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NIGHT OF THE
LIVING DUMMY
Goosebumps - 07
R.L. Stine
(An Undead Scan v1.5)
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“Mmmmm! Mmmm! Mmmmm!”
Kris Powell struggled to get her twin sister’s attention.
Lindy Powell glanced up from the book she was reading to see what the problem
was. Instead of her sister’s pretty face, Lindy saw a round, pink bubble nearly the
size of Kris’ head.
“Nice one,” Lindy said without much enthusiasm. With a sudden move, she
poked the bubble and popped it.
“Hey!” Kris cried as the pink bubble gum exploded onto her cheeks and chin.
Lindy laughed. “Gotcha.”
Kris angrily grabbed Lindy’s paperback and slammed it shut. “Whoops—lost
your place!” she exclaimed. She knew her sister hated to lose her place in a book.
Lindy grabbed the book back with a scowl. Kris struggled to pull the pink gum
off her face.
“That was the biggest bubble I ever blew,” she said angrily. The gum wasn’t
coming off her chin.
“I’ve blown much bigger than that,” Lindy said with a superior sneer.
“I don’t believe you two,” their mother muttered, making her way into their
bedroom and dropping a neatly folded pile of laundry at the foot of Kris’ bed. “You
even compete over bubble gum?”
“We’re not competing,” Lindy muttered. She tossed back her blonde ponytail and
returned her eyes to her book.
Both girls had straight blonde hair. But Lindy kept hers long, usually tying it
behind her head or on one side in a ponytail. And Kris had hers cut very short.
It was a way for people to tell the twins apart, for they were nearly identical in
every other way. Both had broad foreheads and round, blue eyes. Both had dimples
in their cheeks when they smiled. Both blushed easily, large pink circles forming on
their pale cheeks.
Both thought their noses were a little too wide. Both wished they were a little
taller. Lindy’s best friend, Alice, was nearly three inches taller, even though she
hadn’t turned twelve yet.
“Did I get it all off?” Kris asked, rubbing her chin, which was red and sticky.
“Not all,” Lindy told her, glancing up. “There’s some in your hair.”
“Oh, great,” Kris muttered. She grabbed at her hair, but couldn’t find any bubble
