Choose Your Own Adventure Story: The Haunted House — Part III
OPTION C— Follow the music to the basement
(This is a choose-your-own adventure story, so if you didn’t just arrive from reading Part II, you might want to head back to this post.)
I have to follow the music. I have to know what it is — and why only I can hear it.
I run to the basement, and the music swells as I look down into the dark. I don’t really want to go into a dark and mysterious basement, but what choice do I have?
“Carlos! What are you doing?” Eliza says.
“This music — ”
“There is no music!”
I keep going. At the bottom of the basement, it’s so dark I can barely see. I move forward, nearly stubbing my toe on a piece of wood. There’s a glow up ahead, and it’s illuminating a small piece of paper on the wall. As I get closer, I can just make out the cursive writing:
This is the real curse. And it has been passed onto you.
I shiver. The real curse?
Suddenly, the music gets so loud that my head must be splitting open. I run back toward the stairs — where are Eliza and Frank? I thought they were behind me!
I know I left the door open behind me, but now the basement door is closed… and locked. “HELP! ELIZA! FRANK!” I scream, pounding on the door until my palms are raw. “I’VE BEEN CURSED!” But they can’t hear me, and I can’t hear anything but the music inside my head getting louder…
and louder…
and LOUDER.
I guess I have to face the music: I messed up bad.
CASE CLOSED.
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About the Author:
Lauren Magaziner is the author of Wizardmatch, Pilfer Academy, and The Only Thing Worse Than Witches. She is originally from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she writes full-time. Lauren is also a secret, undercover international detective — but don’t blow her cover. You can visit Lauren at http://laurenmagaziner.com/.
About Case Closed #1: Mystery in the Mansion:
Choose-your-own-adventure and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziner’s new hilarious and high-stakes middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his mom’s detective agency. In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. You pick the path — you crack the case!
