Trick or Treat by Riley Knight

Author:Riley Knight [Knight, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LoveLight Press
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

It was one step up, even for Warren, Tristan realized as he surveyed the wreckage of Grant’s desk.

When Tristan had worked so hard at undoing Warren’s last prank, he had sort of hoped that maybe that would be the end of it. People like Warren just wanted a reaction, right? If Tristan didn’t give him one, then hopefully he would get bored and move on to something else, that was what Tristan had been desperately clinging to.

He had underestimated the sheer, burning hatred which Warren must feel for Grant, though. How much did football mean to these men, that they would go to such lengths, just for a stupid game? Tristan would never understand it.

Grant had been working very hard on his midterm project for English. Each and every night, Tristan had been dropping off to sleep to the sound of the clicking of Grant’s laptop keyboard as he furiously typed away. And that would have been fine, but his English teacher was old-fashioned. Grant had just told Tristan the other day that his teacher demanded that everything be typed, and then printed out, rather than emailed.

Teachers had their little quirks, but in this case, this particular quirk might just get Grant a failing mark in that particular class.

The stack of papers that made up the short story had been ripped into quarters, then scattered around the desk. It looked like a whirlwind had been through, and that would have been bad enough, but still fixable.

The coffee, however, which had been poured all over the ripped paper, that was going to be a whole lot harder to recover from.

For a moment, Tristan stood rooted in place, and then he rushed forward all at once, glad that Grant was in the shower. Glad that he, at least, had some time to fix this, if he could, or at least to lessen the shock a little, before Grant was going to see this. Tristan knew all too well how much work Grant had put into this, and it was going to be devastating for him. Tristan could at least try to help.

Glancing around, he grabbed a dirty shirt from his laundry pile and started to try to mop up the coffee. Even moving as fast as he could, there had been such a mess made, and he rushed as much as he could, but he still heard a movement, a voice, behind him far before he was ready, before he’d even made much of a dent in the mess.

“Tristan? What are you doing?”

With a guilty start, Tristan turned around, still clutching the coffee stained, sodden shirt in his hands. What did this look like to Grant? To come in and find Tristan standing over the shambles of Grant’s desk?

“I’m sorry,” Tristan whispered, hardly able to speak over the lump of pure, jagged ice which had formed in his throat. “I was trying to fix it.”

He had to watch as Grant took in the horrific scene in front of him, and it was every bit as bad as he had feared that it would be.

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