The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck

Author:Richard Peck [Peck, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101664322
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2001-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Delay it though he would, it was time to explore upstairs. The thought of those throbbing blue lights in the upper window skated past my mind. But I planted a firm foot on the stairs, keeping Alexander by me. Thunder crashed above the attic. Lantern light wobbled on the treads as we climbed up through the house. The things that live in walls skittered, seeming to warn one another. Cobwebs swept our beanies and caressed our ears.

Where the stairs curved at the top, I dropped back a little just to see how far ahead of me Alexander would go. The ceiling had fallen up there, so he crunched along a step or two over broken plaster, holding his lantern high.

Alexander opened the first door he came to and banged it shut again. Making a strangled sound, he took flight and shot into the next room he saw. After a moment he spoke in a hollow voice. “Now here is a good room for your fortune-telling, Blossom. Yes, this will do very well.”

I was standing in the upstairs hall. Even without the lantern I could still see. My gaze fell to the door Alexander had opened and closed so quick. There was a line of light under it, bright across the dusty hall floor.

It glowed like daylight but whiter. To save my soul I couldn’t walk past that door. I looked back down the curving stairs into blackness.

“Get in here, Blossom!” Alexander called out from a far room. “Don’t go near that door! You hear me? There’s something there. I don’t know what, but . . . something.”

I hardly heard him. Everything faded except for the light beneath the mystery door. All by itself my hand reached for the knob.

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