Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider

Author:Robyn Schneider
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

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Dracula Cast List

MINA: Claudia Flores

LUCY: Abby Shah

DRACULA: Max Coleman

HARKER: Sam Donovan

VAN HELSING: Jamie Aldridge

DR. SEWARD: Nima Shirazi

RENFIELD: Leo Swanson

ATTENDANTS: Darren Choi, Seth Bostwick

VIXENS: Reyna Washington, Lauren Meyer

Gardner posted the cast list after school on Monday. My friends gleefully congratulated each other, and Max passed Sam a five-dollar bill without comment, having lost a bet over whether or not our teacher would cast Seth.

I quietly wrote my name on the sign-up sheet for crew, under costumes assistant. A couple of my classmates had already put their names forward as dressers or stagehands, after finding out they hadn’t made it into the play. Crew was a consolation prize for them, a second choice. If they’d really wanted to work behind the scenes, they would have taken theater tech. But then, if I’d really wanted to work behind the scenes, I would have, too.

“I can’t believe it,” Claudia kept saying, over all of them being cast, and then throwing sympathetic glances in my direction.

I’m fine, I kept trying to tell her with my face, but I had a suspicion she didn’t speak eyebrow.

“We have to go to Duke’s,” Sam proclaimed. “To celebrate.”

So we all walked toward the parking lot, squeezing into Sam’s Suburban. He rolled the windows down, cranked the stereo, and executed the most terrifying left turn in the history of our student lot.

Duke’s was on the pier, in the ritzier part of Laguna, the one they always show on TV. As Sam maneuvered the Suburban down Ocean, the air turned sharp, with a salt tang, and the street names changed to numbers. I watched as they counted down, marking the blocks left until there was nothing but the water.

Up in the canyon, where we lived, the homes were bright and Spanish-style, but down here, everything was modern and glass. Even the boats bobbing in the marina felt like they belonged to a different world, one where people golfed on the weekends at their fancy country clubs.

Being in this part of town brought back so many memories: Duke’s used to be the venue of choice for birthday parties back when we were kids. They had an old-school arcade with Skee-Ball and Dance Dance Revolution, and a counter where you could trade in your tickets for cheap plastic prizes.

“Wow,” Jamie said as we climbed out of Sam’s car. “What happened?”

When we were kids, the boardwalk had been an endless stretch of seafood shacks and souvenir shops. Now it was a parade of designer boutiques and artisanal gelato bars.

“Gentrification,” Claudia said, twisting her hair into a bun. “Isn’t it vile?”

We passed a salon that advertised a fifty-dollar blowout special and a pilates studio that also served pressed juice.

Darren made a face.

“Who would pay ten bucks for a green juice?” he wondered aloud.

“Abby Shah,” Max supplied, trying not to laugh.

“Duke’s never changes,” Sam promised.

And he was right. Even better, Duke’s was practically empty when we got there. It turned out Nima knew the guy working behind the counter, so he went up to chat. And

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