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But—”
    “We really have to leave now,” Tristan Interrupted. “We can’t stay, Mr. Moon. Our parents will wonder what happened to us.”
    Mr. Moon pretended that Tristan hadn’t spoken. “While Angela and I are out of the room getting ready, don’t try to leave,” he said.
    “There is no way out,” Angela added. Her smile never faded. It was frozen on her round pink face. “So don’t waste your time trying to escape.”
    Her wings scraped the doorway as she followed her husband out of the room.
    As soon as they were gone, Tristan turned to theothers. “Quick—there has to be a way out.”
    “He can’t do this to us,” Ray said angrily. He clenched his hands into fists. “They’re both crazy.”
    “It has to be some kind of a sick joke,” Bella said. “Totally sick.”
    “Do they really think one of us is going to turn into a werewolf at midnight?” Rosa asked. “Do they really think they’re going to capture a werewolf and keep it locked up in that cage?”
    “Of course not,” Tristan said. “They’re just trying to scare us.” He swallowed. “And it’s working. I’m pretty freaked out.”
    “Me, too,” Bella confessed. “I mean, if they’re really crazy, who knows what they will do?”
    “And where did Michael go?” Ray asked.
    “He tried to warn us,” Tristan replied. “Remember? He kept telling us to be careful. He told us not to come here!”
    “We’re wasting time,” Rosa said. “Quick—try the front door.”
    They ran to the front door.
    Tristan reached it first and tried the knob. It wouldn’t budge.
    He turned the lock, then tried again.
    “It’s locked. This bolt won’t move,” he said. He used both hands to try to shove the heavy metal bolt. “No way.”
    Ray dove to the front window. He knocked over ajack-o’-lantern. It bounced onto its side. The candle inside sizzled out.
    Ray grabbed the metal bars over the window and tugged hard. “They’re solid,” he reported. “I can’t move them.”
    Rosa made her way to another window and pushed back the curtains. “This one has bars, too,” she said.
    She wrapped her hands around the bars and pulled. She tried pulling them apart. Then she tried tugging the bars up.
    They didn’t budge.
    “The back door!” Tristan cried. “Maybe they didn’t lock the back door.”
    Rosa spun around. “Which way?” she cried. “This way?” She pointed to the back hall.
    “There’s another hall over here,” Ray said. He took off, running through thick cobwebs, under the tangle of black and orange streamers.
    Tristan and the two girls followed close behind. Tristan’s heart was pounding. And his mouth was so dry, he couldn’t swallow.
    Please, he thought. Please, let us find a door that’s open.
    The hall was dark and narrow. Their shoes thudded on the hard floor. The hall ended at a closed wooden door.
    “Where does this lead?” Bella asked.
    “Only one way to find out,” Ray said. He grabbedthe handle and pulled open the door.
    “YAAAA-HAHAHAHAHA!”
    A cackling monster—open, jagged-toothed jaw, bulging red eyes—burst out.
    With a high shriek, it landed on Tristan and sent him sprawling to the floor.
    “NO! PLEASE—NO!” Rosa screamed.

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    It-it’s got me! Tristan struggled beneath the creature, kicking and thrashing.
    Then he realized it was light. Too light to be a living thing.
    He sat up and pushed the monster off easily.
    Tristan scrambled to his feet and stared down at the ugly creature.
    A costume.
    A Halloween costume on a big stuffed animal. A big toy dog wearing a frightening rubber mask.
    The cackling must have been on a tape or something, he realized.
    He turned to his friends. They stared down at the monster costume. They were all breathing hard, theirfaces twisted in fear.
    It fooled them, too, Tristan realized.
    Mr. Moon has us all terrified.
    “I’ll bet he has the whole house rigged with surprises like that,” Ray said.
    “He wants to scare us to death,” Bella added. “But