Jin wanted to have a party.
"Mom, can I have a slumber party?" she asked her mother one evening.
"A slumber party? You mean invite some friends to sleep over at our house?" Mother said.
"Yes. May I? Please?" Jin pleaded with her mom.
The next day at school, Jin invited three of her friends to her slumber party.
"When is it?" Rachel asked.
"This Saturday. Come around four o'clock," Jin said.
"What should we bring?" Mandy asked.
"Your toothbrush and pajamas."
On the day of the slumber party, Jin was busy cleaning her room when her brother Min opened the door.
"How many girls are coming?" he asked.
"None of your business! Go away!"
Min was a troublemaker, but Jin was not worried.
No one would ruin her party─not even her brother!
At four o'clock, Rachel, Mandy, and Fran arrived at Jin's house.
"We're going to have so much fun!" The girls giggled excitedly.
"What should we do first?" Fran asked.
"Let's make cookies!" Mandy suggested.
The girls made chocolate chip cookies.
When they were ready, Min rushed into the kitchen.
"Cookies! My favorite!" he yelled and grabbed some cookies.
"Get out! Those are our cookies!" Jin shouted.
Min took some more cookies and ran out of the kitchen.
Jin had rented some videos to watch with her friends.
The girls took their cookies to the living room and sat down to watch.
The first movie was really exciting.
"Oh, what's going to happen next?" Mandy said, covering her mouth.
"Shh! This is the most important part . . ." Fran's eyes got big.
Suddenly the channel switched to a soccer game.
"What happened?" the girls cried out. Jin looked around.
There, behind the couch, was Min holding the remote control.
"Min!" Jin shouted loudly.
She went and told her parents everything Min had done.
"Min, you promised not to bother your sister and her friends," Father reminded him sternly.
"Don't even go near Jin's room! Do you understand?" Mother said.
"Stay away from us!" Jin yelled at him.
She took some pizza from the kitchen, and the girls all went up to her room to eat it.
After they ate the pizza, the four friends decided to have some fun.
"Let me do your hair!" Rachel said.
But Mandy had an even better idea. "Look what I brought!"
"Makeup!" screamed the girls.
"It's my sister's. I borrowed it for tonight!" Mandy giggled.
In no time at all, all the girls had fancy hairstyles and glamorous makeup.
"You look great!" Fran admired Rachel's eyes.
"You look like Britney Spears!" Jin said to Mandy.
Suddenly the girls all stopped and looked at each other.
"Let's make a band!" they shouted.
The girls danced and sang their favorite songs.
They were having so much fun that it was past ten o'clock before they knew it.
The friends changed into their pajamas, and Jin's parents came up to say good night.
"Don't stay up too late, girls," Jin's father said.
"If you get hungry, there's some cake in the kitchen," Mother said.
"Thank you. Good night!" the girls called out.
After Jin's parents closed the door to the room, Fran turned to the others.
"Well, good night, girls!" Fran said.
Rachel, Mandy, and Jin stared at her.
"Fran! We're going to stay up all night!" Mandy said.
"But we already did everything," Fran complained.
"We still haven't done the most exciting part of a slumber party." Rachel smiled.
"Ghost stories!" everyone screamed.
Jin went first. She told them a scary story about a woman who was murdered by her husband.
"People say they can still see her ghost searching for her husband."
"Now it's my turn," Rachel said. Rachel's story was even scarier than Jin's.
It was about a strange man who only killed girls.
"The little girl thought she was safe, but she suddenly heard footsteps.
No one ever saw that girl again."
"What . . . what did he look like?" Mandy whispered.
"They say he wore a long cloak and had spiky hair."
Rachel pulled her hair up.
"That was so scary!" Fran shivered.
"Let's take a break and have some cake," Jin suggested.
They all went down to the kitchen in the dark.
"Don't turn the lights on," Jin whispered.
"Ouch! I can't see anything," complained Mandy.
"Shh! You'll wake everyone up!" Rachel covered Mandy's mouth.
"I got the cake," Jin said quietly after they reached the kitchen.
The girls tiptoed quietly back toward Jin's room.
"What was that?" whispered Rachel.
"It's not me!" Mandy said.
They saw a strange shadow approaching.
"Oh . . . oh . . . l-look!" Fran pointed.
"It's him! He's here!" Rachel's voice quivered.
The girls screamed as loud as they could, and Jin threw the cake in the air.
When they heard the noise, Jin's parents came running.
"What's going on here?" shouted Jin's father.
The four friends were crying and holding onto each other.
"He's here! He's going to kill us!" cried Fran.
"There's nobody here," Jin's mother said.
The girls stopped crying and opened their eyes.
"But we all saw him," Mandy wiped some cream from the cake away from her eyes.
The friends looked puzzled.
Suddenly there was a sound from behind the door. It was Min.
"Is this who you saw?" smiled Jin's mother.
"Min!" screamed the girls.
"This time it wasn't your brother's fault," Father said.
Min had woken up and was thirsty.
He had gone to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"I hope you learned a lesson," Mother said.
The girls giggled and soon everyone was laughing.
"Thank you for everything," Jin said to her parents the next evening.
"Did everyone have a good time?" asked Mother.
"Oh yes! It was the best slumber party ever!" Jin smiled at everyone.
"Good. Next week we're having another one!" Mother said.
"This time it's Min's turn."