"I swear, if I'm dying tonight because of you, I'm gonna haunt your ass so hard, Harrington!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah! I'm gonna go full Poltergeist and shit!"
"Then bring it, Graveswood."
"Challenge accepted."
***
In which after years of suppressing their...
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Chapter One-Hundred-And-Two: "Bribing" Erica
(The Sauna Test, Pt. 2)
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After getting Dustin unstuck from the vent where the curly-haired boy said immediately, "Don't say anything," to Rowan while she just smirked, Erica took his place as she peered into the vent while they waited for her verdict and see if she could fit into it.
The ten-year-old scrutinised the air duct before she turned around and said, "Yeah, I don't know."
Valerie threw her head back and muttered, "Are you kidding me?" while Rowan glared at Erica—she should have guessed the younger Sinclair would be resistant against this ever since they first asked her to do this.
"You don't know if you can fit?" Dustin questioned, while Steve shook his head, looking exasperated with Erica—not that Rowan could blame him.
"Oh, I can fit. I just don't know if I want to," Erica responded in an incredibly sassy voice that would have Rowan smirk if not for the situation.
"Are you claustrophobic?" Robin asked.
"I don't have phobias," Erica replied right back with a smirk.
"Wow. You must be so fearless," Rowan snarked with an eye-roll.
"Damn straight I am," Erica returned.
"Okay, well, what's the problem?" Steve asked.
"Yeah, and it better be a good reason, you little twerp," Valerie muttered—the Martinéz girl was never getting over how incessantly Erica asked for ice cream samples instead of buying a proper ice cream.
"The problem is, I still haven't heard what's in this for Erica," Erica revealed.
The five of them gave each other looks, knowing exactly what they had to do to get Erica Sinclair to do this.
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Nearly ten minutes later—and several cans of whipped cream and a bottle of fudge sauce—Rowan, Dustin, Robin and Valerie sat in a booth looking at Erica right in the middle as Steve slid a sundae over to Erica after giving her several ice creams and a large ice cream float and milkshakes. Their only hope of bribing Erica into doing this for them.
Erica gave it a cursory look before pushing it back to Steve. "More fudge, please."
Steve gave her a disbelieving look, but Erica only waved her hand and said, "Go on."
Steve glared at Erica before he gave a long-suffering sigh and grabbed the sundae and walked away to douse the sundae in even more fudge, Rowan giving him a sympathetic look before the rest of them turned back to Erica.
"All right," Robin began as she held up the blueprints marked with the route so Erica could see. "You see this? This is the route you're gonna take. Then we just wait till the last delivery goes out tonight. Then you knock out the grate, jump down, and open the door."
