It was a day like any other, although Diana Tully had just moved to a new town and was unpacking when she noticed a cute little tabby cat with a pink collar on the lawn next door. As Diana went to pet it, she noticed an old-woman at the window. When she saw the woman, she got such a fright. Diana ran back to her mother, who was in the kitchen. To tell her that she had just seen a scary old-woman in the house next door, and her mom said she was their next-door neighbour, Mrs. Higgins, then said she's not that scary once you get to know her, but Diana did not hear her mother she was already thinking about her first day at her new school.
A few months passed, and Diana had made a new friend at school, and her name was Sophia. The night before Sophia was going to have a sleepover, there was a storm, yet it was not an ordinary storm. It was a giant storm. It caused Diana to be so scared that she hid under the covers for the whole night. When it was morning, the storm had cleared, Sophia had just arrived as they were going inside, Diana noticed something that looked like a pink cat collar, then they went inside and showed Diana's mother. Her mother said it was their next-door neighbour's cat collar, then suddenly, there was a knock at the front door. It was Mrs. Higgins, and she seemed to have a worried look on her face. She spoke, in a little voice, "Excuse me, but have you seen my cat, Elle? She seems to have gone missing since last night, and I've looked in all her favorite places she usually is, and I couldn't find her. I looked everywhere but still couldn't find her. As Diana's mom spoke with Mrs. Higgins. Diana and Sophia slipped into her room at the top of the stairs and started planning a rescue mission, but where was Elle? As Sophia thought about what to do first, the light caught, her eyes and she decided to close the curtains but didn't know that there was a bird on the ledge. Sophia closed the curtains and still didn't notice it had been there until it flew away. Sophia watched it fly away as she watched it swoop down then something, caught her eye. I see something shiny down there she exclaimed, so they went down to the garden and found a cat bell buried in some dirt. "We found a clue," said Diana.
I've seen these kinds of things on TV, and they are called detectives who find items that are lost, as well as return them to their owners. That's a good idea, Sophia, let's be detectives and solve this mystery cat's disappearance. I have an idea said Diana let's search my backyard and see if she's hiding there.
So they decided to begin searching in the garden and found a trail of paw prints. The prints had faded in the dirt, although Diana knew that she was close, so they started looking in the bushes near to the fence at the end of the yard and looked after that looked some more but could not find Elle, they searched next to the chicken coop, but they couldn't find her there either. The duo was about to give up, except then Diana remembered the shed where her mom kept all the gardening tools and walked to it not only did they see a hole in the side wall big enough for a cat to get through. They also heard a sound that sounded like little meows, quickly they ran into the house and grabbed the key to unlock the shed door. When they managed to open the door, they found Elle. She was on the blanket that had been left there by accident the night before, Diana's mother said as they looked at it closer there seemed to be something moving under it. The movement turned out to be a kitten, yet there was not one kitten but three! The girls were very happy that they found Elle and her newborn kittens, but how were they going to give them back to Mrs. Higgins? And so they found a basket and put the kittens and Elle in it in addition took them to Mrs. Higgins house and Diana took a gulp of air in and pressed the bell on the wall, as it rang out with a fuzzy tune, as it finished, the door opened. Mrs. Higgins was standing there with a puzzled look on her face. Good afternoon little ones. What can I help you with?" she asked.
"Excuse me, Mrs. Higgins. We are here to return your missing cat, Elle. And as Diana said that, the cat had poked her head out of the basket.
"Oh, you found, Elle. Thank you, but where was she?" Mrs. Higgins asked.
"She was in my mother's shed. It seems that she felt safe there to give birth to her newborn babies."
"Oh, my!" said Mrs. Higgins. She was looking a little bit thicker lately," she said as Mrs. Higgins took the basket. She looked in it and said: "They are so cute. Thank you for finding them. Would you like to come in? I have just made some tea. It would be nice to find out how you found her." And so Diana and Sophia nervously walked in and looked at the walls, which had many pictures hanging on them of Mrs. Higgins at her young age, one of her in Romania wearing gypsy-like clothing and dancing with a mysteriously handsome young man.
"Is this you in Romania?" asked Diana.
"Yes," replied Mrs. Higgins as she placed the tea on the table in the middle of the room.
"Might I ask who the handsome young man is?" asked Sophia.
"Oh, he was late Mr. Higgins," Mrs said with a sigh,"Ive had that picture since nineteen twenty-five. But let's hear how you found my little Elle, who I was so worried about."
For the rest of the afternoon, Diana and Sophia explained how they followed the clues that led them to Elle and her kittens, and to her friendly neighbour, Mrs. Higgins, and from that day on, Diana never forgot the day she found her courage.
