Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Author:Lily Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

DUST KICKS UP under all four wheels of my car until it looks like I’m dragging a dingy fog with me down the driveway to Yarrow House. Thankfully, the paint on the car is already beige, so it won’t be any more noticeably dirty when I get home than when I left for school this morning. Not that I think either of my parents would actually ask me where I’ve been. That would require them making eye contact and speaking to me.

I jam my elbow into the horn. I know there isn’t a clock in the abandoned house, but the girls haven’t had anything to do today except gather acorns for the truth spell we patched together yesterday. I had to fight after-school traffic all the way through town, and I still managed to be on time.

I roll down my car window and stick my head out.

“Let’s go!” I shout. I toot the horn again.

There’s a glimpse of short hair and visibly veined skin around the side of the house. Spotting me, Dayton rounds the corner of the porch, waving her swollen fingers wildly. Her corpse form is truly horrifying in the daylight—one of her opaque eyes looks ready to fall onto her cheek, the bruising on her neck is a rainbow of gruesome colors—but I force myself to smile at her as widely as my inner cringe will allow.

She turns and shouts to the others before dashing down the broken stairs of the porch. Riley and June appear behind her, moving as quickly as their wounds will allow. I can see a bone jutting out of Riley’s broken left wrist that snaps back into place as she hits the dead grass at the end of the driveway. June’s neck wobbles as she jumps off the porch but straightens out once she lands.

Dayton whips open the passenger door behind me and slides in. Her skin smooths out to peachy cream, and her eyes realign into brown irises and pinpoint pupils under long lashes. She beams at me in the rearview mirror.

The other doors open and close hard enough to rock my little Toyota back and forth. Riley settles herself into the front seat as June buckles in behind her.

“Where are we going?” Dayton asks, clapping her hands against her knees.

“Somewhere no one will recognize you guys,” I say. “Buckle up!”

Riley’s eyebrows pull together sardonically under the folded brim of her gray beanie. “Why? We’re already dead. We don’t feel pain anymore.”

“Yeah,” Dayton agrees eagerly. “I had a nail go all the way through my foot this morning, and I didn’t even notice!”

“Um. Cool, I guess?” I say, holding back a shudder. “But if you fly through my windshield, my parents will be super pissed.”

“Fair point.” Riley straps the seat belt across her chest. The second I hear the buckle click into place, I throw the car into reverse and speed back down the driveway.

We take the back roads out of Cross Creek, following the border of woods as it curves around the edge of town.

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