Nothing Can Break Us(Javid+Sprace)

~6~ Halloween

(TW: homophobia)

Davey

"Alright. Everyone listen up." Mr. Denton tries his best to silence the group of rowdy teens. "The school will be hosting the Halloween fair this Friday night. As members of the Journalism class and club you are required to be there, and take notes so we can have a good paper on Monday."

Mush raises his hand. "Do we have to dress up mista'?" We all simultaneously crumple up a piece of paper and throw at him. Fifteen balls of paper fly around the room, some hitting Mush, others missing completely.

"What do you think stupid?" Finch says. "It's Halloween of course we have to dress up."

"I'm also going to need you guys to run a booth." Mr. Denton says. We all groan, nobody really wants to run a booth on Halloween. "Yes I know. We only have four days to figure out what it's going to be. Any ideas?"

"We could do a kissing booth." Romeo exclaims.

"God no. Kissing booths are a weird concept, plus romance club is already doing that." Blink puts in.

I turn to Jack who's next to me. "We have a romance club?" I whisper. He just shrugs.

"What about face painting?" Crutchie suggests.

"Well the only person in here with any artistic talent is Jack, and he's not going to want to run the booth all night. Art Club is already doing that anyway." Specs adds.

We all throw around ideas but none of them stick. All the ideas are expensive or already taken by other clubs. We should've figured this out last week instead of on the Monday before the fair.

"We could make popcorn?" I suggest. "It's cheap, it'll make a lot of money for the club, and it doesn't require any hard skills."

"That's a good idea Davey." Katherine says shaking her finger in support.

"Yeah." Boots says. "Let's go with that."

"Any objections?" Mr. Denton asks. Everyone shakes their heads. "Awesome. Now go back to doing, whatever it is that you do."

I start to get up to walk over to Katherine and Smalls but I'm pulled back down into my seat by Jack. "Don't leave me Davey." He grabs my hand.

"I'm sorry Jack but someone has to work on the paper." I respond starting to stand back up.

"Don't stay over there too long Davey." He kisses my hand and let's it go. I blush and walk over to where Katherine has her laptop out. As I sit down across from her she notices my blush.

"What are you all flustered about?" She questions.

"Nothing." I take out my laptop from my bag and attempt to hide my blush.

"Sure okay." She drops it and we get to work on tomorrow's paper. Not much happened today. The newspaper mostly consists of future events and sports highlights from last week. It only takes us about fifteen minutes total to put it together.

When we're done I walk back over to the table where Jack and I were sitting. Race, Spot and Crutchie joined him and the four of them were talking. When I sit back down next to Jack he throws his arm around my shoulders. I lean into him.

"So Davey we was just talking about Halloween costumes." Race says.

"Oh yeah? What have you guys come up with?" I respond.

"Well I suggested the Mystery Gang, Race suggested sexy pirates, Jack suggested storm troopers, and Crutchie says that we should be those multi-color inflatable dinosaurs." Spot says.