Missy Impossible, Chapter 8

“Good idea, Missy. Guess I’m answering the phone today.”

“Come in, Coco. The door’s around back. It’s bigger on the inside than it looks.”

“You’re right, Missy. It’s very spacious. Hey, did you get a new purse?”

“No, it’s the housekeeper’s. I meant to search through it this morning, but my mother’s back from Crystal Crevice for some insane reason, and I needed to get out of that house.”

“Did you ask her why she was home?”

“She said she had to come back to water her damn tulips.”

“Missy, those tulips are made out of wood. They don’t need water. I worry about you sometimes, girl.”

“Let’s get back to that later, Coco. Take a look in the purse.”

“At what? The gum wrappers? You chewed through all the bubble gum, didn’t you? You don’t know where this purse’s been.”

“Not the gum wrappers.”

“Then what, the expired Boners employee discount card?”

“That, plus the business card. Look familiar?”

Madame de Boneville’s Ecole Supérieure de l’Espionnage for Girls – The MERCI Method

• Money: You can earn a lot of it!
• Ego: Spying makes you feel good!
• Revenge: Get back at your enemies!
• Coercion: Force them to do what you want!
• Ideology: Because you are right!

“Hmmm. That’s Madame Françoise’s card. Missy, do you think…”

“Do I think that my mother’s housekeeper’s one of us? I think so, Coco. Take a look at that discount card.”

“The name’s so long, Missy, it runs off the side, but somebody wrote ‘Chica Mutante’ across the top.”

“That card belongs to Carina Celina Cristina Margarita Sabrina Mutante y Bailarina del Infierno, a.k.a. Chica Mutante, the lock-kneed pole dancer who used to work at Boners.”

“You mean to tell me, Missy, that Chica’s your mother’s housekeeper? That would explain all the trash on the floor.”

“That’s right, Coco. And guess what? You’re dating her brother.”