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Buffy Vine’s favourite thing in the world was scaring people. She liked nothing better than giving her friends a really good fright! She loved popping out of cupboards with a monster mask over her face and making her mum jump. It made her giggle to creep up on her little brother when he was watching television and shout, “BOO!” But most of all she loved scaring her best friends, Tina and Lucy.

The day Aunt Sarah announced she was going to get married, Buffy gave Tina and Lucy a really scary fright. She’d been to the joke shop at the weekend and bought two wicked things – a big black spider and a red plastic eyeball! On Monday morning Buffy put them into her school bag … she had plans for both of them.

At playtime Buffy hid in the girls’ toilets and waited for her class to run out into the playground. When everything was quiet she crept out of her hiding place and sneaked into the cloakroom, where all the packed lunch boxes were stacked up on a table. She easily found her friends’ lunch boxes; Tina’s had stars all over it and Lucy’s had dinosaurs. Checking that nobody was watching, Buffy opened Tina’s box and slipped the black spider in between Tina’s ham sandwiches. Giggling to herself, she unscrewed Lucy’s flask and dropped the red eyeball into her apple juice – then quickly screwed the lid back on.

When lunchtime came Buffy made sure she was sitting directly opposite Tina and Lucy when they opened their lunch boxes.

“What have you got in your sandwiches today?” she asked Tina.

“I’ve got ham salad,” Tina started to say, but she never got to the end of the sentence. Her eyes grew wide in horror as she stared down at the huge black spider sitting on her sandwiches. “AHHHH!” she screamed, and throwing the box on to the floor, she ran out of the dining room.

“Hey, what’s spooked Tina?” said Lucy, as she poured out her apple juice.

As Lucy tipped the flask, Buffy covered her mouth with a hand to stop herself from bursting out laughing. Suddenly, the big red eyeball plopped into Lucy’s glass!

“Ahhhhh!” Lucy screamed, as she dropped her flask and apple juice spilt all over the floor.

“Please stop screaming in the dining room,” called the dinner lady crossly.

Tina and Lucy were furious with Buffy.

“That was a really mean trick,” grumbled Tina. “You know I hate spiders.”

“One day we’ll get our own back on you for all your scary tricks,” Lucy promised.

“Yes,” Tina agreed. “One day we’ll really scare YOU!”

“Ha, ha, ha! I bet you don’t!” Buffy laughed.