خیابان های پارک وحشت فصل 12

Streets of Panic Park - Chapter 12

“No. Please —” I choked out.

Michael bumped me again.

“Leave her alone!” Luke shouted. “We’re not spies!”

Michael spun around and leaned over Luke. “We don’t know you,” he shouted. “You’re not Special Guests. You arrived just in time to follow us to Panic Park.” Boone stepped up beside Michael. He scowled at me. “Michael is right. Why are you and your brother here? You’re working for The Menace — aren’t you!” “You’re WRONG!” I screamed. I shoved Michael back. “You’re wrong about Luke and me. We’re the ones who tried to warn you — remember?” They stared at me. Michael lowered his fists.

“I tried to warn you about Panic Park,” I said. “I said we should all stay in HorrorLand. But then Jillian pretended to read my mind. Remember? She said I was lying.” Luke chimed in: “Now we all know who was lying. It was Jillian. So leave my sister alone.” Michael angrily gazed around the room. “Who else is a spy? Who else is a traitor?”

Carly Beth grabbed him by the shoulders. “Michael, listen to me,” she said softly, calmly. “We’re in terrible danger. We have to trust each other.” “She’s right,” her friend Sabrina said. “We can’t stand here arguing and turning on each other. We have to get out of here!” Michael grumbled to himself. Then he let out a sigh and dropped beside Matt on the bench.

“We’re in a horrible jam,” Carly Beth said. “If we survive The Menace’s scares, he wins. Panic Park returns to the real world. Imagine the terrible things he could do then!” “But what choice do we have?” Robby asked. “NOT to survive?”

“If we survive, we help him,” I said. “And if we don’t survive … we’re DEAD.”

“There’s one more choice,” Matt said. “We get OUT of here.”

He jumped to his feet. “If we escape Panic Park, The Menace loses!” he said. He pointed to the Fear Meter against the wall. “If we can get ourselves back to HorrorLand before that meter hits one hundred, The Menace loses big-time. His park is stuck here in 1974.” “But how?” Sheena asked in a trembling voice. “How can we escape? Look at my brother. Billy is a shadow. If The Menace can do something like that to us, how can we ever hope to escape?” “Matt is totally right,” Michael said, jumping up. “So The Menace is powerful. And evil. And crazy. That doesn’t mean we just sit here and wait for him to terrify us. We’ve got to ACT!” Matt bolted toward the door. “Let’s go.”

“It’s probably locked,” Carly Beth said. “And The Menace is probably listening to every word we say.” “We’ve got to try,” Matt said.

We trotted after him. He grabbed the brass doorknob. Twisted it and pulled.

The door swung open.

“Not locked!” Carly Beth cried. “Did Byron forget?”

“Or is it a trap?” Julie asked.

Her words sent a chill down my back. But I knew we didn’t have a choice.

Matt stepped out into the hall. I took a deep breath — and followed him.