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"What? Um, no"

"Good Bacon is in the s on We have about half an hour, then we ood," Vanessa said

He stood and walked around to the oven, tested his fry pan and poured the egg mixture into it, then added chopped onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomato

"So, you are a cook," she said

He turned to her "And you ht pop that bread in the toaster, if you like"

"Aye, aye, captain"

"Ah, such a reply is necessary only on a boat!" he teased

Vanessa popped the toast into the toaster As she did so, she had the strange sensation that so in that direction, frowning

"Is there a draft in the house?" she asked

He shrugged "A ghost--so I’ve been told"

Vanessa smiled "Really?"

"It’s actually a very old place, you know But I think there was a structure here before, long, long ago, when the pirates were at their heyday Real butter? Or the fake spray stuff?"

"What?"

"Which do you prefer?"

"Real butter"

"In the refrigerator I heard it’s not really that bad for you unless you consus in moderation, so they say"

He added cheese to the oot the butter and spread it on the toast There was orange juice in the refrigerator, and she poured a glass for each of them He directed her to the microwave as he flipped the omelet, slid it onto a plate and separated it to slide half onto a second plate They set it all on the counter and took their seats again

"Do you have a copy of your original script with you?" he asked her "The script you wrote for the movie"

"Sure It’s still in ive me a rundown?"

"We started fro up to take a trip out to Haunt Island The usual college-age crew--Jay was hoping to reel in the seventeen-to twenty-one-year-old crowd There was the good girl, the one you liked, the nerd…you know, the usual slasher cast We had perether at the dock They went diving at Pirate Cut, and they made fun of the story of Dona Isabella, and drew up silly pictures of Mad Miller and Kitty Cutlass Then they did this ridiculous thing, like a game of Bloody Mary, but they called up Mad Miller The first death occurs when one of the kids sees a wooes to help her, but when he turns her over, her face is skeletal and eaten away When he shrieks and tries to get away, the sea ghost of Mad Miller drags hi true teen-slasher flick," she said, gri to break in--and ," Sean said "Many a director has cut his teeth on a slasher flick, and sos on that alone" He seehtful as he munched on his toast "Go on"

"Well, the rest on board are terrified, of course, and they try to perform a ritual that will let the poor murdered Dona Isabella rest--and send Mad Miller and Kitty Cutlass to hell One by one they end up dead as the boat limps toward the closest land--Haunt Island Of course, the heroine, Georgia Dare, is so of a scholar and she discovers that Haunt Island here everyone was massacred In the script, Mad Miller and Kitty Cutlass coia and her boyfriend--Travis, of course--find a way to raise the massacred dead, and they come to life and destroy Mad Miller and Kitty Cutlass, and then sink back into the sand Simple, basic--some history, soory teen fare"