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vampires by holding this up – then they got scared and ran away.”
    Fliss and Rosie made some weedy gulping noises. I moved further into the chapel to take a closer look. Frankie and Lyndz came with me, whilst Fliss and Rosie hung round the door.
    “What’s that?” Lyndz whispered, pointing up to a dark shape hanging from the exposed beams of the ceiling.
    “Dunno.” Frankie went to inspect further. Then she went kind of pale and started to back out of the chapel.
    “Bats!” she shrieked when she was by the door. “Loads of them!”
    We started screaming and running all at the same time.
    When we were back at the house we collapsed in our bedroom. Thank goodness we could lock the door this time – the locksmith had sorted out the problem.
    “Everything adds up,” I gasped. “The noises we heard, the cross, the bats. I reckon we did stumble upon some vampires the other night.”
    “Shouldn’t we tell someone?” Fliss asked frantically.
    “No way! Besides, I think Uncle Bob knows,” I told them. “Remember how he told us to go to the chapel? Maybe he’s testing us out. We’ve got to get ourselves prepared with crosses and stakes and go down there and slay ourselves some vampires!”
    “Not tonight?” Rosie looked alarmed.
    “Nope, tonight we’ve got another mission to accomplish,” I reminded them. “Tonight we’re going to scare Molly and Carli witless!”
    You know when you’re really up for something but you’ve got to wait for the right time to do it? Well, it’s like time goes on strike, isn’t it? Every minute just stretches out in front of you. Even listening to Uncle Bob’s stories wasn’t so much fun because we were so keen to get on with some action of our own.
    We went to bed ahead of everyone else and ran through our plan one last time. Then it was just a case of waiting until Molly and Carli came upstairs before we could sneak out to the attic.
    “What if Ben and Spike wake up? Mum might rumble what we’re up to.” Lyndz looked anxious. “And she’s been so great since she’s been here, I don’t want her relapsing into one of her moods again.”
    “Look Lyndz, that’s a chance we’ll have to take,” I said firmly. “We know where the boys’ bedroom is – we’ll just have to make extra sure that we don’t make any sound when we walk over it. Ready?”
    The others nodded. “Ready.”
    We wrapped ourselves in our dressing gowns and crept out into the passageway. The others crept towards the door leading to the attic and I went to Molly and Carli’s room.
    “Mum says you’re to turn off your tape and go to sleep NOW!” I shouted through the door. “She’s still mad with you about our bedroom door. And if you don’t shut up she says you’ll have to miss out on the party.”
    “You creep!” Molly yelled back, but within seconds she’d turned off her music and the lamps.
    “We’d better do what the scumbag says,” I heard Molly whisper. “She’ll probably grass us up otherwise, and there’s no way I’m missing that party!”
    I put my thumbs up to the others and crept to join them.
    Now I’m glad that we have torches as part of our sleepover kit, because we certainly needed them up there in the attic. It was so dark you just couldn’t see anything in front of you. And cold too! Somehow it seemed so much bigger than it had done in the daytime.
    “We must be there by now!” whispered Rosie. “Are you sure we haven’t passed the packing cases we used to mark out Molly’s room?”
    “No way!”
    “Listen!” Lyndz suddenly hissed. “Isn’t that Spike crying?”
    We all held our breath. If Lyndz’s mum came to check on him, as sure as eggs is eggs she’d check on us too. Molly wasn’t the only one who might be missing the party!
    “It’s OK, I think he must just be having a dream,” Lyndz sighed with relief when there was silence below us again.
    “Well at least we know that Molly’s room isn’t too far away,” Frankie whispered.