Side Note : Hewwo there :3 First of all, I'm sorry about All That Glitters, but I'm slowly but surely working on it- it will get there eventually, I promise! Second, here's my little Halloween gift to the fandom because scary holiday + the gang + Bethan is a must. Halloween basically defines the whole damn show. I'll be updating every week until Halloween, when the final chapter will be posted! Enjoy!
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"Chastise."
"To discipline, or criticize severely."
"Ten points for Gryffindor," Benny cheered, giving Ethan a wicked grin.
Their English class was in the middle of reviewing vocabulary in pairs, flash cards held up between the partners and many just giggling about it and pretending to review. Ethan was kind of junky at vocab, though, so Benny let him study without sidetracking him.
Ethan grinned back, and waited patiently for the next one.
"Tirade."
"A long, angry speech."
"I think you studied on the side, you goob."
Ethan just rolled his eyes at his best friend and took the pile, having completed to entire deck.
"So," Benny began as he shuffled the cards back into their bag. "Halloween."
Ethan looked up at him from under the shag of his bangs, eyebrow quirked upwards. "What of it, Ben?"
"We have to do something cool this year! No just sitting around and gorging on candy while watching Halloween, or Nightmare On Elm Street! We gotta go do something!"
That sounded an awful lot like a suggestion to party, and paling, the Morgan boy shook his head.
"Benny, I'm not going to a Halloween party." he stated bluntly.
Benny all but melted onto the desktop in a pile of melodrama, and widening his face up, he gave Ethan his best puppy dog face.
"But E," he whined. "Everyone'll be there!"
Ethan sighed. "I'm sure that's a slight exaggeration."
"It's not, not even a little." Benny pressed on. "Would I change your mind if I said it was at Sarah's house? On Halloween night from eight until midnight?"
Snorting, the smaller of the two smiled at Benny widely in regards to his persuasion attempts. "It's not like I like Sarah anymore."
"Or girls at all, for that matter." Benny threw out as Ethan moved to place their cards on the teacher's desk. A couple of people looked up from their groups, Rory included, and instead of blushing all Benny did was lean back cooly and grin. The stretch of his lips practically screamed 'That's right, I'm dating Ethan fucking Morgan, what're you bitches going to do about it?' like a white girl at the club, and it made a few people turn away in distaste. But Rory laughed at his friend in an all too knowing way- he'd walked in on Benny and Ethan in compromising positions more than once.
"Benny, it could be at Flash Gordon's house and I could still care less." Ethan told him honestly as he sat back down. "I'm sorry, but parties give me the hives."
"Are you sure it's not just because you have to interact with other people?" Rory asked him from across the asile, and he ducked easily as Ethan's eraser flew towards his head.
"No one has to know it's you, E." Benny pointed out. "Halloween is for costumes, and costumes equal masks, remember?"
Sighing, Ethan looked back at Benny from the small distance in between them; he wanted to protest like a child who couldn't get a toy at Walmart, rant and shout about how much he despised parties of any kind, but Benny's eyes were glowing with so much hardly contained hope and excitement that he just couldn't break his boyfriend's heart.
"Fine," Ethan drew out dramatically. "But we're not staying there the whole time, okay? I still want that scary movie and endless amounts of snacks ordeal with you."
Benny whooped quietly so not to disturb the rest of the class, and not even bothering to make sure the coast was clear, he leaned forwards and pecked Ethan on the mouth.
"You're the best, E."
Ethan practically melted into his hoodie in an effort to conceal his blush and dopey smile.
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Sarah and Erica gave each other pointed looks over their food- any more of this and they were seriously going to consider downing a glass of holy water just to end the pain.
Benny, Rory, and surprisingly, Ethan, were discussing what they should go to Sarah's party as. Or who, really.
So many of the costume ideas were geek-related that the two girls felt as though they were trapped in a never ending Comic Con discussion panel.
"I got it!" Rory shouted. "We'll go as the three hobbits- Ethan as Frodo, Benny as Sam and me as Pippin."
Benny spluttered around his water. "Rory, how the hell is that better than my suggestion? Harry Potter characters would be so much cooler- me as Harry, Ethan as Neville and you Seamus."
"Benny, you only want to go as Harry Potter characters because you're a warlock, you jackass."
Erica's eye twitched.
"Anything you want to add, Ethan?" Sarah asked, her voice and fangs alike dripping with sarcasm and irritation. "Another comment to get the pot stirring?"
"I have nothing to say on the matter anymore," Ethan told her seriously. "I'm basically going to your party against my will. No offence."
Erica's lip curled back in a grin and a sneer all in one. "That's because you can't say no to your boyfriend."
"Yes I can."
Just as Ethan said this, Benny reached for Ethan's cookies and upon asking for some, Ethan said yes almost as once and received pointed looks from the three vampires at their lunch table.
So maybe he was a little soft when it came to Benny. Could anyone blame him?
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Even though they had been there for nearly two weeks now, Ethan was still highly unimpressed by the amount of plastic and cardboard and stick-on-everything-and-all-things Halloween decorations littered all over his History class. There were smiling ghosts with large, bottomless eyes; silhouettes of witches riding around on broomsticks with straw-like hair and warts blossoming on their noses; werewolves howling at the moon; and his personal favorite, a cardboard cut out of Dracula in the corner, hovering over a fainting woman, the image completely black and white except for the blood welling up under the vampire's fangs.
Ethan's teacher, Mrs. Mayer, had always been known for her enthusiasm, but this was borderline Hoarders.
Flicking a ribbon that had fallen off the stem of a felt pumpkin hanging on the wall, Ethan sat down heavily at his desk and rifled through his backpack to grab his notebook and a pencil. His desk partner, a girl in Junior year with him named Jessica, sat down too and began shuffling around much in the same manner as Ethan was.
Suddenly, she squealed loudly and shot up from her seat, drawing everyone in the classroom's attention.
"There's a spider on my bag!" she shouted hysterically. "A real one!"
Looking over at her backpack, Ethan saw a black spider the size of a quarter creeping over the strap covered in polka dots. But midway through its crawl, as Mrs. Mayer came over to check it out, the spider stilled, and became inanimate right before Ethan's eyes. He blinked in disbelief.
Mrs. Mayer plucked the now plastic spider off of Jessica's bag, and looking at it to make sure it was fake, she chuckled.
"I think it just fell off of the cotton web on the ceiling." Mrs. Mayer told Jessica gently. "Nothing to worry about- just a trick of the lighting."
Ethan looked up to Jessica's crumpled face and watched as she blinked, as well, confusion welling up in her eyes.
"B-but- I was real! I know it was! I saw it moving and crawling over my bag!"
Mrs. Mayer simply patted her back and moved over to her fake web, stepping up onto a chair to place the spider back in its proper place.
The incident was forgotten almost at once by everyone but Ethan, and Jessica, who shared a look of skepticism.
"You saw it moving too, right?" Jessica asked him in a pained whisper.
Ethan looked over his shoulder at the web, and he studied the spider for a moment. It remained perfectly still, as a plastic, fake, completely not real spider from the decoration department should.
"I'm not sure."
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A/N: I love this story already even though this first chapter was kind of lame-o xD It was my first day of school so I'm tired but I thought this would be a nice way to unwind. Hope you liked it!
