Entry 15

Everything is much better now than it was when I wrote my last entry.  I ended up in the hospital, but was well enough to go back to school after 2 weeks.  I got pretty mad at Digby, though.  It turned out that he lied to me and was working for the Millers (Marina's family) the whole time.  They were paying him $100,000 for finding Marina and he never told me about it.  He was going to share the money with Henry and I, but I was so angry that I told him to keep it.  Zillah and Ezekiel both got put in federal prison, so we won't have to deal with them again.  I also seem to have a new celebrity status at school, and people, including Sloane, are treating me a little better than they used to.
I found out that Digby lied to me about something else.  He doesn't even go to our school and he had me fooled the entire time.  He just told me that he skips most of the time and he actually went to one of my classes with me one time.  Apparently he lives in Texas with his dad and is a crazy genius.  He is homeschooled, but has already finished all of this and next year's material.  He gives a lecture at the Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Society's annual conference in Baltimore. I guess I really didn't know anything about Digby after all.  He used the money for good things, too.  He bought me a new laptop because mine got destroyed, paid off his mom's mortgage, and paid the limo bill from prom night. I found out that he was going to leave town soon to go talk to Ezekiel about his sister.  In a panic, I went to the bus station in hopes that he would still be there, and he was.  We talked for a little while, and then he gave me access to a house that my dad bought in the Upper West side- "just in case my dad ever messes with my mom while he's gone".  Awesome, right?  He gets on the bus and is about to leave and then he gets off and kisses me! Then, he gets back on the bus, it pulls away, and he's gone.

Entry 14

The dance got pretty boring pretty fast, and Digby got a message from one of his "men"- he hires people to follow people like Ezekiel around, which is pretty creepy- so we decided to leave.  We had to sneak out one of the windows of the school to get out of there.  We took the limo down to the J's, where Ezekiel has been spotted.  We found out that Ezekiel sells drugs and that he was going to escape down to Mexico, even though Zillah and the others were going to Canada.  We got back in the limo and went to a sketchy motel where Ezekiel was apparently staying.  We got Sloane to distract Ezekiel while we went up to his room where we thought Marina was.  She was there, wearing only a bikini and a blue wig.  We tried to convince her to leave and come back home, but she refused to come with us.  I guess Ezekiel was the "rich guy" that Ursula told us about.  Digby started searching the room and found a bunch of Mexican pesos, loads of guns, and explosives.  There were also some empty wrappers that had previously held explosives, which means that there are a lot of unwrapped explosives somewhere.  Ezekiel started coming back, so we had to jump out of the window into the dumpster below.  Henry took Sloane and Bill home in the limo because they were all not in the right state of mind, which left Felix, Digby, and I alone.  Digby had stolen some keys from Ezekiel's bag without us noticing and they belonged to his storage unit.  We walked down there and unlocked it.  Inside, we found an ambulance- the same ambulance that had been stolen from the Children's Hospital.  We couldn't get inside, so we lifted Felix through an open window.  We were about to leave when Ezekiel and Schell appeared with guns.  They took our phones and then locked us in the trunk of their car.  We drove back to the mansion right across from my house and we were thrown into the basement.  Ezekiel had made a bomb with the explosives we had found missing and was going to blow up the entire mansion.  We found the meth lab in the basement that had been making the whole neighborhood smell like chemicals.  My mother and her new boyfriend were also sleeping in the basement, although I have no idea how they got there.  Zillah came downstairs and that's when Digby decided to share his knowledge.  Apparently, Zillah is Bananaman, and Ezekiel had been stealing her drugs and selling them in schools. The cops had found out and that was why Zillah was fleeing to Canada. We turned the lights out in the basement and then Zillah went back upstairs.  Digby and I crawled up the vent that the meth fumes had been escaping out of.  We turned in the wrong direction and ended up back in the house in a room with all of the little girls.  They told us that Zillah watches over them while their parents are traveling. They showed us how to get back down to the basement to save my mom.  We got my mom and her boyfriend out, but Digby and I went back into the house to figure out what was going on.  Digby told Zillah all about how Ezekiel had been stealing money and was planning to drive down to Mexico in his ambulance full of stolen money.  Ezekiel ended up tied up in the house that was going to blow up while we all ran out.  Ezekiel begged us to untie him and offered Digby information about what happened to his sister.  Before he can say much, we untied him and started running out of the house.  We weren't far from it when the house exploded and I blacked out.  When I woke up, the mansion was on fire and the paramedics were there.  They were lifting Ezekiel onto a stretcher, but it was actually Floyd and Schell dressed as paramedics who were putting Ezekiel into the stolen ambulance. Digby and I tried to tell people, but everyone ignored us.  Then, Felix jumped out of the ambulance and attacked Floyd.  But Schell pushed past him and started driving away until Henry appeared in the limo and crashed into the ambulance.  That's all I remember before the pain became too much and I passed out.

Entry 13

A lot has happened in the last few days, so I'm going to divide this part into several sections.
We had our school dance, which Felix rented a limo for, and we picked up a lot more people than we originally planned to. It was supposed to be just Felix and me, but we actually picked up Felix, me, Henry, Sloane, Digby, and Bill.  When we went to Digby's house, I discovered something new about him.  I had never known much about his personal life, but i guess this explains it.  Digby's house is being foreclosed.  He lives out of the garage of his house, and his mom doesn't even know he lives there.  She doesn't seem to be mentally stable; apparently she sort of lost it after Digby's sister was kidnapped.  He doesn't have food or a bathroom in his garage, which explains why he never has money and is always asking me for food.  I feel like a terrible person now that I know that Digby has been going through this and I never knew about it.

Entry 12

We have a few more ideas on where Marina might have gone.  We think that she used Sloane's personal driver to take her places.  Sloane is this very stuck-up, rude, and rich girl in our grade.  She's dating Henry, but she is very snobby towards everyone.  Digby and I got into Sloane's limo and told her driver to take us around to the places that Marina went before she disappeared.  He said that she mostly went to a really bad neighborhood called the J's.
Zillah also came to visit my mom while we were out.  She told us that they were moving out to Canada soon, so I guess we aren't going to have to deal with those creepy people for much longer.
I'm also getting a little concerned about Digby.  He had an anxiety attack today while we were running during gym.  I had to sit on his chest to get him to calm back down.  I've always known that he had to take lots of medicines, but I never knew why.  He's supposed to be on pills to control his anxiety attacks, too, but he doesn't take them. I'm just hoping that he's okay and that nothing's too seriously wrong with his health.

Entry 11

Today, we continued investigating the Marina case.  Digby, Henry, and I visited Marina's house pretending to work for the school newspaper.  Her house was a huge mansion in a nice neighborhood.  She lived with her stepmother and half-sister there.  Her stepmother was pretty unhelpful, but her half sister, Ursula, gave us a ton of information.  Both her and Digby seem to think that Marina ran away instead of being kidnapped.  Digby found out that she had filled a prescription for eight months and birth control and had taken it with her wherever she went.  Ursula told us that Marina was treated as if she was invisible around the house.  She also said that Marina started dating a rich guy before she disappeared. He got her involved with drugs and she stole money from Ursula.  He also bought Marina a new phone, but Ursula gave us Marina's old phone.  We still want to figure out where Marina went, but we now think that this case wasn't a kidnapping.

Entry 10

Somehow I got trapped into going to the dance with Felix.  Felix as in the tiny twelve-year old who is in our grade.  Digby told him that I would say yes in return for him buying drugs from Floyd.  So now, because Digby is such an idiot, I am trapped into having a twelve-year old for a date.  He approached me by my locker on Thursday- in front of half the school- and had some ridiculous speech prepared.  I was forced to say yes because of the promise that Digby had made to Felix.  Now I'm going to be the laughingstock of the school at this stupid dance.

Entry 9

I met a couple of girls today in the bathroom, so I'm hoping that I might have actually made a couple of female friends here.  Their names are Bill (short for Isabel) and Darla, and they seem pretty cool, except that Bill has a giant crush on Digby.  I was just leaving the bathroom when Digby dragged me into the men's restroom.  He wanted to show me a drawing on the wall of the Bananaman symbol.  Underneath it, it had some code written that looked like it had been changed frequently.  Digby figured out that the code was for the different rooms in the school that were listed in the Student Handbook that I had in my backpack.  We met after school in a classroom where we could see into the one where the drug deal was supposed to happen.  Digby got this kid named Felix to go in and buy drugs from whoever was selling them.  Felix is a twelve-year old kid in our grade that had skipped several grades.  We found out that the guy selling drugs at our school is our janitor, Floyd.  According to Digby, he is also the guy that we saw setting the Dumpster on fire with Ezekiel.  It's becoming quite clear to me that there is some really weird (and illegal) stuff going on in River Heights.