The Janitor's Short Money
She was a
happy girl that did not fear expressing her feelings and thought towards other
people, but she always did in a respectful tone since she was not a girl who
enjoyed trouble. She lived in a happy big house with both her mo and her dad,
along with a big golden retriever to compliment the american dream family
stereotype. She was tall for her age, blond long shiny hair and green pretty
big eyes. She was not one to be bullied since she could not keep her mouth shit
when she was mistreated, making sure that the people who did got ashamed of
their mis behaviors.
One day she
had to stay late on her school finishing up some
of the school Newspaper’s
files and adding some images to complete the text, so it was not boring to
read. She knew very well what she was doing and acknowledged that pictures lead
the children, and her peers included to read, and they incentivated them even
more when they were shocking pictures of things that did not happen on daily basis. Even, when she knew sometimes she exaggerated a bit with the images that
she decided to clip to the files.
About an
hour later she had finished summarizing up the files that had been sent to her
by her peers at the newspaper writing club, adding pictures and of course, las
but certainly not least adding the cover of her school logo to the first page
of the newspaper.
Someone, a man apparently,
dressed all in black, was getting out of the principal’s office with a manilla folder
in his hands, he was not the most skilled man so she assumed he was not young
either. Right when she saw this she decided not to scream at him since if there
was any kind of encounter she did not stand any chance against a full grown man
being only a twelve year old girl. Instead, she recorded it with her cellphone
in order to have it as proof. She never stayed quiet and this time was not
about to be the first one, she settled an objective for herself, she would find
out who that burglar person was and she would make sure that the right
consequences and actions were settled.
She arrived
home and immediately took her old fashioned cell phone out of her pocket to
take a better look at the video tape she had recorded of the man getting out of
the principal’s office. She could see his face, it was indeed and elder man
the one who was stealing those documents. She thought that she recognized his
face, but she did not know exactly where she had seen him, she thought that she
had seen him around school some day; however, she did not know if he was a teacher,
cleaning assistant, who was him?
She decided
o let the thoughts of solving this thrilling mystery aide for that day and go
to sleep early, so she could get a better thinking tomorrow.
Today was a
new day, Alexandra had done her breakfast by herself, ate it, washed her teeth
and was ready to go. When she arrived at school she greeted everyone she could
in hopes that she would recognize the face that she saw in her phone screen as
the guilty one. However, when she wa about to enter classes and started losing
her hope she came across one of the concierges whose job was to clean the
school. She said hello to him and instantly recognized him, he was the one! He
was the guilty one! She screamed, at the top of her lungs, so everyone could
hear her. “He is the one who stole the documents from Mr Perez’s office!”
The
man instantly turned pale, trying to escape the situation but was impossible
for him as he quickly was surrounded by several children and teachers that were
alarmed by the screeching coming from Alexandra.
By Sofía Ranauro, Step 9
