The Face by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"I--I wasn't!" she insisted. "Martha, really-- I--"

"I told her to," Aaron broke in. He stepped between us. He scratched his wavy, brown hair tensely with one hand and kept gazing from Justine to me.

"You what?" I demanded.

"I told her to wait in the kitchen," Aaron explained. "I thought you would get the wrong idea."

"Excuse me?" I cried.

Justine dropped a jagged shard of glass onto the counter. "Calm down, Martha. Everything is okay," she said softly.

Aaron stepped up close behind me and put his hands on my shoulders. "Yeah. Everything is okay," he echoed.

"We both heard about yesterday," Justine said. "We heard about how you lost it on Miller Hill. When you knocked on the door, we saw you through the front window. Aaron said I should go in the kitchen. We didn't want to get you upset again or anything."

Aaron turned me around. His blue eyes burned into mine. "It was stupid. I'm sorry, Martha. It was totally dumb. But I did it for you."

"We didn't want you to get upset again," Justine added. "I just stopped by for the calculator. That's the truth."

I lowered my eyes to the floor. The black and gray dots on the linoleum flashed and shimmered. I

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