You stab your knife into the soft pumpkin flesh and saw around the stem. Rose is already digging her hands into her own pumpkin and pulling out large glops of slimy strings and seeds.
It wasn't hard to find pumpkins in this house. If it had been, you could have just appearified some from the ecto-room (as you have taken to calling it) but no one really likes going in there. You didn't have to though because it turned out that there were pumpkins basically everywhere scattered around the house.
You are sawing off the strings attached to your pumpkin lid when Jane, Jake and Feferi stroll in. The three of them have been spending a lot of time together lately.
"Cheerio Roxy." Jake says with a goofy grin when he sees you.
"What are y'all doing?" Jane asks.
"We're carving… what did you call them again?" You turn to your mom.
"Jack o' lanterns." She says without looking up from her pumpkin guts.
Jake starts rummaging through the fridge, while Feferi gets out three glasses. She looks at you briefly before smiling and taking out two more glasses. Jane sits down across from you and your mom.
"In the middle of April?" She says, looking at you kind of funny.
Rose answers for you.
"We figured that since we have so much time, there's no use waiting until October. Besides, we don't even know if there even is going to be a Halloween in this new universe."
Feferi and Jake bring over a tray off glasses full of lemonade, placing one in front of everyone. Feferi hands you yours.
"What's a Halloween?" She asks.
"It's a human holiday we used to have on earth. Basically everyone dresses up in costumes and eats lots of candy." Jane answers.
Feferi cocks her head and sips her lemonade.
"Sounds like a pretty strange holiday." She says.
"Now that I think about it, it is. But it's also lots of fun." Jane says.
Jake gazes wistfully at the pumpkin you are currently disemboweling.
"I never got to celebrate Halloween." He says.
"Neither did I." You say, scooping out the last of the pumpkin guts. Rose has already moved on to drawing the eyes on her pumpkin with a permanent marker. You stare at your pumpkin, pondering what face you should carve into it.
"Most people in this house haven't." Rose says as she draws a grinning mouth.
Jane stands up suddenly, almost accidentally knocking over her glass of lemonade.
"Why don't we celebrate it now?" She says, giggling with excitement. "We can get everyone to join in! It would be a great opportunity to teach the trolls about human culture. And then after that maybe we could celebrate a troll holiday!"
"I don't know about celebrating a troll holiday." Rose says, "From what I have read, most of those are susceptible to ending in bloodshed and massacre, but I don't see any harm in celebrating Halloween."
Feferi hops to her feet, clapping her hands and glubbing in excitement.
"This is so glubbing fantastic!" She says.
"It's all very well and good," Jake says, "but how exactly would we pull this off?"
By now you are completely ignoring your pumpkin as you are too exited to handle a knife safely.
"Kanaya can help everyone make costumes, and Janey, you can teach us all how to make cool Halloweeny treats. And then once everything is ready, we can have a big costume party with everyone!"
Everyone starts talking at once, spewing ideas all over the place. Rose holds her hands up for silence. Everyone stops talking and looks at her.
"I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to bond and hopefully release tension over recent events, however there are a few things we have to work out first. For one, when would we hold this celebration?"
There is silence as everyone thinks it over.
"How about next week? That would give us enough time to prepare everything."
"Lets say day 16 then?" Rose suggests. She is met with nods of approval. "Alright, next. How would we get the materials we need?"
Jane speaks up.
"Can't you just do the voidy thing?" She says to you, "Isn't that how you got those pumpkins?"
You and your mom look at each other. You facepalm. You can't believe you didn't think of that. It seems that your mom didn't think of it either. You feel like such an idiot. The two of you wasted all that time prancing around the house looking for pumpkins!
"Well now that we have gotten all that figured out," She says, looking slightly embarrassed, "all that is left is to tell everyone else."
You pick up your permanent marker, suddenly sure of what you want to carve.
This is going to be epic.
Kanaya, stop avoiding your matesprit