Missing the Phone! by JJ

One afternoon Owen was writing a two-page essay at school when he heard his teacher shriek, “Where is my phone?”

The whole class ran over to the teacher’s desk. Earlier her phone was charging. Now, it was GONE!

Owen was well known for solving mysteries. He went out of the classroom and to his locker. He opened his backpack, pulled out his notebook, magnifying glass, and his scotch tape. Then Owen walked back into his classroom and put some tape on the charger and quickly pulled it off. He recognized the fingerprint but couldn’t remember whose it was. He quickly filed through the pictures of fingerprints he had taken. The one he had found belonged to the principal! Owen told the teacher this.

“It can’t be!” she said while shaking her head.

“It has to be,” said Owen. Owen was rarely wrong. Even the teacher knew this. The teacher dialed the police and they came. The police accompanied by Owen, walked to the principal’s office and opened the door.

“Hello there,” said Chief David. The principal quickly looked up. You could see fear in his eyes. “Open your desk,” the Chief said calmly.

The principal slowly slid open his desk and revealed a smartphone. “You are under arrest,” said Chief David. The police officers took the principal away and Owen took the phone to his teacher. Everyone congratulated Owen when he arrived.

“You did it!” exclaimed the teacher.

Owen smiled. “I guess I did,” he said.