Hey all here is Ch.5 enjoy! -kj
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TrIcK or tReAt
Ch.5. Halloween fun
It was 6:30pm; I was just finishing up drying the last of the dinner dishes. My mom had already retreated to her room for the evening and my dad was in the den, or as I like to call it his bedroom. He and my mom hadn't slept in the same room for weeks now. When he started sleeping on the couch I knew things were getting worse. It was eerily quite in the house tonight, it seemed so weird to not her my parents bickering. I finish drying out the last bowl, threw the dishrag into the sink and darted up the stair. When I opened my closet doors I realized I had no idea what to wear. I remembered Eli saying something about dressing comfortably. I rummaged through the shirts finally deciding on a baby blue v-neck sweater with my cream colored camisole underneath. I grabbed a pair of dark blue jeans to go with it. I quickly got changed into my attire for the evening and examined myself in the mirror. Content with my wardrobe choices I headed to the bathroom to touch up the make-up I had worn to school that day. As I headed out of my bedroom I grabbed my sneakers and jean jacket. After I put on my shoes and jacket I sat at the front window waiting impatiently for Morty to come into view. Five minutes later I saw Eli pull into my driveway.
"Bye dad" I shouted as I opened the front door "I'll be back before curfew". With that I slammed the door shut. Eli was just getting out of the drivers seat.
"Someone's in a hurry to get out of there" he said followed by one of his adorable smirks.
"So where are we going" I asked
"Patience young grasshopper!" he said. I rolled my eyes at him as we both got into the car. Morty purred... well more like sputtered when Eli cranked up the engine and put it in reverse. After about a ten minute car ride out into the country we pulled up to a farm house. I turned to Eli and gave him a look that screamed "what the heck are we doing here?" He chuckled and got out of the car.
"I felt bad" he began "I really wanted to spend my favorite holiday with my two best friends; so I figured since im spending tomorrow with Adam at the theatre and your going to Fiona's party that me and you could celebrate Halloween tonight."
"So what exactly are we doing out here in the middle of nowhere" I asked
"That" Eli said pointing to a sign that read Haunted hayrides and Pumpkin Patch straight ahead.
We got in line for the hayride. Once it was our turn we climbed inside the trailer full of hay that was attached to some horses. We took a seat with our backs to the side of the railing.
"Now Edwards don't get all scared on me" Eli laughed. He knew I was a big chicken and hated being scared.
"I think I can handle a little hayride" I said sticking out my tongue
The horses started moving and the hayride seemed enjoyable for the most part,even with the few bumps and dips in the ground that sent us bobbling around like weeble wobbles'. I was about to look over at Eli and say "see it's not that scary" when the sleigh started slowing down. I looked to see that we were headed straight into the woods.
I gulped I didn't want to be scared but I was and I knew Eli could tell.
As we headed slowly down the dirt path in the woods I heard a strange noise to the left of me. When I looked to to see what it was someone in a scary mask jumped out at me. I screamed and threw my face into Eli's shoulder.
"I thought you weren't going to get scared" he snickered, wrapping his arm around my shoulder.
For some reason that small gesture made me feel more safe then I had felt in a long time.
After we exited out of the woods I noticed Eli had removed his arm from my shoulder. I looked at him and he looked at me nervously like he had just done something he shouldn't have.
The trailer came to a stop and we climbed out.
"So what next" I asked
"Pumpkin's" he replied dragging me to the pumpkin patch. "We both need to pick one out and then we can be on are way to destination number two"
We had fun searching for the best looking one. Once we each had a pumpkin we shoved them into the back of Morty and climbed inside the car. On the car ride back to town I decided to lean my head against the cool head rest on my seat. I closed my eyes and couldn't help but take in the smell that surrounded me. I couldn't quite describe the way Morty smelled. It was a mix of whatever Eli had on and old leather. The scent seemed to have a soothing affect.
"Here we are" Eli stated as he got out of the drivers seat and opened the back of Morty.
"Isn't this your house?" I asked
"Yep" he said grabbing the pumpkins and closing the door with his back." follow me."
I was right behind him as he led the way to his backyard. He sat the pumpkins down on a picnic table covered in plastic. There were all kinds of tools to carve the pumpkins including books that had stencils in them for the more inexperienced carvers like myself. I flipped through the stencil book until I found a pattern that I liked and then Eli did the we secured the stencil to the outside of our pumpkin we both cut the tops off of our pumpkins and began to scoop out the seeds.
"Clare, what's that in your hair" Eli asked with a smirk plastered to his face. I reached up to see what he was talking about. As I touched my hair I noticed that whatever was in my hair was slimy. I couldn't help but scream as I threw the pumpkin guts from my hand. Not realizing where I was throwing the slimy orange goop i heard it land. i looked at Eli and noticed it had smacked him on the arm.
"Oh, you have done it now Edwards" Eli exclaimed as he reached into his pumpkin and grabbed a handful of guts. I did the same
"Don't you dare throw that at me" I stated, getting ready to launch the handful I had at him.
With that he playfully flung pumpkin guts all over me. I copied him and before we knew it we were both covered in orange muck. We were also standing dangerously close to one another, laughing and trying to catch our breath. Realizing our proximity to one another we slowly backed away and started carving our pumpkins.
"ta-da" I said turning my pumpkin around showing Eli.
"What's that supposed to be?" he asked laughing
"It's supposed to be what it looks like… a black cat" I said sticking out my tongue "if yours is so much better let me see it." Eli turned his pumpkin to face me. I was really surprised at how good it was. It actually looked like a haunted house with ghosts coming out of the windows and grave stones on the lawn.
"Mine is still better" I protested as we lit some candles which set the pumpkins aglow.
"alright Cinderella lets get you home before curfew?" Eli said as he blew out the candles In our pumpkins. He then grabbed my pumpkin as we walked back to the hearse. five minutes later we pulled into my driveway and Eli walked me to the door. He sat my pumpkin on the front steps.
"goodnight Clare" Eli said once as he opened the car door.
" goodnight, oh by the way Eli you have some orange stuff all over you!" I said with a laugh before retreating into my house. I stood in the entryway for a second thinking of what a wonderful night I just had.
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