It wouldn’t be safe for you to go Grandma Sadie said We don’t have space suits in your size Can we sneak out of here and go to the space suit store and buy one I asked Space suits cost between three hundred and five hundred million dollars to develop and make Grandma Sadie said I felt my eyes grow wide Five hundred million dollars I get two dollars for my allowance every week It’d take me way too long to save up that much Maybe she can borrow a space suit Claire said I can wear yours Grandma
I’m afraid space suits need to be exactly the right size Grandma Sadie said Mine would be too big on you And since we haven’t sent any kids to space we don’t have one that would work But don’t worry There are two very experienced AstroBlast explorers going on a mission today in Grandma Sadie looked at her watch T-minus thirty-two minutes to liftoff Why do they say T-minus when they do countdowns Claire asked T stands for the amount of time until the event Eric explained When T is at zero it’s go time So we’d better leave right now Grandma Sadie said Okay Piper
I looked at Cosmo I only had thirty-two minutes left Then I’d miss him for the rest of my life Okay I said There was a little secret part of me that hoped we wouldn’t make it to AstroBlast in time I knew it was best for Cosmo if we did make it but I didn’t want to say goodbye How will we get out of here Claire asked Won’t the MaLa people be looking for us upstairs They sure will Grandma Sadie said But in addition to a secret entrance I also have a secret exit Grandma Sadie opened the cabinet under the Bunsen burner On the outside it looked like a regular
cabinet But inside it was a tunnel Before today I hadn’t been in any secret passageways Now I was about to go into my third If I hadn’t been so sad and worried about Cosmo I would have been excited about it This passageway was small We had to crawl Grandma Sadie bent down to go first Then there was a buzzing sound What’s that Eric asked Just my phone Claire said Don’t Grandma Sadie started
