The Confession (15 page)

Everyone in the room agreed.

But there was one confession still to come.

♦ ♦ ♦

Two weeks later, Vincent and I were walking home from school when he suddenly leaned close and said in a low voice, “Julie, I have a confession to make.”

A confession?

Oh no! Please—no!
I thought.
One more confession and I'll scream!

I held my breath. I shut my eyes. “Confession? What's your confession?” I asked hesitantly.

“I've had a crush on you since third grade,” Vincent confessed.

I screamed.

About the Author

R.L. Stine invented the teen horror genre with Fear Street, the bestselling teen horror series of all time. He also changed the face of children's publishing with the mega-successful Goosebumps series, which
Guinness World Records
cites as the Best-Selling Children's Books ever, and went on to become a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. The first two books in his new series Mostly Ghostly,
Who Let the Ghosts Out?
and
Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?
are
New York Times
bestsellers. He's thrilled to be writing for teens again in the brand-new Fear Street Nights books.

R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the National Education Association Read Across America. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, and their dog, Nadine.

A Parachute Press book

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Designed by Sammy Yuen Jr.

The text of this book was set in Times.

First Simon Pulse edition June 2005

Library of Congress Control Number 2004112717

ISBN 1-4169-0322-4

ISBN 13: 978-1-4424-6643-2 (ebook)