Mischief by Tiffany Reisz

Author:Tiffany Reisz [Reisz, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 8th Circle Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Nora and Nico slept obscenely late the next morning. They had sex upon waking, went back to sleep, and almost had sex again upon waking the second time, but decided they needed food more than sex. By then they’d missed breakfast at the B&B, but a large brunch at the Ugly Mug diner saved them from cannibalism.

Nora and Nico texted back and forth with Justine all day. She gave them suggestions galore of places to visit. Through their texting, they learned Justine was bartending by night to pay for her Master’s in Art Education by day. Justine thought it was “amazing” that Nico, barely twenty-six, had his own winery in France and begged to try some of his wine if it were for sale in Salem. She thought it was equally “amazing” that Nora was a published author. Nora promised her wine and dirty books, and Justine said if they weren’t careful, she’d tie them up in her basement and never let them leave Salem.

This, Justine texted, was how people flirted in Salem.

Nora approved.

Soon as the sun set at the ungodly early hour of six in the evening, Nora and Nico headed out on foot to a nearby haunted museum attraction Justine had recommended. Hand in hand, they wandered long dark hallways where zombies, ghosts, and demons awaited them around every corner and behind every door. In a room labelled “The Oddities,” a collection of medical nightmares that had been discovered in the home of a doctor six decades earlier were on display. Nora and Nico peered through the glass at deformed animals stuffed and mounted, tumors with hair, and even one human brain preserved in formaldehyde.

“This is so disgusting,” Nora said, wincing at the sight of a tapeworm in a jar. It was one hundred feet long that had been supposedly removed from a woman’s stomach in 1898. Proof Justine was right that time travel was for idiots.

“Eh, it’s not so bad,” Nico said.

“The woman thought she was pregnant for two years, and it wasn’t a baby. It was a tapeworm.”

Nico shrugged. “In France, that’s like a...like a kid’s book. You know, a secret pet.”

Nora narrowed her eyes at him. “What happened to the French to make you all like this? Was is the Revolution? It was, wasn’t it?”

They survived the haunted house. Nora screamed and jumped twice, Nico once. In Nico’s defense, he screamed because Nora stepped on his foot. In Nora’s defense, she only stepped on his foot because a young girl in a torn and bloodstained nightgown and white facepaint reached out from under a table and grabbed her ankle with a claw-like hand.

Nico held Nora tightly and patted her back while she caught her breath.

“That was a demon,” she said. “A demon attacked me.”

“It was only a baby demon.”

“Next time you want to celebrate an American holiday, we’re celebrating motherfucking Thanksgiving.”

“You’re so cute when you’re terrified,” Nico said into her ear.

“I think I pissed myself.”

“Maybe not so cute.”

Thankfully, Nora did not piss herself, and Nico’s foot was fine.

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