Kristy and the Vampires by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

“The thing is,” I said, “there’s no question in my mind anymore that somebody is out to get Derek.”

My BSC friends and I were all settled into our regular places in Claudia’s room, but this was no regular meeting. And, looking around the room, I could see that everyone else was just as concerned as I was about the trouble on the set of Little Vampires. Mary Anne was sitting on Claud’s bed, between Claudia and Stacey. All three of them were listening intently. Shannon sat at the foot of the bed, taking notes in a small notebook. Jessi and Mal were on the floor, looking up at me with worried expressions. And Logan was leaning against Claud’s desk, his arms folded and a concerned look on his face. (He never seems too comfortable at meetings — I guess because he’s the only boy — and he always looks as though he might bolt out of the room at any minute.)

It was quarter after seven, and I had spent the past fifteen minutes filling everyone in on the latest developments. Of course, they had heard plenty from me before that night about what it was like to be on the set every day, but I had never given them all the details about the string of “accidents.” Claud had seen one of them for herself, but she was shocked to hear about what had happened since then.

She passed a pack of Starbursts to Jessi and Mal. “Have some of these,” she said. “I just lost my appetite.”

“I think you’re right, Kristy,” said Shannon, looking serious. She checked over her notes. “The incident with the breakaway glass could have been a freak accident, and Cheryl’s fall, too. But that note? That’s definitely no accident.”

Mal gave a shiver. “Did it really look like it was written in blood?” she asked. “That is so gross.”

“Gross, and scary, too,” said Stacey. “Who would do a thing like that?”

“That’s the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question,” I said.

“What?” everybody asked at once.

I blushed. “Oh, that’s just something Watson says. I think it’s from some old quiz show. Anyway, all I meant was that who did it is exactly what we have to figure out. Otherwise, how can we stop them?”

“And they have to be stopped soon,” said Logan. “Or else Derek could really get hurt.”

“Exactly,” I said. “And protecting Derek has to be our first priority. We can’t count on his agent to help, since he’s not even on the set.”

“So now that we have a real mystery on our hands, how do we solve it?” asked Mary Anne.

Claud leaned forward, her eyes sparkling. “Well, if I were Nancy Drew,” she said, “I’d suggest drawing up a list of possible suspects.”

“Just what I was thinking,” said Shannon. She held up her notebook. “And I’ve already started. Number one, I think, has to be that self-centered blond guy. The star who’s so worried about Derek getting more attention. What’s his name? Carter?”

“Carson,” I said. “But I think Frank Bottoms, his manager, is a more likely suspect.

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