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out, shutting the door behind her.
    “You’re just mad because we fooled you,” Molly taunted Kenny. “We win!”
    “No, you don’t,” Fliss said hotly, “because we’ve got the disk back, and we haven’t paid you a penny. So there!”
    “Yeah, Fliss is right.” Kenny looked a bit brighter. “You lose!”
    Molly looked incredibly smug. “Not when we tell Tom Collins that
you
were the ones who nicked his disk!”
    “You wouldn’t!” Kenny said, dismayed.
    Molly grinned. “Watch me.”
    I stepped forward into the middle of the room. “In that case, there’s only one thing we can do, Kenny,” I said. “I think we should go downstairs right away and tell your mum exactly what’s happened.”
    This time it was Molly and Louise’s turn to look shocked.
    “Lyndz! What are you talking about?” Kenny began, but I interrupted her.
    “And then I think we should go and confess to Tom, and tell
him
exactly what happened,” I went on.
    I could see that Frankie and the others were beginning to catch on, but Kenny was still too wound up to see where I was heading.
    “I don’t get it, Lyndz,” she said crossly. “We’ll just get into a whole heap of trouble if we do that!”
    “Well, Tom might be a bit upset at first,” I admitted. “But once we explain that we took the disk for a special surprise for his birthday, I think he’ll forgive us.” I stared hard at Molly the Monster and Louise, who were beginning to look very uncomfortable. “I reckon he’ll be
much
more annoyed with the people who found the disk and didn’t give it back!”
    Kenny began to grin. “Yeah, you’re right, Lyndz!”
    “And I don’t suppose your mum and dad would be too pleased if they knew Molly hadtried to blackmail us,” I went on, playing my last and best card. “So, actually, I don’t think we’ll get into any trouble anyway. But I think Molly and Louise probably will!”
    Louise glared at Molly. “I
told
you we shouldn’t have done all that,” she squeaked. “My sister’ll go mad if she finds out I’ve been using her email address!”
    “You’re bluffing.” Molly stared straight back at me. “You wouldn’t go and tell my mum.”
    I grinned. “Watch me!”
    There was silence for a minute.
    “OK,” Molly said through gritted teeth at last. “You don’t tell Mum and Dad, and we won’t tell Tom you took his disk.”
    I looked at the others. “Deal?” I asked.
    “Deal!” said Kenny, grinning all over her face. “
Now
who loses?”
    Molly and Louise didn’t answer. Still red in the face, they flounced out of the room, and we heard them stomping off down the stairs. Then we all started laughing and doing high fives.
    “That showed
them!
” Frankie grinned.
    “It all makes sense now,” Kenny said. “Louise Ball lives right next to the park – that’s how they got back to her house so quickly to send the email. We must have just missed them. And I knew Louise had a sister who’s married – I just didn’t know her name was Katie Shaw.”
    “You were so smart, Lyndz!” Rosie said admiringly. “You really showed Molly the Monster who’s boss.”
    “Yeah, Lyndz, I didn’t know you could be so devious!” And Kenny slapped me on the back. “Oops!” she added, as the disk flew out of her hand and landed on the carpet.
    “I think I’ll look after that from now on!” I said, picking it up. “And the first thing I’m going to do is give it back to Tom. Let’s go round to my place.”
    “No, the first thing we’re going to do is copy the poster for the website,” Frankie said.
    “OK,” I agreed. “But I’m not letting this disk out of my sight, until it’s safely back with Tom!”
    *   *   *
    “It’s my disk!”
    Tom stared down at it, looking completely dazed as if he couldn’t believe his eyes. “Where did you get it?”
    “Kenny found it,” I said. “It must have fallen into her sleepover bag by accident.” That was the story we’d agreed on.
    “I’m really sorry,