Graveyard Slot by Michelle Schusterman

Author:Michelle Schusterman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-08-18T09:45:30+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ARE YOU STILL ALIVE OR WHAT?!

um. hello?? haven’t heard from you in like three days!!! D:

TELLING the rest of the cast the news about Guzmán didn’t quite get the reactions Oscar and I were expecting.

“He’s not faking anything,” Lidia said immediately. “That’s just what skeptics say when they face true paranormal activity.”

Sam nodded in agreement. “There was a presence in the catacombs with us. I sensed her.”

“Sorry, Sam, but sensing a presence won’t mean squat to Thomas Cooper,” Jess replied, massaging her temples with her fingers. Dad watched her, his brow furrowed.

“You think we should back out?” he asked.

“No.” Jess hesitated. “In fact, if none of Guzmán’s students have found any evidence, maybe we should just . . . ignore this.”

Lidia’s brows shot up. “What?”

“It’s too late to find another place to investigate.” Jess crossed her arms. “We can’t back out. If he’s faking it, he’s clearly doing a great job, so . . .”

“So you think we should air it regardless.” Lidia laughed dryly. “As long as it’s entertaining, who cares if it’s real, right?”

Oscar and I glanced nervously at one another. Jess believed in ghosts just as much as Lidia, but she’d always been more concerned with putting together a good show. Like the trick lightbulb in the pilot episode—I was willing to bet Jess and Roland had planned that without telling Lidia or Sam.

“I do care,” Jess told Lidia. “I also care about getting canceled. Our ratings are getting better, but we’re still on shaky ground with Fright TV. Look, you just said you believe Guzmán, so what’s the problem? We’re in agreement here.”

“But for different reasons,” Lidia muttered. An uncomfortable silence descended, broken by Dad.

“We do need to consider how we’re going to handle it if it does turn out Guzmán is faking it,” he pointed out. “I want to believe him, too, but just in case . . .”

Roland, who’d been silent since Oscar and I had finished telling everyone what we’d learned, finally spoke up.

“If it’s real, great,” he said flatly. “And if he’s faking it, we just expose him during filming. Either way, it’ll be one hell of an episode.”

It was a fair point, I thought. Our more skeptical fans would probably love an episode where we exposed a fake haunting. So long as it didn’t look like we were the ones faking it.

The meeting ended quickly after that. Even though everyone agreed with Roland, the atmosphere was still pretty tense. I holed myself up in Dad’s and my room with his laptop and logged into my e-mail account.

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