You hurry towards Mr. Hansen's classroom. Mr. Hansen is correcting papers at his desk. You tell him quickly and quietly about Maya's testimony and the threats. He looks serious. He asks his class a few quiet, general questions, but no one confesses.
However, he does recall one crucial detail that connects two students to a location: "I asked two of my students, Tate and Lisa, to take the heavy food drive collection box and store it in the Storage Closet by the gym right after recess. They were the only ones out of the room."
This gives you a time and a place. The collection box is usually heavy and bulky—a perfect cover for hiding a platter of cupcakes. But, what if they ended up hiding the cupcakes in the gym—which is next to the storage closet...