Moonlight Secrets by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

15

“Let’s cut Ms. Harvey’s class,” Shark said. He tossed his government text into the locker and pulled out his jacket.

I said okay. It was the last class of the day, and she was just reviewing stuff anyway.

I couldn’t concentrate on anything all day. I kept thinking about the night before. Seeing cockroaches everywhere I looked.

I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t even think about putting something in my mouth.

The cockroaches didn’t stop coming until I left the bar. I threw up a dozen of them into the curb on Fear Street. I hunched over the curb, feeling sick, waiting for more bugs to crawl out.

But there were no more.

The next morning my tongue kept tingling and itching like crazy. I could feel the little legs crawling over it. I kept poking my fingers inside my mouth, feeling for more bugs. But there was nothing there.

Just the memory of it.

And the memory of Candy Shutt’s strange smile. As if she was really enjoying seeing me suffer.

Shark and I stepped out the back door by the boys’ locker room. It was a warm day, the sun beaming down in a cloudless sky. I unzipped my jacket. It felt more like May or June than October.

I swung my backpack onto one shoulder and followed Shark to the students’ parking lot. I had parked my mom’s little blue Chevy Malibu by the fence.

Some kids in a gym class were kicking a soccer ball back and forth on the field beside the stadium. I heard the coach’s whistle and saw some other guys on the track getting in position to do sprints.

“Hey, Nate—leaving early?”

I heard the shout and spun around. Aaron. Calling from the soccer field.

I waved. And saw Candy watching us from beside the track. She wore white gym shorts and a gray T-shirt. Her black hair flew around her face in the warm breeze. She had her hands on her waist and stared hard at us, squinting into the sun.

I spun away from her. Up ahead, Shark had his head down. He took long, loping strides. I had to run to catch up to him.

“I just want to get out of here,” he muttered. He shook his head. “I’d like to get in the car and start driving and just keep going. I mean, never look back. Just keep following the highway wherever it leads.”

“Whoa. What’s up?” I asked. That didn’t sound like Shark.

Well, yes, it did. I mean, you never knew what you were going to get with him. Some days he was up and enthusiastic and really into things. Other days . . .

“You mean the thing at the bar last night?” I asked. “The cockroaches?”

He shook his head. “That’s not what I was thinking about, Nate.”

I unlocked the car door and started to slide into the driver’s seat. “What were you thinking about?”

He shrugged. “Whatever.” He suddenly looked embarrassed.

“No. Really,” I said.

He gazed at me a long time, as if deciding what to tell me. “It’s my dad,” he said finally, lowering his eyes.

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