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Hello?

Mr. Prenderghast?

Ugh!

Oh, come on.

Darn it.

Let go!

Come on!

Ah!

This is it.

Read from the book, stop the curse, go home, and pretend this never happened.

“Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a king and a queen in a magnificent castle.

What?

A fairy tale?

Ooh, what have you got there, Geekula?

No!

Give it back!

Oh, I can’t wait to see everybody’s faces when they hear about this one.

No, no.

Don’t!

Alvin!

Hey.

Nobody makes me miss out on a possible date with a girl that almost had some interest in talking to me.

Yeah?

Thought so!

You got nothing to say.

Uh-oh.

Dang straight, “Uh-oh.

That’s what happens when Alvin gets around here.

“Uh-oh, is that Alvin?

“Uh-oh, Alvin’s going to make me run home to Mommy.

Uh-oh.

What is that?

It’s her.

What’s that sound?

Ah!

“Once upon a time, in a far-off.

“Once upon a time, in a.

Make it stop, please, now please!

It’s not working!

Stop!

Stop?

You must stop!

What?

Norman?

What are you doing?

I think I peed my pants!

Wait!

Neil!

Will you get the door?

I’m busy.

Are you freeze-framing Mom’s aerobics DVD again?

No!

Oh, I’m going to kill them!

I know you’re in there!

Slumber party is over, dorks!

Um, can I help you?

Hell, yeah.

Hmm.

Oh, I.

Sorry to bug you so late.

Um, does, uh.

Neil live here?

Yeah.

He’s my brother.

Oh, wow!

That’s great!

Your brother and my brother are, like, best friends!

I’m Courtney.

Hey, Neil!

Come here a minute.

There’s a girl asking for you.

Hey, there!

How are you doing, little guy?

Neil?

Yeah, Neil.

Do you know where Norman is?

He kind of disappeared.

Oh, no.

Idea!

I have no idea where he is.

Sorry.

Bye!

Whoa, Neil.

Better start talking, buddy.

I didn’t really think he was serious about going up to the old graveyard on his own.

That’s so Norman!

Oh, man, that place is bad news.

It’s like a total slasher-movie vibe.

Why did he go up there?

I don’t know.

Maybe we should go look for him.

I told you he was trouble.

Sorry, but I did.

No, it’s fine.

He sucks.

But I got to make sure he doesn’t, you know, die or anything tonight.

Will you help me?

Please?

Okay.

I guess I should go get some clothes on.

Mmm!

Uh, is Norman in trouble?

Are they going to try to eat our brains?

I think you’ll be safe.

Oh, thank God!

I don’t get it.

Why didn’t it work?

The Story of Sleeping Beauty?

This doesn’t make any sense!

Wait!

Where are you going?

Mr. Prenderghast, I don’t understand.

Just tell me what to do!

Dude, what are you doing?

He told me to read from the book to stop the curse!

I thought it was like a spell or something, but.

Come on.

There has to be something.

I really need to get home because I’ve got a seriously early curfew.

Okay, seven victims.

My mom gets really upset.

Seven victims.

Oh, no.

Okay, got to defend ourselves.

We got to shoot them in the head with, like, some sort of silver stake or something.

Seven victims.

I’m way too awesome to get eaten.

Seven graves.

Norman, are you listening to me?

You really got to do something!

The witch’s grave!

It wasn’t there!

I was reading the book in the wrong place!

Hide!

What?

Huh?

Come on!

And she said, “I could totally consider a career in formation swimming.

But I was like, “I want to do something that helps people less fortunate than me, thank you very much.”

You know?

Like, um.

Like the poor.

Or people who are dying, or ugly or something.

Because I really think that ecology and world peace are, like, totally important today.

Do you use free weights?

Because your deltoids are huge!

I’ve never used deltoids in my life, I swear.

You can test me.

Kill me now.

Thank you for doing this, Mitch.

He means an awful lot to me, you know?

I love him like he was a brother.

He is your brother.

Whoa!

Look at that sky!

Look out!

Oh, no!

That was Norman!

Is everyone okay?

No.

No.

Uh, hello, sir?

Is he dead or what?

I don’t know.

He’s not moving.

He’s still breathing!

So, he’s okay?

Uh.

Not exactly.

What?

What did you just say?

Does anyone know CPR or.

Run!

Did you see that?

That was insane.

I know, right?

I kicked that, like, a hundred yards!

Norman, what just happened?

Zombies!

I swear, okay?

We saw them burst out of their graves for real!

Just so you know, I totally saved his life, and I could totally save yours.

Sorry, who are you?

I’m Alvin.

Guys?

Maybe we should actually drive away now.

Oh, right.