“What are you going to buy after we split the money?” Gavin asked Sam on the bus the next morning. “I was thinking about getting a puppy.”
“You can get a puppy for free from the animal shelter,” Sam pointed out. “You don’t have to be rich.”
“I know, but then I’m going to build my puppy a puppy mansion in the backyard. I’ll put a TV in it, and a little refrigerator.”
“Why does a puppy need a TV and a refrigerator?” Sam asked.
“Oh, that’s for me,” Gavin explained. “I’m going to live in the puppy mansion too.”
“I wonder why Rashid said that what’s inside the box will make us rich,” Sam said. “Isn’t our job to find out who it belongs to and give it back?”
Gavin shrugged. “Maybe they don’t want it anymore. Nobody else has wanted their stuff back.”
“I guess we’ll just have to see what it is,” Sam said. “It might not even be valuable.”
“Why would Rashid be so excited then?”
Sam had to admit that was a good question. If the box held an old pencil eraser or a marble collection, Rashid would have said so. That wasn’t the sort of information you kept to yourself. It was too boring to make a good secret.
“Maybe it’s somebody’s gold wedding rings,” Gavin said as the bus pulled up to school. “Remember how something rattled inside when we shook the box? Maybe one of the rings has a diamond in it!”
“Maybe,” Sam said.
Gavin grinned. “I bet if it’s rings, we’ll get a big reward. A million bucks at least!”
A million bucks seemed like a lot to Sam, but maybe Gavin was right that they were about to get a big reward. Maybe it would be enough to buy a monster truck!
Sam would look supercool driving around town in a monster truck.
By the time Sam and Gavin got to their classroom, school was about to start.