"Are you?"

"No."

"Are you?"

"Why would I be?""Are you?"

"Cool."

"What the heck does that mean Lee?""Oh, no, I'm not scared," said Lee, the yo-yo going up and down in his hand.

Patton sighed. Sometimes Lee's language of "cool/not cool" got annoying.

"So why should you be scared?" Patton asked, turning to Hoagie.

"Who-who said I was?" Hoagie replied.

"You're shaking like a Chihuahua," Nigel pointed out.

"Oh," Hoagie said.

"Are we going in or not?" Wally asked, irritated.

The boys turned to the haunted house they were standing in front of. It was a few hours past midnight on Halloween, and the girls were having a sleepover back at the treehouse. So it was just them on the street that no one went down anymore.

"Come on," Patton said. The boys followed him inside. The door promptly shut behind them. "Cool," Lee said in awe.

"Cliché haunted house," Nigel remarked. The fivesome crept up the staircase. Suddenly they heard a girl's scream.

"AAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!""Sonya?" Lee cried, looking around.

Another shriek came, pounding through the room. "AAAAAAAAAH!"

"Kuki!" Wally cried out. "It sounds like she's in trouble!"

Abby's and Fanny's screams pierced the air.

"We have to save them!" Patton cried.

"Oh come on," Nigel said. "Don't you think it's-"

A new scream came. Nigel went pale.

"Rachel?"

He took off running towards where the scream had come from. The rest of the boys ran after him. The girls' screams kept coming, terrifying and freaking out the boys even more with each one.

"Rachel! Rachel!" Nigel shouted over and over, blindly running forwards.

"Kuki!" Wally was calling out.

"Sonya? Where are you?" Lee was yelling. He knew that Sonya was scared of a lot of things, so it might be nothing, but if Abby and Fanny were screaming too, it had to be something important.

"Abby?"

"Fanny!"

"Rachel! Rachel! Rachel!"

Suddenly, the screaming stopped. The room they had entered- a ballroom, no less- started to fill with smoke. The light dimmed and turned green. Five figures lowered from the ceiling. Flashes of light shot colors across them. Bright red, blue, and black. Green and orange. Orange, teal, and blonde. Green and black. And in the center, pink, purple, and blonde. The pink-purple-blonde figure started laughing, deeply and sinisterly.

"Sonya!" Lee cried out, dropping to his knees, the yo-yo falling out of his hand.

Suddenly the lights went up and the figures threw up their sheets, revealing Abby, Fanny, Rachel, Kuki, and Sonya in the center. They laughed.

"Gotcha!" Abby cried, and smoothly fell from her place.

"Stupid boys!" Fanny laughed, unhooking herself.

"That's what you get for sending those fake bugs across our sleepover!" Kuki said, struggling to get out of her harness.

"Not cool!" Lee said. He took a look at Sonya and smiled. He started laughing as he helped her down.