Banana Pudding

Chapter 12 Banana Pudding CLYDE ? “ Miss Plum?" I quickly looked around the storage room. But all I saw were boxes. " Are you okay, Clyde?" my teacher asked. The voice came from a closet. “ Yes, Miss Plum. " I tried to open the closet door. But it had been locked with a key.

" A big man with a mustache tricked me, " Miss Plum said. " He wanted me out of the classroom so he could get you. " " He tricked me, too, " I said, “ and brought me here to get the Golden Monkey. " I looked at the locked storage room door. I looked at the locked closet door. I looked up and saw a ceiling vent. But it was too high to reach. At least, too high for a boy. But not too high for a monkey!

" It's time to change! " I told myself. “ It's monkey time! " I closed my eyes and tried to think of something super exciting. But nothing happened. So I tried again. But all I could think about was that my teacher was locked in the closet! And that I was locked in the storage room! And that the thief was getting away with the Golden Monkey! It made me angry. But just then I heard a voice coming from a speaker on the wall.

" There's been a change in today's lunch menu, " it said. “ Sounds like Claudia, " I said. " Today's lunch dessert, " the voice from the speaker said, “ will now be . . . banana pudding. " YUM! It was my favorite dessert! Just thinking about eating a bowl of banana pudding made me smile. Then my head started spinning. My heart raced. Faster. And faster. I sneezed. “ A-CHOO! "