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THE HAUNTED MASK
Goosebumps - 11
R.L. Stine
(An Undead Scan v1.5)
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“What are you going to be for Halloween?” Sabrina Mason asked. She moved her
fork around in the bright yellow macaroni on her lunch tray, but didn’t take a bite.
Carly Beth Caldwell sighed and shook her head. The overhead light on the
lunchroom ceiling made her straight brown hair gleam. “I don’t know. A witch,
maybe.”
Sabrina’s mouth dropped open. “You? A witch?”
“Well, why not?” Carly Beth demanded, staring across the long table at her
friend.
“I thought you were afraid of witches,” Sabrina replied. She raised a forkful of
macaroni to her mouth and started to chew. “This macaroni is made of rubber,” she
complained, chewing hard. “Remind me to start packing a lunch.”
“I am not afraid of witches!” Carly Beth insisted, her dark eyes flashing angrily.
“You just think I’m a big scaredy-cat, don’t you?”
Sabrina giggled. “Yes.” She flipped her black ponytail behind her shoulders with
a quick toss of her head. “Hey, don’t eat the macaroni. Really, Carly Beth. It’s
gross.” She reached across the table to keep Carly Beth from raising her fork.
“But I’m starving!” Carly Beth complained.
The lunchroom grew crowded and noisy. At the next table, a group of fifth-grade
boys were tossing a half-full milk carton back and forth. Carly Beth saw Chuck
Greene ball up a bright red fruit rollup and shove the whole sticky thing in his mouth.
“Yuck!” She made a disgusted face at him. Then she turned back to Sabrina. “I
am not a scaredy-cat, Sabrina. Just because everyone picks on me and—”
“Carly Beth, what about last week? Remember? At my house?” Sabrina ripped
open a bag of tortilla chips and offered some across the table to her friend.
“You mean the ghost thing?” Carly Beth replied, frowning. “That was really
stupid.”
“But you believed it,” Sabrina said with a mouthful of chips. “You really
believed my attic was haunted. You should have seen the look on your face when the
ceiling started to creak, and we heard the footsteps up there.”
“That was so mean,” Carly Beth complained, rolling her eyes.
“Then when you heard footsteps coming down the stairs, your face went all white
