Touch of Mischief 7.5

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Author: C.L. Stone
Tags: school, YA romance
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giggling.”
    I tapped at his cold hand over my mouth, mumbling that it was Halloween and he couldn’t possibly have a reason not to laugh today.
    “We’re about to cut up our pumpkins,” Nathan said, smiling. His chest was still heaving a bit as he breathed heavily. He pointed to his pumpkin. “I think I want the zombie, but this alien guy looks really sick.”
    Dr. Green released my mouth but hung his arm around my neck and drew me back to the table. “What’s Sang’s going to be?” he asked. He tilted his head, looking at my pumpkin between Nathan’s and Kota’s.
    “She has to pick one,” Nathan said.
    Dr. Green reached up, touching his cold fingers to my neck, enough to make me squirm and pull away. He grinned, his light green eyes lighting up and a wave of his sandy hair falling across his forehead. “I was trying to warm my hands. I can’t have them this cold if I’m doing pumpkin surgery.”
    “You’ve got to gut yours first,” Nathan said. He pointed to the row of other pumpkins.
    “I have to change my clothes,” Luke said. “And maybe take a shower now.”
    “Do your pumpkin now while you’re dirty,” Kota said. “Then you can shower.”
    “Good idea,” he said. He snagged one of the pumpkins and then a second one. “I’ve got Gabriel’s. He’ll want this one.”
    My mouth fell open, and I looked at Kota for confirmation if that was okay. I wasn’t sure if it was one of Luke’s tricks.
    Kota didn’t miss a beat. “Luke,” he said, the command in his voice rising. “If you mess up his pumpkin...”
    “No way,” Luke said with a grin. He took the shirt off his shoulder and dropped it onto a chair, scooting the chair away from the table to make room. “He’ll just kill me if he gets one of the smaller pumpkins. You know him, he’ll want a big surface to work on.” He placed his and Gabriel’s pumpkins on the table, reaching for one of the knives and starting on carving open the top. “Sang, want to gut Gabriel’s pumpkin for him? He’ll want to help you with your carving, anyway. Might want to wait until he gets here.”
    It sounded like a good idea, since I still hadn’t chosen one of the stencils from the book. I got to work next to Luke, using Kota’s scoop this time and pulling guts from Gabriel’s pumpkin.
    While Kota and Nathan were setting up their stencils, and Dr. Green went back outside to the car to grab some more supplies, Luke leaned in and whispered to me, “Okay, Sang, you ready?”
    I got the hint I was supposed to whisper, too. “Ready for what?”
    He leaned in closer, enough that I felt his lips brushing against the edge of my ear. “Initiation time,” he said. “We’ve got to make you part of the team.”
    Uh oh. That sounded like trouble. “How?”
    “You’ve got to help me scare each one of the guys this Halloween, before midnight. We’ve already gotten Nathan and Kota. I got Dr. Green this morning when he picked me up. I kept one of the Volto masks and met him at the door with it.”
    I backed my head up, my eyes wide and my mouth open. Scare the others? As in people like Silas and Mr. Blackbourne? How in the world did he expect me to do that?
    He laughed and winked. “Don’t worry,” he said a little louder as he stabbed at the inside of his pumpkin, pulling out a handful of seeds and tossing it onto the growing pile on the newspapers. “I’ll help you with your... pumpkin .”
    Initiation was really the word I was wanting him to explain. Initiation into what?
    And secretly, I wanted to be included. After the stressful last few weeks, a little fun by a few scares, with Luke’s help, seemed a great way to pass the day.
    Besides, if I was helping Luke with his pranks, he couldn’t get me again, could he?

Gabriel’s Scare
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    D r. Green came back in, loaded with bags from the grocery store. Nathan and Kota went to peek at what he was carrying in. I was about to join them when Luke nudged my arm, whispering to

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