at the thought of it All of it As the school's shadow poured over the bus Fred shuddered This school is so spooky Fred said Spooky Luisa said No way It's gorgeous Fred rolled his eyes Of course you'd say that Fred said Princesses love their castles And of course you're scared Luisa said Frankensteins run from theirs Fred cracked a smile as Luisa leaned over to peek out the window I mean look how the ivy creeps and crawls up the bricks Luisa said And those weird windows I wonder what's in that attic 2
Fred craned his neck to see the tiny windows at the top of the school's central tower One window hung open just slightly on its hinges Another sported a spiderweb crack across it Another seemed covered by a sheer curtain that suddenly moved A body appeared and disappeared behind it as quickly as it arrived Fred jumped Did you see that Fred asked See what Drake said popping up from the seat in front of them It looked like like Fred wanted to say like someone peeking out But Fred already had enough to be nervous about today The last thing he needed was to worry about people peeping out of a creepy school attic 3
tower Finding a ghost and his laboratory in his own school's attic had been quite enough for one lifetime So Fred just smiled at Drake and said Nothing Just the ivy I think And Fred tried to believe it After all Luisa had a point about the ivy It was pretty cool Fred rested his head against the bus window and followed a single strand of ivy up the bricks It wasn't gorgeous but he did like how the twisted and tangled vines leaned in on each other Like they were working together to climb the wall Except one strand got higher than all the others Not the one he followed though That one got tangled and lost in a mess of green Dead leaves gathered in its vines as 5
