POST by FRAN: Part 2 of the Cell Phone Mystery!

Buttercup came over on a Sunday afternoon and told Mum his story. I was with a team at that time, but Buttercup told Mum that he saw Pumpkin with the cell phone. Buttercup said that Pumpkin was asking for a charger to charge a white cell phone.

It took my Mum a while to process Buttercup's story in her head, but when she had it all figured out she went and told my Dad that Pumpkin was seen with the phone. Dad didn't want it to be Pumpkin, but he had no choice but to tell him that he couldn't come to work for a week.

Later on that dark Sunday night we went to Possum's house to talk to him and his mum about what had happened. When we got there, Possum's mum told us that a boy came to her and sold he back the cell phone for 300 cordobas (like $13). She also said that it was missing the memory chip and the sim card, BUT the phone was back in Possum's hands.

So we knew that SOMEONE took the phone from our kitchen and we knew that SOMEONE sold it to SOMEONE ELSE, because that SOMEONE ELSE had sold it back to Possum. And that SOMEONE ELSE said that Pumpkin had sold it to him and so he bought it back to Possum.

After our interesting chat with Possum's mum, we went to go speak to Pumpkin who lived down the street. Possum, Possum's mum, Buttercup, Yader, my Dad, and I went to go talk with Pumpkin. We were there for an hour or more and Pumpkin insisted that he didn't take anything.

Pumpkin's mum was beginning to get mad, so she went outside and started shouting at Possum's mum saying "MY SON SHOULD OF LET YOUR SON DROWN IN THE POOL, BUT HE DIDN'T, MY SON DIVED IN AND SAVED YOUR SON!!!!!!!!!!!" (Previously Possum had been swimming in our pool, but was pushed over to the deep end and began to drown, but Pumpkin jumped in and saved him) Pumpkin began to cry and to accuse Possum of lying.

At that we decided to leave. Pumpkin's mum was a fighter and we knew that Pumpkin wouldn't admit to doing it with his mum in front of him!

We dropped off Possum and his mum and went home at 9:36 P.M. When Yader, Dad and I got home we ate our dinner and got ready for bed. Half an hour after we got home, Pumpkin came to our house by himself. Dad sat outside with him for a long time, and finally they came in. Dad had a disappointed look on his face, he came to the living room and sat Pumpkin down.

Mum asked "Did he admit to doing it?" Dad shook his head, still with the disappointed look on his face. Pumpkin started crying again and asking us things like "Why do mean people want to do mean stuff to nice people?" After ten minutes I went to bed, because I grew bored.

Almost a week passed and we were still unsure about who took the phone.

Sunday came again and Mum became impatient. Mum and I went to pick up Possum and went to find the SOMEONE ELSE who had sold the phone back to its rightful owner. We found the SOMEONE ELSE really fast, he was wearing a baseball cap, a green T-shirt and a pair of jeans.

We took him home and asked him if Pumpkin sold him the phone, we even showed him a picture... He started to nod his head, but then he began to shake his head to say 'no'. And with that Mum was certain that it was Pumpkin, but she wanted him to say "yes, Pumpkin did sell the phone to me." He didn't tell us anything.

We took him back to his home and said that we might need to get the police involved, but if he told us who it was we wouldn't even speak to the police. Still there was nothing so, we went to drop off Possum and went to SOMEONE ELSE's house again and talked to his family, his mum was really disappointed with him and we left so that they could talk. Mum told SOMEONE ELSE that we would give him until Tuesday to tell us who sold him the phone or we would get the police involved.

We all went to sleep early that night wondering what interesting things tomorrow would bring. The night was long and I thought it would never end. I read a book until I fell asleep, it was very hard to sleep.

In the morning I received a text message, it was SOMEONE ELSE's mum, she said that her son told her that is WAS Pumpkin and that she was a little surprised at what had happened, but thankful that it was sorted out now.

We need to learn from these experiences that not being truthful is very dangerous and painful to the people around us.