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Probably fro off

But it still sent a tingle up her spine The nightmare flared in her mind

You have twenty-four hours to return to my lairNo takebacks No second chances

The sea witch’s voice echoed through her head She shook it off, deciding to revisit everything soon She didn’t have time to worry about it all now or they’d be late for the bus

The bell rang, and Shelly darted from the bus into Triton Bay Middle School

She wove through the crowded hallway, hoping that no one would see her She missed her private school, which was sht for her locker, scanning the halls for Kendall and the twins in hopes of seeing her friends They would cheer her up after her nightot on her nerves But to her dismay, she didn’t see them anywhere

A few h it felt like an eternity—she reached her locker “Coing it, to no avail Ever since she had gotten to hout the day, she had been having stress dreaain Click It unlocked, and theopen

Right as a group of students walked past, rotten fish spilled out of her locker They spewed onto the floor, their eyes wide and pale, along with a pile of plastic garbage—straws, plastic bags, old coffee cups, plastic bottles It was the kind of trash that washed up on the beach

The stench was overpowering,Worse yet, she stepped on a fish and lost her balance, hitting the floor with a thud and shouting out The other kids turned to stare at the scene as more and more fish spilled out in a heap that coated Shelly’s body on the floor

She tried shoving the out of her locker and all over her, their lifeless eyes staring Now everyone in the hall had stopped to look

Nor his friends

“They’re n-notthe sli on to the wall of lockers to keep fro back into the rotten fish pile

Her mind st

ruggled to come up with a rational explanation Maybe her archne on the rival swim team, had planted them to intiht in the hundred- off elaborate pranks Legendary, even But then again, where would Judy have gotten all those fish? They looked exactly like the ones they fed to the dolphins at the aquarium And also, hoould she have snuck the, hoould she have gotten the combination to Shelly’s locker?

“Fish lover!” kids chanted