “Let’s just get it over with.” Justin was finally going to be able to confront Mark.
Justin started asking Mark awkward questions, like “Do you take ballet?” or “Exactly where were you on March 17 at 3:23?” But after a great deal of questions, while Alex was listening, he figured that Mark also loved recess, and couldn’t go a day without it. So he would have turned the glasses in a long time ago.
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Which means that it’s not Mark who stole the glasses. Alex whispered this into Justin’s ear, and Justin agreed. So Justin told Mark that the 5-minute break was over, as an excuse, and left. By the end of the day, Justin and Alex were stumped. Who could’ve stolen the teacher’s glasses?
On Monday, Justin noticed that Naomi Scott was wearing some brand-new glasses, which looked exactly like Mrs. Williams’ glasses. Justin was really suspicious, so he snuck up to Naomi, and then poked her on the shoulder. Justin made a very stern face at Naomi, and looked at her glasses. She was trying to look innocent, but Justin knew that Naomi was the culprit. He solved the mystery! Justin couldn’t wait to tell Alex.
Alex was very surprised. He would never have guessed that Naomi was the one who stole the glasses. She’s like the teacher’s pet. Naomi went up to the teacher after Justin left her, and told her she took the glasses, and why.
Right before recess, Mrs. Williams announced that Naomi took the glasses, but gave them back to her. So now everyone could go the recess! Everyone in class started smiling, and whispering excitedly. Even Justin wanted to cheer. But he felt bad for Naomi.
Justin found Naomi outside at recess alone. They talked, and got into the topic of the glasses. Naomi said,” My own glasses broke, and my mom bought new ones, but they don’t arrive until April. So I used Mrs. Williams’ glasses for awhile.” Justin
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and Naomi kept talking until recess was over. Now, everyday Naomi and Justin talk during recess and are good friends.