“I thought I told you guys not to bring anyone else here!” Danny cried, when he saw Angelica enter the boys’ cabin with Sam and Lil.
Lil grinned nervously and shrugged. “She overheard us talking about what we were going to do tonight, and kept begging us for her to come along. We really didn’t have any choice.”
“Yeah!” Sam agreed, nodding. Then she whispered so only Lil and Danny could hear, “We had to bring the witch here!”
“HEY!” Angelica yelled. “WHO ARE YOU CALLING A WITCH?”
Sam and Lil giggled.
Danny turned on his flashlight. “Keep it down you guys! It’s eight o’ clock! Some people are already asleep!”
“Wow!” Tommy exclaimed, as he pulled something out of a bag and stuffed it into his mouth. “Whatever this stuffs is, it’s nummy! What’s is it Danny?”
“Popcorn.” He answered.
“Oh! What’s it made of?”
“Corn kernels.”
“Wow!” Tommy cried once again. “Poofy, soft things made out of corn! What other good foods will the snack peoples come up with next?”
Danny laughed. “Okay, we’d better all grab a seat and start the story now!”
“How do we grabs a seat?” Phil asked, puzzled.
“Just sit somewhere!” Danny answered.
Tommy, Chuckie, and Angelica sat on the bottom part of the right bunk bed, while Phil, Lil, and Sam sat across from them on the other bunk bed. Danny grabbed the desk chair and set it down near the edges of the bunk beds so he could face all of his friends.
“Before I start telling you guys the story,” Danny started, “remember what I said earlier. This story is for your ears only! If anyone thinks they’re going to speak about this to someone else after I finish, I’d suggest that you leave right now!”
Danny looked around. No one was getting up to leave. “All right!” he sighed, holding the flashlight up to his face. “Angelica, uncross your fingers!”
Angelica groaned, while the babies giggled. “Fine!” she cried, rolling her eyes. Angelica folded her hands onto her lap. “Are you happy now?”
“Yes. Now I will begin telling the story.” He paused. “It was many years ago, before you babies, before Angelica, even before Jazz and Sam and I were born!”
Suddenly the cabin door opened. It was Jazz. “Sorry I’m late you guys!” she cried, grabbing a chair and setting it next to Danny, “I lost track of time!”
Danny frowned, and pointed the flashlight at Sam and then at Lil.
Sam sighed. “She wanted to hear the story again too! Can you really blame her?”
“Is there anybody else coming that I don’t know about?” Danny asked, annoyed.
Sam shook her head.
“Good!” Danny cried. “Anyway, what I was about to say before I was interrupted, it happened in the college science lab. My Mom and my Dad were working on their newest invention, the ghost portal…”
J J J J
Vlad was my Dad’s lab partner, so he came to check out the designs for the cool new thing they were going to build for the science fair together. My Mom was very good with parts and stuff, so she was going help them out. I think Vlad was happy that Mom was going with them. They were really great friends. That and he really didn’t know what he was expecting.
“Now Vlad!” Jack said, as he, Maddie, and Vlad entered the science lab. “Open your eyes!”
J J J J
“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait a minute!” Sam cried.
“What is it Sam?” Danny asked, pointing the flashlight toward her.
Sam squinted as the light shone on her face. “Why were his eyes closed in the first place?”
“Dad wanted the science project to be a surprise.”
“Okay. Carry on then!”
“Well then…”
J J J J
Vlad opened his eyes, and stared at Mom and Dad’s blueprint for a long time. He didn’t know what to say. I think he might of thought that their idea was crazy or insane. He thought my parents’ idea would never work. Yet, Vlad still was supportive about it.
“It’s um, great Jack!’ he cried, still looking at the blueprint. “What is it supposed to do?”
“From my information, it’s supposed to open up a new dimension like we’ve never seen before! A dimension called the ghost zone!”
“Are you sure this will work?”
“Sure! Maddie’s got all of the things we need to build it, and the calculations to get it up and running!”
Maddie showed him the notes with all of the equations, and held up a box of tools.
Vlad smiled uneasily. “Alright, let’s get to it then.”
J J J J
“So, what eggzactly is a ghost zone?” Phil asked.
“It’s the place where all the ghosts live.” Danny answered.
Chuckie dove under the bunk bed. “T-They’re really are ghosts that haunt places?” he asked, poking his head out from under the bed.
“Yeah!” Angelica said happily. “And they’re under that bed of yours right now!”
“AAAHHHH!” Chuckie screamed, jumping back onto the bunk bed, and hiding behind Tommy.
“One more word, Angelica,” Sam started, standing up and walking toward her, “and you’ll get clunked in the side of the head and pushed into the mud!”
“Yeah?” Angelica asked, smugly. “You and what army?”
“Me and this army!” Sam cried, pointing to her right arm.
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah!”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah!”
“OH, YEAH?!”
“YES, ALREADY!”
They stuck out their tongues out at each other.
“Ooh!” Tommy exclaimed. “Who do you think is gonna blow up firstest?”
“I think Sam’s going to firstest!” Phil cried.
Lil frowned at her brother. “No way! Angelica’s going to blow up afore Sam!”
“No, Sam is!”
“Angelica is!”
“Sam!”
“Angelica!”
“Sam!”
“Angelica!”
“SAM!”
“ANGELICA!”
“You guys!” Chuckie said, nervously. “You guys! We really shouldn’t be yelling at each other like this!”
Danny and Jazz watched the babies arguing. The whole plan of telling the story to them in secret had gotten out of control!
Jazz looked at her brother. “You’d better do something quickly, Danny, before the whole camp wakes up!”
Danny nodded. But before he could say anything, they heard a huge screech coming from the woods, then a loud crash. The babies gasped. That silenced them.
“W-What was that Danny?” Chuckie asked, shaking.
“I-I don’t know!” Danny answered, gripping his flashlight with both hands, his eyes darting around the cabin. The wind blowing in from the cracked windows made him shiver. “Maybe we should continue the story later. You know, when it’s not so dark and scary out.”
“Fine by me!” Chuckie cried, crawling under his covers.
“Sure!” Tommy cried nervously, as he climbed to the top bunk on the right bunk bed.
“Alright!” Phil and Lil chorused.
“Whatever you want to do!” Sam said, pulling a flashlight out of her shorts pocket. Jazz, Angelica, and Lil followed her out the door.
“Good night, boys!” Jazz said, before she closed the door.
“Good night!” they all mumbled.
The guys all laid in silence for a while. Danny was about to turn off the light on the dresser next to his bed when Tommy stopped him.
“Danny, wait!”
Danny glanced up at Tommy from his bed.
“I need to know.” Tommy said sternly. “What happened to Vlad and your Daddy? Why aren’t you sure you want them to see each other again?”
Chuckie and Phil were also looking at Danny now. He sighed. Danny had to tell babies about what happened in a way so they would understand it.
Finally, after a few more minutes of silence, Danny finally answered. “The portal didn’t work. My Dad’s invention gave Vlad a ghostly disease. They haven’t spoken to each other since that day.”
Danny turned off the light, leaving the babies to think about this situation in the dark.
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