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This week, Melinda visits a high school for career week - not to tell them about talking to ghosts, but to tell them about being an antique dealer. Surprisingly enough, no one in the class is terribly interested in what she has to say (she probably would have had better luck telling them about her special gift of talking to dead people). But as she goes to leave, she notices that between a couple of the cheerleaders in the back of a car, there is a third cheerleader - only this one is dead.

As the car drives away, the ghost in the middle gives one of the other girls a shove and she goes flying out of the car (it's a convertible). I guess she didn't like her very much. Melinda witnesses the whole thing, and not wanting to tell everyone that she can see a new ghost, she just says that it seemed to be an accident. But naturally it means that she'll have to come back around and check out the happenings at the school.

The cheerleader coach seems a bit suspicious that she wants to hang around and talk to the girls, but of course Melinda gets past all of that, and eventually the truth starts to come out. It seems that there are three interesting things at play here.

First, the dead girl was one of the team captains from the year before who died in mysterious circumstances down in the boiler room, which seemed to be a sort of hang out for many of the kids of the school, until the fatal "accident".

Second, the girls on the cheerleading squad have been dropping like flies. This is the third "accident" in recent weeks, and if it keeps up, they won't be able to participate in the regional competition, so something is going to have to give very soon.

Finally, there is a third girl, who is now serving up coffee at the local shop, who doesn't quite seem to fit. In fact, she seems to be more interested in Melinda's line of work. But she used to be a cheerleader, so perhaps there is some sort of connection there.

After following her one night after work, Melinda finds out that she and some friends have themselves a little witches coven, and they think that they are the ones who are doing in the cheerleaders. It seems that the barista holds a grudge because she feels like she was unfairly kicked off of the squad last year. But Melinda knows the truth.

Eventually that truth starts to come out. The outcast turns out to have been so before she was kicked off the squad. Wanting to fit in, she pretended to be rich, so that they other girls would like her. When they found out that her dad was actually the butler of the house where she pretended to live, they felt that they couldn't trust her and they gave her the boot.

When the now dead cheerleader proposed that they were too harsh, she ended up alone in the boiler room and tried to climb out - but she kicked loose a steam pipe and got a blast in the face, which did her in. So in the end it was just a bad misunderstanding and an accident. Isn't that always the case?