Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go Read Online Free PDF

The bathroom looked normal, except for the blue potion. The ghost was gone. “I think we did it,” she said, peering around.

    Bean squinted. “Is it gone?” “Yes,” said Ivy. “Expelled. Never to return.”
    “I’m sort of sad that it’s over,” said Bean. “It was fun having a haunted bathroom.”

    “But we still have to do the presents,” said Ivy, taking her fossil and Zuzu’s hairclip out of her pocket.
    Bean took out her half-dollar. “How are we going to—” she began.
    And then there was a bang on the door.

EXPELLED
    It was Leo’s soccer ball.
    Bean started for the door.
    “No! No! The presents!” hissed Ivy. She stuffed the jar in the trash can and rushed into a stall.
    Bean rushed after her. “What’re you doing?!”
    Ivy was throwing the fossil and Zuzu’s hairclip into the toilet. “Give me your half-dollar,” she said. “Quick!”
    Bean handed it to her. Ivy threw that into the toilet, too. “But why are you putting them in the—?” Bean began.
    The bathroom door wheezed open.
    “How else are we going to get them underground?” Ivy whispered. She flushed.
    “Come out here this instant!”
    They knew that voice. It wasn’t Rose the Yard Duty. It was Mrs. Noble.
    Ivy and Bean came out of the stall. Mrs. Noble’s wrinkles were all pointing downward in a terrible frown. “Just what do you think you’re doing in here?!” she boomed.
    “Going to the bathroom?” said Ivy. It was all she could think of. She glanced at Bean. Help!
    “There are thirty children huddled out in the hall staring at this bathroom like it’s a television. I know you’re up to something!” Mrs. Noble snapped. “You can tell me, or you can tell the Principal!” She reached out and grabbed Bean by the shoulder. Her fingers were like claws.

    “We just had to—to—” Bean had no idea what she was going to say next.
    Then they heard something.
    A groan.
    A grinding. A gurgling.
    A sound of water.
    And then, from the toilet, a river of water came spilling and splashing over the side and onto the tiles. There was a lot of it, and it didn’t stop coming. Something under the floor was making a lot of noise.

    The water ran over the sides of the toilet and streamed across the tile floor. Mrs. Noble let go of Bean’s shoulder and took a step backward. The water flowed toward her red high heels, and she stepped back again.
    “We heard the toilet making a funny noise,” said Ivy, watching the water roll across the floor. “We were trying to fix it when you came in.”
    “But it’s still broken,” said Bean.

    The toilet water sloshed around their shoes.
    “It’s kind of gross, isn’t it?” said Ivy to Mrs. Noble.
    “At least there’s no you-know-what in it,” said Bean.
    Mrs. Noble didn’t answer. She hopped backward, but the water touched her red high heels anyway. “Disgusting!” She hopped. “Disgusting! I’ll call the janitor! Uck!” She hopped again, yanked the door open, and was gone.

    Ivy and Bean stepped into the breezeway, their shoes making wet marks on the cement. Leo was leaning against the wall with his soccer ball under his arm.
    Most of the others were still sitting on the benches.
    “Well?” said Emma. “What happened?”
    “The ghost has been expelled,” said Ivy. “But it wasn’t easy.”
    “Mrs. Noble
ran
,” said Vanessa.
    Bean shrugged. “She was scared. She couldn’t take it.”
    “Well, she came in during a very scary part,” Ivy said. “That ghost really wanted to stay in the bathroom.”
    “What did it look like?” Eric asked.
    Ivy looked at Bean. “Strange. Pale.”
    Bean looked at Ivy. “Almost like water.”
    “Like water?” said Emma. “Weird.”
    “So it’s gone?” said Zuzu. “For good?”
    “Yes,” said Ivy. “But I wouldn’t go in there for a while.”
    “The bathroom got kind of messed up,” said Bean.
    The second-graders looked toward the bathroom door. They were quiet, thinking about the bathroom and Mrs. Noble and the