Mall-O-Ween Mischief by Sarah Robinson

Author:Sarah Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Robinson

CHAPTER EIGHT

AVERY

“Wow. This place really is fancy,” Jay said as he held open the front door to La Verde Triste and Avery walked through, their full ringmaster costume leaving little bits of glitter on the floor with each step they took.

“It’s the fanciest place in town,” Avery confirmed as they waited in a small queue of people next to a wide mirror on the wall. Avery pointed at their reflection in the mirror. “Hey, where’d you go?”

“What?” Jay looked at the two of them in the mirror, completely missing the reference.

Avery gave him a pointed look. “It was a vampire joke. Because you’re dressed like a vampire.”

He frowned. “I don’t get it. Are vampires invisible or something?”

With a dramatic flair, Avery put their hand in front of their face and rubbed the spot between their brows. “You’re dressed as a vampire for Halloween and you don’t even know that vampires don’t have a reflection?”

He glanced back at the two of them in the mirror. “Oh, so I’m invisible in the mirror.”

“This is going to be a long dinner,” Avery commented, mostly as a joke but they noted he flinched slightly at that comment. They felt a stirring of remorse, wishing they could pull those words back. “I mean, I’m looking forward to it. The food here is great.”

“Yeah.” Jay’s tone was empty as they stepped up to the host stand and he told the hostess their party’s name.

The hostess picked up two menus and motioned for them to follow her as she led them to a darker, more obscure part of the restaurant where a half-circle red booth with a curtain that pulled open or draped closed offered them more privacy.

Avery felt their skin prickling with nerves. Hiding behind a curtain with a non-self-aware vampire at a fancy restaurant felt very intimate, and they were still holding on to the sting from a few days ago. We’re not together. Although, they still weren’t entirely sure why that sentence had stung so much, or why they’d found themself trying to catch a peek of Jay through his store window over the last few days. Something inside them was drawing them closer to him, and it felt terrifying.

He was damaged goods. Period. Avery knew that. Hell, everyone in Yule Heights knew that. But somehow, that only fed their fire rather than extinguished it.

Probably something to bring up with their therapist at some point.

Jay gestured for Avery to pick their seat first, so they slid into the booth on the right side until they were close to the middle. Jay did the same from the opposite direction so now they were seated next to each other, but with enough space and angling to also be partially facing each other as well.

The hostess handed them both their menus and assured them the server would be over shortly to take their order.

Avery lifted the menu in front of them like a shield they could hide behind. That only worked for about thirty seconds, however, since

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