Our Town of Halloween | Halloweentown ❥ Ethan

𝟎𝟖: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝟐: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥

Gort allowed them to look for the spell book.

After a while, Luke ended up taking his jacket off and asked, "What does it look like?"

"It's a giant leather book," Maisie replied. "Hard to miss it." Somehow, she was missing the spell book. It was sort like looking for something and it just being in front the whole time.

"I can't let this happen," Gort said, dropping some stuff on the floor.

Gort said, "My beautiful dirt cleaned? My wonderful junk sold in a yard sale?" He growled.

Maisie wanted to say that Gort sounds like her when Gwen wants her to clean her room. Sure, her room may be a mess, but it was her mess.

"Don't you have some sort of, I don't know, a filing system?" asked Luke.

"Of course I do," Gort replied. "I keep all my scabs under the porch."

Maisie made a disgusted sound while Marnie said, "Ew."

"Ugh, I'm sorry I asked," replied Luke.

Marnie suddenly screamed and Maisie went over to see what was wrong.

There was a giant cockroach in the pile of junk that Marnie was looking through.

"Hey, Spike," said Gort, going to his pet cockroach. Gort went to pick up the cockroach, "My boy, my boy. Come to papa."

Maisie guessed that even mean creatures have beloved pets. 

Gort proceeded to hold Spike on his back to tickle his belly, like Spike was a cat. Spike even had a spiked collar and name tag.

Maisie does the exact same thing to her cat, Wednesday. But Maisie calls it the 'Baby Hold'. 

Marnie looked disgusted and was pointing in disbelief.

"Yes," Gort spoke to Spike. "Okay. Go play, but you play nice." 

"Oh," Marnie said in disgust. "I don't think the spell book is here. We've looked everywhere."

"Maybe we came far to back in time," Luke suggested. "Maybe before she even lost the spell book."

"Well, she did say that she hasn't seen it for decades," Maisie replied.

"We couldn't have come that far back," Marnie said.

"Hey," Gort said. "Is this book you're looking for leather?"

"Yes," Marnie said.

"With some kind of fancy writing on the front?" continued Gort.

"Biblio Magica," Marnie said, growing excited. "Yeah."

"I remember it," Gort told them.

"Really?" asked Maisie, growing excited too.

"Calabar bought it from me about fifty years ago," Gort said.

Maisie threw her head back and groaned, because of course the former mayor would foil their plans fifty years ago. 

"That's really bad," Marnie pointed out.

"Calabar must've been working on this world-domination thing for decades," Luke said.

Maisie wondered how Calabar even found the time to have a son, if he was busy being mayor and plotting world-domination.

"Well, that means Kal must've had Grandma's other spell book all along with the gray spell in it," Marnie said. "And the only reason he took it out of our house—"

"Was to stop you from undoing the spell," Luke finished.

They groaned, because it was a frustrating position to be in.