9 Shear Madness

CHAPTER NINE SHEAR MADNESS The next morning Franny shuffled into the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. But when she looked in the mirror, something was different.

"MY HAIR!" she shrieked as she charged out of the bathroom. "Igor! What happened to my hair?" Igor didn't answer.

He wasn't in his bed. He wasn't playing in the bathtub. He wasn't watching cartoons on her computer. Finally she found him tied up by a thick cluster of her own purple hair.

"Those pigtails must have cut themselves off my head!" she shouted. Franny went to examine the bottle of growth formula. "And I'll bet they doused themselves with more of this stuff."

Franny ran to the window and looked through her telescope. "I see them! They're in town already," she yelled. "Gosh, they're so fast! I'll never catch them on foot." She ran downstairs and found Mom watching something on the news. "Reports are coming in from all over town," Mom said. "From beauty salons and barbershops! Two strange beasts are on a rampage.

"They say they're two large, piglike creatures that are eating everything." Franny's mom looked at her sternly. "Franny, you wouldn't know anything about this, would you?" she said.