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Re: Playing with Fire [message #570 is a reply to message #569] Mon, 23 July 2012 21:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Around the pool, later that day...

Elise placed the jack 'o lantern on the table and looked around. The decorations had arrived just in time, and slowly the pool area was being transformed. Orange and purple fairy lights were strung about the patio. The foil pumpkin streamers accented them perfectly. Elsewhere, ghosts and bats hung and flapped in the wind. She waved at Scott, who was draping nylon spider webs on the plants and deck chairs. Gordon and Nikki were in the pool, arranging floating candles and other various creepy crawly things.

"Hey! Things are looking great!" Virgil said, walking up next to her.

She smiled. "They are! What's that you have?"

"What, this?" He held up a box. "Check it out. Dry ice to make things smoky and spooky. I'm heading inside to put it in the freezer with the severed hands now."

"Severed hands?" Nikki called out.

Virgil nodded. "I filled some latex gloves with water and froze them. Figured a gory hand would be funner than just regular ice cubes. Also have some dyed cornstarch to drip like blood."

Gordon laughed. "That's great, Virg! Who'd have thought you'd come up with something like that?"

Virgil glared at his younger brother. "I can come up with plenty," he said slyly.

"Shaking in my shorts here."

"I would be too, considering your latest style of swimwear," Virgil shot back. Everyone burst out laughing.

"Low blow, bro," Gordon remarked, but grinned as he said it.

Scott joined them. "Are we working here, or has the party started early?"

"We're just about done actually," Elise commented. "I think just a few more tables will do it."

Nikki nodded. "One for the cake and deserts, one for the main foods and one for drinks?"

"That sounds good. Though we'd better make sure everyone knows which is the plain and which is the spiked punch," Scott added.

Gordon chuckled. "Aw, Scott! You're no fun!"

"Was he ever?" Elise added with a wink.

"Ha ha, all of you," Scott said, pretending to be hurt.

"But, much as I hate to admit it, he's right," Elise commented. "What if we put one on each end and maybe mark it with something."

"Good idea. And we'll need a table for presents too!" Nikki said.

Virgil glanced down at his watch. "All right then, troops, to your posts! Let's get this done so we can party!"


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