The Haunting of Apartment 101 by Megan Atwood

Author:Megan Atwood [Atwood, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781467700368
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

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he next three days at school dragged by for Jackson. He only got more nervous as the weekend drew nearer. By Friday, even Jinx, who really only thought of herself, noticed his moods.

“Seriously, Jackson, go dunk your head in water or something. Snap out of it!”

Jackson glared at her. “Snap out of what?” But he knew exactly what she was talking about—he’d snapped at everything she’d said.

They were sitting at the picnic tables outside the school, going over the plan one more time.

Jinx leaned in. “Did you find anything that sounded like real ghost-banishing techniques?”

Jackson snapped, “I’m looking! Anyway, I have the hard part of this whole deal.” He moved away from her, and Jinx snapped her notebook closed.

“All right, that’s it. I’ll see you tomorrow. Sleep this mood off, dude. You’re being a real—”

“Sorry, sorry. I just...I can’t find anything that doesn’t involve crystals and stuff. I don’t want to end up having to do some stupid ritual and hoping it works.” He didn’t tell her the real reason he was upset—he couldn’t find anything, not one thing, on how to bring a ghost back.

Jinx, who was half on and half off of the picnic table bench, sat back down. Her brown eyes softened, and she almost touched his hand, then moved to play with her Fringe patch.

“Look, we don’t even know if we’re dealing with a ghost yet,” she said. “You may have nothing to get rid of.”

“Yeah, but from what Emily said, it’s pretty bad.”

Jinx snorted. “And I’m sure she’s totally reliable.”

“Jinx, not everybody is as bad as you think, you know.”

Jinx stood up and swung her backpack onto her shoulders. “I’ll believe it when I see it. I wish there was an ‘Intention-meter’ like the EMF monitor I have.”

Jackson laughed. “Or you could just trust people.”

Jinx spread her hands in a what-are-you-gonna-do? gesture, and Jackson felt his mood begin to lighten.

They walked to the old Impala that used to be his brother’s. Jinx got in and said, “OK, one more time.”

Jackson nodded and started, “So we go over around eleven and set up the equipment.”

“I’ll set up the EVP recorder and the EMF sensor in the places where Emily said there was the most activity.”

Jackson’s brow crinkled. “Explain to me what those are again?”

Jinx sighed but Jackson knew it was just for show. She liked nothing better than to take him through the details of her tech-head geek equipment.

“EVP stands for ‘electronic voice phenomena’ and is used to record any voices that may be struggling to speak,” she said. “So, like, if a ghost isn’t that strong and his voice comes through the static in a radio or something.” Jackson nodded and tried to look interested, but he had to work at it. He kind of regretted asking.

Jinx went on. “EMF stands for ‘electromagnetic field’ sensor. That will let us know if there are any electromagnetic changes in the atmosphere, which means a ghost’s nearby. Also, mine has a temperature gauge, so we can tell if the temperature goes way down.

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