Courageous Love by Cole Jerry

Author:Cole, Jerry [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I loved October. I liked the in between fashion seasons where everyone was still figuring style out, I liked the weather, and more importantly, I loved Halloween. I dressed up and acted stupidly and/or sluttily at parties three hundred sixty-five days a year, but on that day everyone else was doing it too.

I was also excited to learn that back when Cecil was a child there used to be a Halloween festival in town. He very quietly explained it ended in part because his family used to be in charge of setting it up and after the year of death that followed his parents’ passing, there wasn’t much enthusiasm to put it on ever again. It was a shame such a long tradition had to end. As soon as he told me about it my plan formed. Phase one was to convince Stacy, Beth, and Jordan to help me get people in the right places before we did anything concrete. Phase two was convincing the part of the town that wasn’t so caught up in their beliefs about Cecil that their minds could be changed, i.e. the kids, how normal and good Cecil was. Phase three, my favorite phase, was to party.

In the dead of night before Halloween, some people Stacy hired, me, Beth, Stacy, Cecil, and few of the older teens, Jordan included, who snuck out helped us set up all the decorations just like how they remembered them. I very sternly told the teens they shouldn’t have come but also didn’t make them go home. I loved compromises.

We crashed hard around four o’clock in the morning, but sent the teens home two hours earlier, and woke up at dawn. None of the others were used to that kind of sleep schedule but I was thriving. I made everyone coffee and warmed up the donuts we bought yesterday. They all dragged themselves out of bed and joined me. The town was waking up around us and they were going to have questions. We needed to be there to answer them.

Dressed in one of Beth’s warm brown and blue flannels and my only pair of jeans, I led my ragtag group to the center of town where we had set up pumpkins and stands that would be manned by some people Stacy hired. I had a sneaking feeling that Stacy used more than just what I gave her, but I also didn’t have a good grasp on how much anything cost, so I couldn’t confront her about it.

Slowly, the center of town was beginning to get filled with more and more people trying to figure out what was going on.

“Who is responsible for this?” A short man, even shorter than Cecil, pushed his way to the front of the crowd to us. He had a very well-kept bushy mustache and a balding head.

“I am sir,” I said and bowed to him.

“What is the meaning to this? I am the mayor and I received no word about this. I didn’t give anyone permission to do anything of the sort.

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