Grim Hill: The Forgotten Secret (Grim Hill Series) by Linda DeMeulemeester

Author:Linda DeMeulemeester
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: MIDDLE GRADE
Publisher: Grim Hill Press
Published: 2013-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13 - Spells by Moonlight

AS WE APPROACHED the cemetery, I sort of thought it was a fitting place to be. After all, Mom would kill me if she found out that I was walking around at midnight with my kid sister and my friends. How did I get myself into this? It was wrong and I knew it. I could tell by how nervous Amarjeet and Emily were acting that they knew this was stupid as well. And I really didn’t like graveyards.

When Sookie was little we’d visited a cemetery once so Dad could put flowers on our grandmother’s grave. Sookie had stared at all the emerald green grass, the headstones, and the crosses sticking out of the ground and asked, “What’s this place for, Daddy?”

“It’s a park for dead people,” our dad had said. I knew Dad was trying to find a gentle way to describe the place, and Sookie seemed satisfied by his answer. Maybe that’s why she didn’t seem even a little scared to be standing beside a graveyard right now. Maybe it was too late to back out, but we sure didn’t have to stay long.

I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t stop shivering, and it wasn’t only because I was freezing, wearing just my Valentine’s pj’s under my red wool coat.

“It’s almost midnight,” Sookie said in a hushed voice. “Gather in a circle and hold your conjure bags to your heart.”

Amarjeet held up her red conjure bag, sniffed it suspiciously, and made a face. So did Mia. I held the silky material in front of my face and took a cautious sniff. Yuck

– sure there were lavender scents, but there was also a musty smell that made me think of old bones or ancient mummies. Why? Those dried flowers shouldn’t smell bad.

“Hurry,” commanded Sookie. My friends crushed the bags to their chests. I also did exactly as my kid sister instructed, only unlike the other girls, I kept peering nervously over my shoulder. Some of the headstones were visible behind the graveyard gate, and it was as if that crumbling stone angel was staring straight at me.

“Do you really think this is a good idea?” I almost heard it say.

Behind the gate, bare tree branches twitched as if long witch fingers were saying, “Come just a little closer.” Behind the graveyard, Grim Hill loomed like a hulking giant. Quickly I looked away and faced Lea’s house, but it seemed as if all the clouds collected over that creepy place, and I couldn’t shake the feeling we were being watched.

I thought about the soft eerie wailing I could hear from behind those thorny hedges. I could see them from where I was standing, and for a second I stared in amazement at how much the hedge had grown since the last time I was in Lea’s backyard. Around her aunt’s private garden, the vines were now at least seven feet tall and hung over the fence thick as snakes and dripped with huge nasty thorns.

“Now call out the name of your one true love,”

Sookie said with relish.

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