The New Girl by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: SOC035000
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 1989-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 12

Cory’s face filled with surprise, and then anger. “That’s not funny, Lisa. Why’d you pull me away from the meet to tell me such a stupid—”

He started to go back, but she shoved him back against the wall. “Owwch!” His shoulders throbbed with pain.

“Oh. Sorry. Just let me finish. It isn’t a joke. It was a terrible tragedy, my cousin’s friend said. There were rumors about Anna Corwin all over her school. No one was sure what really happened. The story was that Anna had fallen down the basement stairs in her house. She died instantly in the fall.”

“But that’s impossible,” Cory said weakly. He thought of their kiss the night before. He felt Anna’s lips pressing so hard against his. “Totally impossible.”

“My cousin’s friend swore that it was true,” Lisa told him. “It happened over the summer vacation, and people were still talking about it in the fall.”

“No way,” Cory said, bending over to retrieve the towel. “I don’t believe it. I just don’t.”

“There’s an easy way to prove it,” Lisa said. “Get dressed. Let’s go do some investigating.”

“Are you kidding? In the middle of the meet?” He glanced nervously over to the coach. Coach Welner was unhappily engrossed in Arnie’s bar routine.

“You’re finished anyway, aren’t you?” Lisa asked impatiently.

“Yeah. In more ways than one,” Cory said glumly, suddenly remembering the pathetic performance he had just given. “But if Coach catches me ducking out in the middle …”

He changed his mind. He knew he had no choice. He had to find out the truth about Anna—right away. “Okay. Meet you in the parking lot,” he said.

Making sure that Coach Welner was still watching Arnie’s performance on the bar, Cory slipped out of the door and into the locker room, where he changed into his street clothes as quickly as he could.

This story about Anna couldn’t be true.

She couldn’t be dead. She couldn’t!

That wasn’t a ghost he had kissed—was it?

He suddenly remembered the frightened look on her face the first time he had ever talked to her, when he had mentioned ghosts on Fear Street.

No. Get real. There was no such thing as ghosts. The girl who had kissed him with such heat, such feeling, had to be alive!

A few minutes later he had sneaked out of the building and was with Lisa in her car, heading toward the Shadyside public library. A light snow had fallen during the afternoon, covering the trees, making them look ghostlike in the gray light of evening.

“What’s at the library?” he asked her, breaking a long silence.

“The computer lab. They have all the local papers from all over the state on LexisNexis there. I use this room a lot to do research for articles I write for the Spectator”

They rode the rest of the way in silence.

At the library Lisa looked for the Melrose newspapers from four and five months before.

About twenty minutes later she found what they were looking for. It was a newspaper article from the previous spring. Cory stared at the black type of the headline on the screen.

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