Michele didn't think she was allowed to cry on center stage—or scream which she thought about as Ormond handed her the ugly head.
You'd better come back to Bath with me. It can be right spooky here at night when the moon is out, much less in a snarling storm.Have you spent the night on Plum Point before? Brian asked, suspiciousl...
They each closed their closet doors and scampered down the staircase. The guide was just about to close the heavy front door when they reached the downstairs hall and hurried breathlessly out the door...
Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.
The others climbed into the back of the truck with the pitchforks and the pinestraw, leaving Stacy all alone in the front with the man. She sat as close to the door as she could and held the handle ti...
The next morning a squawking Fuzzbucket awoke Michele from her tossing and turning. Her head hurt from dreaming a series of chasing, getting-caught, getting-away dreams. She felt exhausted and not rea...
Remember, there are a lot of things to be careful about, both here and at Biltmore House. You don't want to get into any trouble.Stacy figured she meant for them not to break anything like a valuable...
Michael had awakened first and raced down to the creek. Now he sat proudly in the center of the others holding a dripping brown bottle in his hands.Let me open it, Brian said impatiently, but Michael...
It's too hot to sit in the glebe. Let's sit over here.Now it was Michele's turn to look around for something she didn't know what was.Brian laughed. That's the glebe, he said, pointing to the house ne...
It took all of us, they admitted in unison.Except me, said Dennis. But I was decapitated.You do mean incapacitated, I hope, Mother said. How were you boys planning to spend summer vacation? she added....
He kept saying weird things to me in Elizabeth English.Like what? Christina asked.Like 'Me thinks I never forget a face,' Mimi said.Me thinks that makes no sense, said Grant.
As Mother headed the car for the highway, she said, You two sure got quiet in the back seat. I thought you'd be telling Jo Dee and Brian good-bye all the way across the bridge.Michele and Michael gigg...
And we had seen a man at the amphitheater dressed as a pirate—the same day the prop room keys disappeared, Brian said.Yeah, moaned Michele. The same day we were looking in the trunk where the head was...
You mean you have to pay money to go in these old places? marveled Michael.Of course, said Jo Dee. That's how they help pay for the restoration of the houses, silly.Let's go, Brian said. I know a shor...
They all fell onto the sand, then huddled up beneath the long wings of the hang glider. Think we could borrow this thing for a little while? Christina asked.Think we could all go to jail with your Pap...
Then Brian stopped so quickly that she had to grab her hand brakes to keep from plowing into him.Hey, you want me to bump my head against a tree, too? she asked.
The lid slipped off and out popped another slip of paper, along with several small, sticky black circles. Spots . . . beauty spots! she cried.Michael climbed out from under the bed and inspected the b...
The hot lights made Michele's skin sweat and mosquitoes attacked the back of her neck. You can't even scratch on center stage, she thought.
That surely must be what happened, she said to Brian. A caretaker found the head and returned it and . . .. . . and you can be in the play, Brian finished for her. I sure hope so—then we can quit this...
I still don't believe it, Christina said. I shook hands with the president.You shook—that's what you did! Alex teased her. Your hand was shaking like a leaf.