Arabella's POV

"Hey." Henry greets us as he exits the elevator.

"Hey." My dad and I greet.

"You called me?" Henry states.

"Yeah, check out what's in that bin." My dad informs Henry and I grin amusingly.

Henry opens it and pulls out a pair of underwear. It's not mine, it's my dad's, I would never let Henry see my underwear.

"What is...." Henry trailed off in disgust.

"I want you to do my laundry!" My dad explains and Henry was revolted.

"Ew, no!" Henry exclaims and toss the underwear in the bin.

A beeping blared and this confused me. That's the delivery sound, but we didn't order anything.

"What does that sound mean?" Henry asks.

"That we have a delivery." I inform Henry with confusion.

The tube shoots down and a box of pizza lands at the bottom. My dad goes over to us and picks it up.

"Huh?" He looks at us. "Did one of you order a pizza?"

"No." We both deny and my dad opens the pizza to reveal a note on the inside.

"Hey, get this." My dad smiles and reads the note. "Dear Captain Man, our daughter Debbie is having her birthday party Saturday night-"

"Oh no, Debbie?" Henry groans and my dad shushes him.

"We're inviting some of Debbie's favorite celebrities, including you and Miss Swellview!" My dad beams. "Oh, she is hot!"

"Will you please stop reading the box?" Henry asks him but my dad continues anyway.

"No. So, if you'll agree to come to Debbie's party, you may cash the enclosed check for twelve thousand dollars!" My dad set down the box and looked at the expensive check. "Whoa! Look at this check!"

"It has pizza grease on it." Henry points out and I shrug.

"I know." My dad beams and I look at the check with a smile. I take a piece of pizza and take a bite.

"Fine! Go to her party with other kid in my class except me." Henry complains and I gave him a confused look.

"Why aren't you invited?" I question him.

"Cause I was at Debbie's birthday party last year and everyone thinks I shot her in the face with a rubber ball and knocked her off the roof." Henry explains. "Onto a dog."

"Oh yeah! I remember hearing that on the news!" I chirp with a chuckle. "You did that?"

"No!" Henry exclaims. "Everyone just thinks it was me."

"Henry..." My dad begins. "It's just you, me, and Bella here."

"So?" Henry shrugs.

"Why did you shoot Debbie in the face?" My dad asks him and I stare at Henry with a look.

Henry gets upset. "I didn't! Man, even you two don't believe me!"

"Do you want us to believe you?" I ask him, setting down my pizza and so did my dad.

"Yeah."

"Can I feel your head with my truth fingers?" My dad questions and I grin.

"Sure you c—Feel my what with your what?" Henry questions with confusion and surprise.

My dad and I got out the equipment needed for his truth fingers. My dad has this machine so he can see if I did my chores or not, but this is another good use for it.

Henry was sat in a chair and a large device with a screen was next to him.

"Is this gonna be weird?" Henry asks and I giggle.

"No." I wave him off and my dad lifts his hands to reveal gloves with wires attached to them with red and green bulbs on each finger.

"Okay." My dad says. "Now. I'm gonna rub my finger nodules all over your head and face."

"So, what would be weird to you two?" Henry asks and my dad and I just chuckle lightly.

I swipe on the device to set up the finger nodules.

"See, this blinky things read human brainwaves like a lie detector but way more sophisticated." My dad explains.

"Whatever, just do it." Henry sighs and I finish setting up the device so we can see if Henry is lying or not.

"All right, now..." My dad puts his fingers on Henry's head and Henry's eyes grow as they move around. "Think about Debbie's birthday party."

"Debbie's birthday party..." Henry repeats in a trance.

"One year ago!"

"One year ago..."

"When a ball knocked her off the roof!"

"When a ball knocked her off the roof..."

"Because you changed the ball speed from 2 to 11!"

"No I did not..."

My dad and I watched the machine and it was calculating Henry's brainwaves.

"Why do you tell lies?"

"I don't tell lies..."

"Do you feel pretty when you tell lies?"

"You said this wouldn't get weird..."

My dad removed his fingers and took off the gloves. We turned to the machine and it was telling us that Henry was telling the truth.

"We believe you." I smile at him and Henry got excited.

"Really?" He beams, standing up.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean everyone will." My dad reasons.

"So you felt my face for nothing?" Henry questioned.

"No, now we're gonna find out the truth." My dad protests.

"But you two already know I didn't do it." Henry reasons.

"Yeah, but to know the full truth we've got to find out who did do it." My dad tells us. "That's the key slice of truth we need to complete the entire truth pie."

I smile. "Can we get some actual pie?"

"Yeah!" Henry agrees.

"I like the way you think about pie." My dad comments.

"So, how do we find out who really did change the ball speed from 2 to 11?" Henry questions.

"Easy. We're going to dress up like foreign filmmakers and interview everyone who was on that roof when Debbie's face got smacked by the ball." My dad explains to us.

"And then we eat pie." Henry adds.

"And then we eat pie." My dad and I repeat.

"Can I go?" I smile.

My dad chuckles. "No."

I pout at this and fold my arms.

——

"Well, Henry and Ray..."

My dad and Henry finished the interviews and Charlotte, being the smart girl she is, figured out it was them. I'm honestly shocked no one else fingered out that one of them was Henry, but this just proves that most people are stupid.

It was the day after the interviews and we were trying to figure out who knocked Debbie off the roof.

"I was helping Debbie's mom make gift bags. I was nowhere near the ball machine." Charlotte finished explaining.

"Do you think we can believe her?" My dad asks in his stupid German accent.

"Dude, it's just us here. You can drop the accent." Henry advises and my dad pouts.

"Geez, man, why you always got to pee in my skeezits?" My dad asks and I raised an eyebrow.

"Skeezits?" I mumble.

"I'm trying to prove I'm innocent." Henry snaps and I rest a hand on his shoulder.

"All right, calm down." I assure him.

"Play the section from video four again." My dad instructs and Henry plays that part from the video.

"Video....Four!"

"Where were you last year when Debbie was knocked off the roof?" My dad in the video asks Jasper in his stupid German accent.

"Yah, where were you?!"

"Where?" Jasper asks. "I was on the roof."

"Ahh!" Henry groans.

"Achtung!" My dad yells.

"Video three." My dad says and Henry clicks on the the video.

Oliver appears and I mentally sigh. "Yeah, I've always liked Debbie. Except one time in fourth grade, she told the teacher on me and Sidney for eating bugs. That mare me feel hatred."

Henry, my dad, and I share a look as my dad writes something in Oliver's bubble on the glass board. He was keeping track of who said what and who could be the culprit of changing the ball speed.

Henry plays Sidney's video. "Okay first. I only chewed the bugs. I did not swallow! An anyway, Henry's the one who changed the ball speed."

"No, I didn't!" Henry protests and sighs heavily.

"Video six." My dad says and Henry plays the video.

It was Piper and I roll my eyes when I see her. "No, I didn't change the stupid ball speed!" She hits the camera and goes into her house. "Get out of my face!"

Henry played Jasper's video. "Look, I felt really bad when Debbie feel off the roof. Even though she used to make fun of my bucket collection." He pulls out of bucketeer badge. "I'm a bucketeer!"

Henry goes back to Charlotte's video. "Okay, I guess I felt a little bit jealous when Debbie won the spelling bee last year. But I'm over it...That should've been my trophy!"

I glance at my dad as he writes down 'jealous' in her bubble.

Henry goes back to Oliver's video.

"Is that why you changed the ball speed?" My dad asks him with his stupid German accent.

"I want to talk to a lawyer." Oliver says.

"Video fifteen." My dad says and Henry plays the video.

It was Nathan Kress from ICarly. "I, uh, I know nothing about any of this. Could someone get my manager?! Please? I don't think these guys are even German."

Henry huffs and pauses the video. All that work and we have zero ideas on who changed the ball speed.

"So, I'm going to...I got to go buy some socks." My dad suddenly says as he backs away and Henry and I gave him a look.

He's lying.

"Socks? Right now?" Henry asks and my dad shrugs.

"Yeah, it's an emergency."

"But we still have figured out who made Debbie fly off the roof." Henry protests.

"But, hey, you still got that thumb drive with all the pics from the party and you have Bella with you. She can help." My dad reasons. "Check those for evidence."

"Are you going to Debbie's party?" Henry gasps and my dad laughs.

"Yes, he is." I glare at my dad.

"No. Check the pics." My dad denies.

"Okay." Henry says and we turn back around to scroll through the pictures from last year.

Henry and I heard a noise and we turn around to find my dad in his Captain Man costume and was standing underneath the tubes.

We follow him and Henry's face was full of betrayal. "I knew it! I knew you were going to Debbie's party!"

"Miss Swellview's gonna be there!" My dad complains.

"You better not go!" I warn my dad.

My dad looks down in sorrow. "Okay, I won't go."

"Good." Henry and I say.

"Fine."

We turn away only to hear a small whisper. "Up the tube."

We spun around and found my father being shot up the tube.

"Hey, where, I come from, a man who lies about socks is no man!" Henry yells after him and he turns to me.

"Let's just figure this out so I can eat food." I sigh and we both head over to the monitor to solve this problem.

"Like pie?" Henry asks.

"Like pie." I grin.

——

Henry and I found out who changed the ball speed.

It was Piper.

She didn't intentionally do it, she threw her phone and it changed the ball speed from 2 to 11.
I do feel bad, because it was an accident, but she's annoying so it's okay.

So, Henry went to the party and confronted everyone of what happened and I think everything turned out okay.

I think.