Halloween Tricks & Treats by Brenda Hiatt

Author:Brenda Hiatt [Hiatt, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dolphin Star Press

When the crowd starts to drift back to the living room, Trina turns down the music and waves her arms to get their attention.

“Okay, everybody, time for some Halloween fun!” she announces. “I’ve put together a little haunted house in the basement. Now, I only want you to go down there in twos and threes, so you can have the daylights scared out of you. Who has the guts to go first?”

“C’mon!” Pete Griffin drags a giggling Heather toward the basement stairs. “You can hold on to me if you get scared,” he says with an eyebrow waggle.

Heather nods eagerly, making her black cat ears wobble and they head down the stairs together.

“Wasn’t Heather going out with Gary last week?” M whispers to me.

I shrug. “Maybe? I can’t keep up.”

The music returns to its previously deafening volume, but it doesn’t drown out two ear-splitting screams from Heather below our feet a few minutes later. She and Pete come back up the stairs shortly afterward, laughing.

“OMG, that was so scary!” Heather cries, between gasps of laughter. “I feel so stupid.”

“Good thing I was there to catch you or I think you’d have fallen down!” Pete’s laughing too.

I have to hand it to Trina, M thinks to me. She may be mean bordering on evil, but she sure knows how to throw a party.

I’m reluctantly agreeing when I realize Bryce has disappeared. I silently curse myself for not noticing when or where he went. He must have disappeared into the basement while the team was giving me the football. Now he’s probably lurking in some corner down there, ready to spring Trina’s trap on M when she shows up. Which I’m not going to let happen.

I think we’d better stay out of the basement, I urgently send to her. From what I heard Trina saying to Bryce earlier, she’s planned something so awful for you that even Bryce worried you could get hurt.

Why am I not surprised? is her cynical reply.

Couples and small groups take turns going downstairs and they all come back laughing and clinging to each other. After a while, Trina makes her way over to us.

“Rigel, you haven’t checked out my haunted house yet, have you? I just know you and Marsha will love it.” Though Trina gives me one of her syrupy grins, she’s radiating nefarious intentions. I sense it as strongly as M does, since we’re holding hands.

“Sorry,” I say, “I’m really not into haunted houses. I always thought they were kind of dumb.”

She pouts at me. Then, though I can feel her frustration, she puts on a flirty act. “Oh, come on, Rigel. You wouldn’t want everyone to think our star quarterback is too scared to go into a silly little haunted house I put together in my basement, would you?” she teases, basically ignoring M. “I mean, if you are, I’m flattered. But it’s not all that scary.”

“Hey, I heard all the screaming,” I joke back, determined to put her off. “Who wouldn’t be scared? You must have really outdone yourself.

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