Kindred Spirits by Phoebe Rivers

Author:Phoebe Rivers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Chapter 8

The door opened.

I fell into in a small room designed to look like an old screened-in back porch. Mason stumbled out at my heels. A girl with red hair sat in front of an antique table selling Midnight Manor T-shirts and baseball caps. She grinned at me with plastic vampire fangs. “Vould you vant a Scream-at-the-Beach souvenir?”

“What did you do?” David banged through another door. The familiar noises of the boardwalk came from beyond it. His cheeks flushed red, as if he’d sprinted around from the ticket stand. “What did you do?”

“Nothing,” I said.

“Nothing,” Mason wheezed. He unzipped his backpack and rummaged about. He pulled out a small inhaler, placed it in his mouth, and took a deep breath. “Asthma,” he managed when he saw our curious stares.

That explained why he couldn’t breathe, I realized. He’d been having an asthma attack.

“One of you must have pulled down those skeletons in there!” David balled his hands into fists. “There is no way they just fell down! How did you do that? Why did you do that?”

“Not me,” I said.

“I didn’t touch it.” Mason’s breathing sounded better.

“They just dropped,” I said. “That’s the truth.”

“Weird,” David muttered. He opened the door leading back to the narrow hallway. “Pete? You fixing that?”

Mason took another breath with his inhaler, then tucked it away in his backpack.

“That was superscary,” I said as we stepped outside. The humid sea air felt great against my face. I inhaled the sugary sweetness from the fudge shop across the way. “I’m never going in there again.”

Mason shrugged. “It wasn’t so bad.”

“Seriously? I heard you scream.”

“Just getting into it. I didn’t want you to be the only one screaming.”

“What about your asthma? My aunt Charlotte has asthma attacks when she’s panicked.”

Mason’s eyes flashed. “I’m not your aunt Charlotte. It was that fog machine. I couldn’t breathe with that. And I don’t like small spaces. I was so not scared.”

I didn’t believe him, but I didn’t want to argue. So far, Mason and I had never agreed on anything.

Avery and Miranda were waiting for us. Lily, Luke, Garrett, and Nate hurried out a minute later. “They cut it short,” Luke grumbled. “Something broke down.”

“It was so good, right? Epic scary,” Lily gushed. “I am definitely coming back. I need to finish it.”

We dissected the different scares as we made our way through the crowds toward the pink-and-white awning of Scoops. Lily’s uncle Paul owned the popular ice-cream shop. He wasn’t technically her uncle, just a close family friend, but the Randazzos all called him “uncle.” Lily had so many uncles and cousins that I guessed they figured why not add one or two more.

The eight of us squeezed into a booth made for six. I was wedged between Lily and the tiled wall. Mason ended up across from me.

“It’s a good thing Sara gave Junior to David,” Lily said. “Otherwise, it would be un-bear-ably tight.” We all groaned at her joke.

“Why’d you do that?” Mason asked me. I couldn’t read his expression.

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