Classic Goosebumps #5: One Day at Horrorland by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-40580-5
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1994-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

15

I covered my eyes with one hand and thrashed out wildly with the other hand, trying to beat the bats away.

Choking and sobbing, I could barely breathe.

I heard Luke calling far, far away. He seemed to be behind a curtain of flapping, chittering bats.

And then, suddenly, sunlight invaded the barn.

On my knees, I lowered my hand from my eyes and saw that the barn door had slid open.

Luke, standing at the door, his mouth open in shock, turned back to Clay and me. “I — I touched the door, and it opened,” he explained.

Clay’s glasses were hanging off one ear. His blond hair was totally messed up. His eyes darted around the barn. “Where are the bats?” he cried.

I raised my eyes to the rafters. “Hey!” I cried out. No bats. No sign of any bats anywhere.

I climbed to my feet, pulling my hair back with both hands. “Let’s get out of here!” I cried.

Clay and I followed Luke out of the barn. The warm sunshine felt so good!

I was still itchy from the bats. I rubbed my shoulders and the back of my neck. “I hate bats! I really do!” I exclaimed with a shudder.

“But there weren’t any bats,” Luke said, grinning at me. “It was all a fake.”

“Huh? It was not!” Clay cried angrily. “Those were bats. I could hear them — and feel them!”

“All special effects,” Luke claimed.

“It wasn’t special effects when one got tangled in my hair!” I cried. Just thinking about it gave me cold shivers.

“Special effects,” Luke repeated. “Really excellent special effects. I was almost scared, too.”

“Almost!” I cried. I walked over, grabbed him, and pretended to wring his neck. “Almost?” I heard you screaming your head off, Luke!”

He pulled out of my grasp, laughing. “I knew it wasn’t real. I was just screaming like that to scare you!”

What a liar! I really didn’t believe my brother. He was scared. He was plenty scared. I knew he was!

“They were bats, not special effects,” I insisted angrily.

“Then where did they go when the door opened?” Luke demanded. “As soon as the door opened, the bats all vanished.”

“Let’s stop talking about it,” Clay pleaded. “Let’s find your parents — okay?”

“Yeah, okay,” I agreed, glaring at Luke. “You really are nuts, you know that?” I told him.

He stuck his tongue out at me.

I wanted to punch his lights out. But I try to be a nonviolent person. So I just gave him one hard punch on the shoulder.

He howled in protest. “You’re stupid, Lizzy. You’re really stupid,” he muttered. “And you’re afraid of pretend bats!”

I ignored him and led the way down the path toward the front gate. Two people in Horror costumes appeared on the path, going the other way, chatting enthusiastically.

“Is this the way to the front gate?” I called to them.

They ignored my question and walked right past us.

“Hey!” I called to them.

But they both kept jabbering away and didn’t even seem to see or hear me.

The sun beamed down on us. The air had become hot and still, with no breeze at all.

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