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too. Knowing that she and Jon were just
best friends now didn't help that little feeling of jealousy that had crept
into her at the sight of Jon and Kimm together. He has every right to be
with her, Christie thought, pulling herself up to her full height.
    She headed with Jana and Katie to their table without
turning to look at Jon and Kimm again. Melanie and Beth were already sitting
there.
    "Christie," Melanie whispered as if she were a spy
with a big secret. "What's this about your getting kicked off the Super
Quiz team?"
    Christie drew a deep breath and glared at the table where
Tammy Lucero sat with the rest of The Fantastic Foursome. Laura McCall smiled
back. Christie gave her an angry look.
    "I have not been kicked off of the Super Quiz
team," she insisted. "There's been a big mistake. Somehow I got Mr.
Neal's folder with the questions for the tryouts mixed in with my books, and I
dropped it and the cards with the questions spilled out. I don't know how I got
the folder. And that's THAT! " she added firmly.
    "Sorry," said Melanie, drawing back. "I didn't
mean to make you mad."
    " I'm sorry," said Christie, putting her
hand on Melanie's hand and smiling apologetically. "It's just that I think
I've explained it a million times already.
    "What am I going to do?" Christie implored as
Melanie smiled back at her. "Tammy Lucero is telling everybody that I've
been kicked off the team already. I know the rest of The Fantastic Foursome is
doing the same thing, but Mr. Neal said I've got until Wednesday to find out
what happened."
    "Everybody knows you, Christie," said Beth. "They
know you didn't have to cheat to win."
    "You don't have any idea how it happened?"
asked Jana.
    "None at all."
    "We could all spread the word that it's a mistake,"
said Melanie. "Like Beth said, everyone knows Christie wouldn't have to
cheat to win."
    "That's great," said Christie. "But if I don't
find out what happened by Wednesday, Melissa McConnell will take my place in
the match against Trumbull, and everyone will think I cheated, regardless."
    "Let's put our heads together and figure it out,"
said Jana. "There's got to be a way. Why don't we all go to the auditorium
after classes and go over the scene of the crime? If anyone can figure it out,
we can."
    "Right," said Katie. "The Fabulous Five can
do anything."
    "Oh, Christie, I heard you had a problem in the
tryouts." Laura McCall's voice suddenly interrupted their conversation.
    None of them had seen her come up. She was smiling broadly,
and Christie could tell she was overjoyed at Christie's predicament.
    "It's none of your business, Laura McCall," said
Beth.
    "Just like the fact your boyfriend is sitting with Kimm
Taylor is none of my business, Christie?" she said sweetly. "I guess
you're right, only I hear you didn't do so well at the tryouts, and it doesn't
look as if you're doing too well with Jon, either." She smiled her
icky-sweet smile again.
    "Some people win, some people lose," Laura said,
flicking her braid over her shoulder. "Well, I don't suppose any of you
Fabulous Five will be at the Trumbull match since none of you will be on
the team. The Fantastic Foursome will all be there, of course, since one of our
group did make the team."
    "There's no proof that Christie took the folder with
the questions," countered Jana. "In fact, we're sure we can prove she
didn't have the folder. Someone must have stuck it in with her books." Jana
looked coldly at Melissa.
    "Oh?" said Laura, raising one eyebrow. "I
hear that someone saw Tim giving Christie a blue folder, just like the one Mr.
Neal had the questions in, Wednesday after school."
    For the second time that day Christie felt as if she had
been hit with a brick. Everyone stared at her, even The Fabulous Five.
    Christie dropped back down on the bench without even trying
to explain that she had gotten that folder from Miss Simone. It hadn't been
proven that she had taken the questions, and she had until Wednesday to prove
that she hadn't, but