Ghost: Mysterious Monsters (Book four) by Slater David Michael; Sorghienti Mauro;

Author:Slater, David Michael; Sorghienti, Mauro; [Slater, David Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Incorgnito Publishing Press
Published: 2019-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Sam Inada

Ida jumped back, letting the clothes fall between her room and Sam’s. Her face was ashen. “I — ah — I—” she spluttered.

“We have to help—” Maddie started to say, but she was interrupted.

“Idaaaa!” Mrs. Kubatnik called from downstairs.

“Uh-oh,” Ida said. “Hold on.”

The kids all ran out of the closet and back to the top of the steps, where they found Marcus and the Kubatniks all looking up at them. Karl had a video camera hanging on his shoulder.

“We’re going out for a bit, Ida,” Louise said. “You’ll be okay here without us?”

“Sure, Ma,” Ida told her. “No problem.”

“You okay?”

“Yes, Ma.”

“Do you have a plan, Dad?” Max asked, hoping to take the attention off of Ida.

“Well,” Marcus said, “we have a couple of thoughts. The first idea is to—”

“Oh, well,” Maddie interrupted while Eyeballing Max for delaying the departure, “I’m sure one of them will work out.”

“You don’t want to hear the details?” Marcus asked. “Shocked!”

“Of course,” Maddie told him, “but I’m guessing you’re in a hurry. You can tell us how you cracked the case when you get back. We’ll be fine hanging with Ida.”

“Theo’s okay? Awake?”

“I’m good!” Theo said, poking his curl-covered head into sight.

“Text us when you’re coming back, though, okay?” Maddie asked.

“Deal. Just remember—”

“We know, Dad,” Maddie promised. “Notta foot, notta fist, notta finga.”

“Oklahoma.”

“Interesting family,” Karl and Louise Kubatnik said as the grown-ups headed out.

The moment the door closed behind them, all four kids rushed back into Ida’s closet. Ida poked her head through the hole behind the clothes, then pulled it back out.

“He’s still crying,” she said. “I’ve never seen him cry before. I don’t know what it means. I’m afraid to talk to him.”

“We understand,” Maddie said. “But this might be our only chance. We’ll go in with you.”

“Any funny business,” Max said, “and we’ll Mattigan-ize him.”

“What does that mean?” Ida asked.

“I don’t know,” Max admitted.

Ida thought a moment, then said, “Okay.” She put her head back through and whispered, “Sam!” But he was crying so hard that he didn’t hear until the third time she called him. When he finally looked up, he seemed embarrassed, but he sniffed hard, wiped his sleeve across his face, and waved her into his room. The Mattigans followed her through the hole.

“Who the heck are they?” Sam yelped, jumping to his feet at the sight of three strangers coming through his secret passage.

“These are Marcus Mattigan’s kids,” Ida explained.

“Marcus Mattigan? As in, Monstrous Lies with—?”

“We want the ghost,” Theo said. “Cough it up, already.”

“You want the ghost?” Sam asked. Really?”

“But you don’t believe there is a ghost, right?” Max asked.

Sam slumped back into his chair. “I want to believe.”

“Ida told us about Derpy,” Maddie said. “We’re sorry you lost your dog.”

“I’m not doing this for Derpy,” Sam said. “None of this is for me, either. I’m not really into—” He waved at all the tombstones around the room. “Any of this stuff. These clothes. None of it.”

“What?” Ida cried. “Then why the heck—?”

“It’s all for my mom.

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