The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects

The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects — page 7
Relda had never told a lie Mr Canis was not fine by a long shot In fact he was very very sick Three weeks earlier the girls had learned that Granny’s friend the skinny grouchy Mr Canis was secretly the Big Bad Wolf When the family battled Jack the Giant Killer over a jar of magic beans the Wolf bit Jack and tasted the villain’s blood It changed him When he got home Canis locked himself inside his bedroom and wouldn’t come out Every night Sabrina and Daphne heard his painful moans and labored breathing His horrible cries woke them in the night and the sounds of him slamming himself against a wall kept their teeth on edge Mr Canis was far from fine That’s good to hear Hamstead said doubtfully I want my phone call a little voice cried from the glove compartment We were framed The sheriff banged heavily on the dashboard Tell it to the judge Sheriff Hamstead pulled his squad car into the driveway of the family’s quaint two story yellow house It was very late and the house was dark Sabrina opened her door and Elvis lumbered out still wearing two Lilliputian-free glue traps on his giant behind It was bitterly cold and Sabrina hoped the two adults wouldn’t blabber on as they often did Granny could talk a person’s ear off but the sheriff just thanked them again and excused himself claiming he had a mountain of paperwork waiting for him back at the station When his taillights were fading down the road Granny took a giant key ring out of her handbag and went to work unlocking the door There were more than a dozen locks Once Sabrina had believed Granny Relda was just a paranoid shut-in but in the last three weeks she had seen things that she would never have dreamed possible and now understood why the house was locked so tightly When all the locks were turned the old woman knocked on the door three times and announced to the house that the family was home making the last magical lock slide back and the door swing open for them After cookies and some vegetable-oil swabbing for Elvis Granny Relda urged the girls to get to bed You’ve got school tomorrow I’ve kept you up too late as it is Actually Granny Sabrina replied feeling her head for a fever that wasn’t there I think I’m coming down with something I’d hate to go to school and get everyone sick Granny grinned Sabrina it’s been three weeks If you two don’t go to school tomorrow they are going to put me in the jailhouse Now up to bed Sabrina frowned School was a waste of time There were more important things to do When Daphne was steadily snoring Sabrina slowly crawled out of their four-poster bed The room was once their father’s and his model airplanes still hung from the ceiling An old catcher’s mitt rested on his desk and his collection of books lined a shelf Sabrina pulled several of them into her hands pulled a key ring out from under her mattress and silently crept into the hallway