"Uh,ah,"said Jordie.She had a bad feeling about this.A very bad feeling.She looked up to see her mother hovering."It's for you,"Jordie said, and handed the phone over with a sense of doom.
Her mother spoke.She paused.She spoke again.She smiled.It wasn't a Grove Hill School-caliber smile.At Grove Hill School,where Jordie was a student, the smiles of the teachers could make the strongest kids whimper and the smile of the principal,Dr.Morthouse, had been known to cause first-and second-graders to burst into tears.That was just one of the reasons all the students called the school Graveyard School-that,and the old graveyard on the hill next to it,which might or might not have had anything to do with the terrifying things that happenen at the school all the time.