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there was someone pushing the cart, just as Aldo did every night during the week.
    But that person was NOT-NOT-NOT Aldo!
    “Eek!” I squeaked.
    The person with the cart was much shorter than Aldo. The person had no mustache and had longer hair, pulled back in a ponytail. The person had on a red sweatshirt and gray sweatpants and black high-tops.
    That person was definitely a girl. Or a woman. A female, anyway. And there was something strange about the way she moved. She tugged at her ear, snapped her fingers and swung her arms in an odd rhythm. Still, she straightened the desks, swept the floor, then mopped it (which Aldo didn’t do every night). She even dusted the shelf where Og and I live, but she didn’t seem to notice we were there.
    “How do you do?” I squeaked up as politely as possible. “Could you please tell me, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH ALDO?”
    Og seemed quite upset as he hopped up and down, up and down, repeating one “BOING” after another.
    The person who was cleaning didn’t even seem to notice. As she swept closer to my cage, I saw there was a device attached to her ear!
    “Og,” I said nervously. “I saw a movie at Seth’s house once about an alien from another planet, and that alien acted very strange. Kind of like this person.”
    Og stopped hopping and started listening.
    “You don’t think she could be one of
them
?” I asked. “Because in that movie, the space aliens captured a human and took him to their planet. I mean, you don’t think that happened to Aldo, do you?”
    Og stayed very quiet.
    “In the movie, the space alien had wires in his head, too.”
    I was sorry I’d seen that movie because it made me think scary thoughts.
    “See that thing in her ear? She could be getting signals from the mother ship.” I tried not to become hysterical. “That’s what they called it in the movie. The mother ship.”
    Finally, the person, who had done a very nice cleaning job for a creature from outer space, wheeled the cart out the door. She turned off the lights (without opening the blinds, the way Aldo always did) and left Room 26.
    The room was quiet, except for the TICK-TICK-TICK of the clock, which seemed to be louder than usual.
    Suddenly, the lights came back on. The person walked back in without the cleaning cart. She came over to my cage and reached in her pocket.
    “A ray gun, Og! The space aliens in the movie had ray guns so they could capture the Earthlings!” I squeaked.
    She pulled out a small carrot and shoved it between the bars of my cage. Then she left again, turning out the lights so we were plunged in darkness.
    “Eek!” I squeaked. When my eyes adjusted to the dark, I stared at the little carrot. “I guess that’s not really a ray gun,” I said. “But it could be an alien carrot.”
    “BOING!” Og agreed.
    It was nice of the creature to give me a carrot, but Ihave to admit, I didn’t touch it. Not all night long. You can’t be too sure about aliens, you know.
    And I still had no idea what had happened to my good friend Aldo.

    The world looked normal again in the light of day, and the morning went along like any morning in Room 26, except for the fact that Garth and A.J. were both very quiet. In fact, they never even looked at each other.
    Then came time for recess.
    While Mrs. Brisbane wrote word problems on the board, I spun on my wheel, knowing my friends were out exercising on the playground.
    Suddenly, the door swung open and in walked Mrs. Wright, pulling Garth along with her. He looked very unhappy.
    “Mrs. Brisbane, you’ll have to do something about this boy!” the P.E. teacher announced.
    Mrs. Brisbane was truly surprised. “Garth? What happened?”
    “You know our students are required to get a certain amount of physical activity at recess every day,” said Mrs. Wright. “But I found this young man hiding behind the building when he was supposed to be playing ball.
Strictly
against the rules.”
    “Were you hiding, Garth?” Mrs. Brisbane