Chapter 1 Meet Mandy

Chapter 1

       Mandy pulled a milk out of the fridge. She shook it then shook her head in disgust. She went over to the sink and poured it out. Chunks of Who-Knows-What came flowing out with the milk. Figures, she thought, I wonder how old this thing is. Oh well, I guess I don’t need any breakfast, don’t have the time for it anyway. She sighed and put the milk carton in the trashcan. She was almost out of the kitchen when she thought she hear a noise.

       “I am the box ghost! Fear me!” Mandy whirled around and saw a weird blue guy in a “gangster” outfit. The part that really creeped her out was that the milk carton she had just thrown away was floating in the air and she had the weird feeling that the “box ghost” was controlling it.

       “How did you get out of the Fenton Thermos again?” Mandy looked around and saw another floating guy.

       She hit her head and muttered, “please don’t tell me I actually drank the milk after it spoiled.”

       “You cannot keep me in a shiny round box, I am the box ghost! I control the boxes,” the blue guy said.

       “Good thing this isn’t a box then isn’t it,” the other ghost said and with a flash of blue light the blue guy (and the stinky milk carton) were sucked into a seriously over-mechanicalized thermos.

       “I really have to get more sleep,” Mandy told herself.

       “Oh no,” she heard the ghost say, “Somebody was here the whole time?!”

       “Ung, yeah, definitely going back to bed.” Mandy saw the ghost “sneaking” out the wall.

       “Did I hear someone?” Max, Mandy’s brother, yawned as he walked down the stairs.

       “Only figments of my imagination.”

       “Oh yeah?”

       “Yeah.”

       “Then tell your ‘figments’ to keep it down ’cause people are trying to sleep over here.”

       Mandy rolled her blue eyes, “You know, you’ve only got ten minutes ’till the bus leaves.”

       “Bus?”

       “Yes sleepy-head, ‘bus’.”

       “Oh man! I totally forgot!” Max looked at his watch, then slapped his face. “Awwwwww. Look at the time!”

       “I did, never seems to be enough of that does there?”

       “No,” Max practically whimpered. It took Mandy great effort not to laugh at him.

       “C’mon Mandy, you need to be on the bus too you know.”

       “I do? Oh no! I do!” Mandy rushed around the house stuffing everything in her backpack as if she wanted to take the whole house with her to school. Luckily the bus stop was right in front of her house so she didn’t have to go far when the bus came.

       As she got onto the bus she got really nervous. It was her first day at Casper High, even though they were in the middle of the school year. She sighed and tried to calm herself, but the worries kept coming. What if she didn’t make any friends? What if she never made any friends because she was so nerdy? What if- what if- what if? Her brother didn’t even sit around her and instead went to the back of the bus with all his “buddies”, she was alone in a crowd of strange people.