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worried about walking
this corridor again.’
    Her twin smiled at her. ‘That doesn’t mean I’m
looking forward
to it, though.’
    Ivy gave her a nudge, pointing at her pale pink witch costume. ‘Besides, you’ve got the scariest outfit!’
    ‘Ha ha.’ Olivia rolled her eyes, but her lips twitched. ‘Just because you have an unnatural fear of the colour pink . . .’ She squeezed Ivy’s hand and started
forwards.
    Ivy wasn’t about to be taken off guard again the way she had been last night.
No more bunny hops for me!
Still, she couldn’t help but be impressed by Camilla’s skill
as the girls had to dodge shuffling zombies, groaning ghosts and bandaged mummies. Luckily, the models were all on just the right side of “too scary” . . .
    Well, except for those five! Models don’t breathe . . . or stink. Camilla definitely didn’t put these ones here!
    Ivy narrowed her eyes, using her vampire super-sight to pick out the five boys huddled together in the shadows of the next room, still as statues, obviously waiting to jump out and scare
them.
    ‘Come on, Josh,’ she yelled. She would have recognised the closest as the meanest boy in their high school by his repulsive stench, even if she hadn’t had vamp-vision.
‘Don’t you have anything better to do? You’re not even in costume!’
    ‘Oh, yeah?’ Shaking back his lank hair, Josh stalked forwards, his long, leather trenchcoat swishing around him. From the smirk on his face, he wasn’t even the slightest bit
put out by being recognised. And he wasn’t ready to back down, either.
    Ivy crossed her arms, giving him a death-squint.
Unbelievable.
His hair had somehow managed to achieve an even greater state of “greasy” than it ever had before.
    ‘What do you think, guys?’ Josh asked his cronies as they emerged from the shadows behind him. ‘Do we have somewhere better to be? Or would we rather stay . . . right . . .
here?’
    The boy just behind him gave a snort of laughter, and Ivy’s eyes widened.
    Uh-oh.
This, she hadn’t expected. It looked like Josh’s new main henchman was Garrick Stephens. She hadn’t seen him since he’d started at the other high school
in town, but he had been the head “Beast” at Franklin Grove Middle School, his gang of vamp boys all doing their best to make every other kid in school miserable.
    ‘I’ve been hearing stories about you from my crew,’ Josh told Ivy, his smirk widening. He looked her up and down, then said to Garrick, ‘So, this was the girl you kissed
in the school play last semester?’
    ‘Nope.’ Garrick gave a goofy grin as he pointed straight to Olivia. ‘It was the other one.’
    ‘
Int-er-est-ing
,’ Josh drawled. His eyes gleamed dangerously as he turned to Olivia.
    ‘Hey!’ Ivy sidestepped to stand protectively in front of her twin, but Olivia quickly stepped around her, face scrunched up in outrage.
    ‘I did
not
kiss Garrick!’ she declared. ‘Camilla’s script for
Romezog and Julietron
said I was
supposed
to kiss him as part of the play, but .
. .’ She glared at Garrick, who was still grinning at her. ‘ . . . thankfully he had to run offstage early in the performance because he’d gone off-script!’
    ‘That’s right,’ Ivy said. ‘Plus, he was itching all through the whole show!’ She gave Josh a smirk, hoping that it looked just as rude as the one he’d been
aiming at her sister. ‘But then, you probably get that, too, don’t you? You seem to have the same lax approach to personal hygiene.’
    ‘Ha!’ Josh snickered, turning to Garrick. ‘You got put in your place, dude.’
    ‘Aw, Josh . . .’
    Seriously?
Ivy stared at the head of the greasy gang.
You didn’t even notice that I was insulting you
,
too?
    ‘Come on.’ Josh jerked his head towards the South Wing of the museum, where the party was waiting. ‘We’ve got cooler places to be. But you . . .’ His gaze landed on
Ivy, and his face hardened. Suddenly, Ivy was very certain that