In the backyard the traffic sounded far, far away. They could even hear the sweet tweettweet song of a little bird. Bella closed her eyes and stroked Noodle. And then they both jumped!

“Aaaaaarh! Eish! Aaaaarh!” The most terrible sound was coming from Gogo’s house on the other side of the back wall. Quickly, Bella ran to tell her mom what she had heard.

“There are terrible sounds coming from Gogo’s house!” shouted Bella over the vrrrrr, vrrrrr! of the vacuum cleaner. Mom switched it off.

“I didn’t hear anything,” said Mom.

“Listen!” said Bella. And then Mom heard it!

“Aaaaaarh! Eish! Aaaaarh!”

“That’s Gogo,” said Mom. “Quick! We must go and see what’s the matter.”