Everything is Due ; Nothing is submitted

Chapter 12

It was now early October. The leaves were scattered everywhere and the campus had a nice autumn breeze to it. The entire school was excited about Halloween and the fall season.

"I'm so excited for Halloween!" Evie smiled with excitement while hanging up Halloween decorations in the common room. The UK didn't really celebrate compared to the US. Evie had seen all the stories that went with Halloween. Plus, she was excited because she and the Ghost Club were going to a supposed haunted house.

"Yeah, Halloween is pretty great over here!" Aveline butted in while she helped Evie. Halloween was one of Aveline's favorite holidays; she loved making costumes.

"Oh, we should go to a party for Halloween!" suggested Maria who was typing on her laptop. She may have gotten drunk at the last party and Altair had to carry her but she would be careful this time. Of course, she also didn't have a reason to get plastered.

"That would be fun!" Elise said as she was unboxing decorations to hang up.

"We should also get pumpkins and do a haunted hayride at a farm! I'm looking for nearby farms and I found one about an hour away." Maria exclaimed, turning her laptop to show everyone.

"Oh my gosh yes! We should invite the boys and see if they want to join!" Elise replied. She hoped Arno would join her.

"Can I invite Conner? I think he lives near that area anyway he could help us," Aveline suggested. A small blush crept up her cheeks.

"Ugh but if we invite Conner, Altair will leech on," Maria complained. She still was confused about how she felt about him. Yeah, everyone joked about them getting together and she could feel the attraction between them. It just felt wrong to her to date the guy that wrote her up the first night she was here.

"Oh, please Maria, we all know you want Altair to join. He would look absolutely dashing in a sweater," quipped Elise with a huge smile. Maria was glaring daggers at her.

"Oh, shut up!" huffed Maria.

"Hey what if we just invite a ton of our friends, it would be fun! We can invite The Rooks; The Brotherhood and I think Eivor has some friends also" Evie broke in to get Altair off topic for Maria. Evie knew Maria was crushing hard and felt bad when anyone would tease her. Evie always hated it when Jacob would tease her.

"That would actually be pretty fun," Aveline agreed.

"Alright I'll talk to Altair and Jacob to see what we can do!" exclaimed Evie. She was now even more excited: a pumpkin patch and a hayride were exactly what she needed.
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Evie had told Altair and Jacob about going to the farm and getting pumpkins and a hayride. Altair and Jacob were both on board and invited their respective clubs. Altair also asked Evie if Maria was coming to which Evie just smiled and said yes. Altair was definitely crushing hard. Saturday rolled around and it was time to leave. Everyone crammed into Aveline's SUV and started the drive. It was super crammed this time since Maria was joining. All the girls were stuck in the back. Jacob and Arno sat in the middle row. Then Aveline was driving with Eivor giving directions. Jacob also kept playing Kidz bop music with the AUX cord.

"Jacob if you don't stop, I'm going to strangle you with the aux cord!" Evie shouted over the obnoxious music. Everyone agreed with her because it was getting annoying.

"Never!" Laughed Jacob turning the music up louder. He loved annoying Evie and if his friends were caught in the crossfire so be it.

"That's it!" Evie unbuckled her seat and launched forward trying to grab the cord. "You're going to stop!!"