Last year only about a dozen people graduated from junior high, and half of them were missing body parts.” Not that many kids live long enough to graduate. “You’ve been here long enough to know the answer to that. “They just want to give us a chance to finish our studies,” Watch said. “We don’t all want to grow up to be rocket scientists.” “Why do they do that?” Cindy, who was also new, asked. They give you so much homework, you have to work all weekend.” “You don’t know the teachers in this town. Watch shook his head as he passed the juice to Adam. “We’ll have plenty of time to hang out and have fun.” “We’ll have the weekends free,” Adam, who was new in town, said. “We won’t have many more days like this.” “Another ten days and school starts,” Watch said, taking a deep gulp of the juice and letting out a satisfied sigh. Cindy had brought a bottle of apple raspberry juice and passed it around.
Adam, Cindy, and Watch plopped down on some boulders in the shade while Sally went off on her own. The summer was almost over but obviously the sun didn’t know. “I want to search the area one more time. “Then we can go get ice cream.”īut Sally was unconvinced. “Yes,” Cindy said and added sarcastically, “Just being out in the wilderness with you makes me tremble in my shoes.” “But strange is not necessarily good,” Cindy said. There must be something strange out here.” “Perhaps some debris from a crashed flying saucer,” Watch added.īut Sally was unconvinced. “It was probably just a trick of light,” Adam said. When they reached the spot, they searched the area without seeing anything unusual. They hiked in the direction of the supposed flash Sally had seen.
“But it’s better than being dead,” Watch said. “It’s not safe to be alive out here,” Sally said. “We should probably all go together,” Cindy said. It shouldn’t take long to hike over there.” Sally had pointed to the far side of the gully they were presently hiking through. “And you used to be so adventurous,” she said. “And we might run into a strange animal and have our internal organs ripped from our bodies,” Watch added. “If we go off the path, we’ll get all dirty.” “I don’t know,” Cindy said, fingering her long blond hair. “Obviously,” Sally said, leading the group. “It could have just been a reflection,” Cindy said, standing behind them. “Neither do I,” Watch said, removing his thick glasses and cleaning them on his shirtsleeve. “I don’t see anything,” Adam, who was shorter than the others, said. “What’s that?” she asked, brushing aside her dark bangs. The gang was only hiking in the foothills of the foothills when Sally stopped and pointed toward a sparkle in the trees, maybe a quarter of a mile off the path they were taking through a gully. However, no place in or around Spooksville was really safe. Since dealing with Pan’s leprechauns and fairies in the thick forest high in the hills overlooking the town, they had been staying closer to Spooksville, not wandering too deep into dangerous places that were hard to leave. She and her three friends-Cindy Makey, Adam Freeman, and Watch-were not far outside of Spooksville, their hometown, when they first spotted the stone. She was a strong-willed girl, and rather impulsive. But even if Sally had known, she probably would have made the same wishes anyway. The more that was asked of it, the more it demanded in return. That was probably the same reason she suffered more than the others from the stone. For that reason she felt it belonged mainly to her. Sally Wilcox saw the Wishing Stone first.
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