Read Online 09 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare by R.L. Stine - (ebook by Undead) - Free Book Online

shoulders.
    “Dawn—what are you doing here?” I whispered, settling onto my knees.
    Before Dawn could reply, another figure in a bathing suit moved quickly from
the bushes, crouching low. It was Dawn’s friend Dori.
    “We swam over. Early this morning,” Dori whispered, nervously pushing at her
curly red hair. “We waited here. In the bushes.”
    “But it’s not allowed,” I said, unable to hide my confusion. “If you’re
caught—”
    “We had to talk to you,” Dawn interrupted, raising her head to peek over the
top of the bushes, then quickly ducking back down.
    “We decided to risk it,” Dori added.
    “What—what’s wrong?” I stammered. A red-and-black bug crawled up my shoulder.
I brushed it away.
    “The girls’ camp. It’s a nightmare,” Dori whispered.
    “Everyone calls it Camp Nightmare instead of Camp Nightmoon,” Dawn
added. “Strange things have been happening.”
    “Huh?” I gaped at her. Not far from us in the water, I could hear the shouts
and splashes of the swim race beginning. “What kinds of strange things?”
    “Scary things,” Dori replied, her expression solemn.
    “Girls have disappeared,” Dawn told me. “Just vanished from sight.”
    “And no one seems to care,” Dori added in a trembling whisper.
    “I don’t believe it!” I uttered. “The same thing has happened here. At the
boys’ camp.” I swallowed hard. “Remember Mike?”
    Both girls nodded.
    “Mike disappeared,” I told them. “They removed his stuff, and he just
disappeared.”
    “It’s unbelievable,” Dori said. “Three girls are gone from our camp.”
    “They announced that one was attacked by a bear,” Dawn whispered.
    “What about the other two?” I asked.
    “Just gone,” Dawn replied, the words catching in her throat.
    I could hear whistles blowing in the water. The race had ended. Another one
was being organized.
    The sun disappeared once again behind high white clouds. Shadows lengthened
and grew darker.
    I told them quickly about Roger and Jay and the attack at the Forbidden Bunk.
They listened in openmouthed silence. “Just like at our camp,” Dawn said.
    “We have to do something,” Dori said heatedly.
    “We have to get together. The boys and the girls,” Dawn whispered, peering
once again over the tops of the leaves. “We have to make a plan.”
    “You mean to escape?” I asked, not really understanding.
    The two girls nodded. “We can’t stay here,” Dawn said grimly. “Every day
another girl disappears. And the counselors act as if nothing is happening.”
    “I think they want us to get killed or something,” Dori added with
emotion.
    “Have you written to your parents?” I asked.
    “We write every day,” Dori replied. “But we haven’t heard from them.”
    I suddenly realized that I hadn’t received any mail from my parents, either.
They had both promised to write every day. But I had been at camp for nearly a
week, and I hadn’t received a single piece of mail.
    “Visitors Day is next week,” I said. “Our parents will be here. We can tell
them everything.”
    “It may be too late,” Dawn said grimly.
    “Everyone is so scared!” Dori declared. “I haven’t slept in two nights. I
hear these horrible screams outside every night.”
    Another whistle blew, closer to shore. I could hear the swimmers returning.
Morning swim was ending.
    “I—I don’t know what to say,” I told them. “You’ve got to be careful. Don’t
get caught.”
    “We’ll swim back to the girls’ camp when everyone has left,” Dawn said. “But
we have to meet again, Billy. We have to get more guys together. You know. Maybe
if we all get organized…” Her voice trailed off.
    “There’s something bad going on at this camp,” Dori said with a shiver,
narrowing her eyes. “Something evil.”
    “I—I know,” I agreed. I could hear boys’ voices now. Close by. Just on the
other side of the leafy bushes. “I’ve got to go.”
    “We’ll try to meet here again the day after tomorrow,” Dawn whispered. “Be
careful, Billy.”
    “You be careful,” I whispered. “Don’t