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“So, what?” Freddie asked.
“So, let’s come up with a plan, find a room to use as our base camp, and bust this ghost back to where she belongs. Are you in?” Luna asked, gaining confidence with each word.
She put up her fist. It was how we always started a project that seemed especially tough. Vince grabbed her wrist, then I grabbed her wrist as well, right under Vince. We continued to stare at Freddie.
“Fuck you guys,” he said, came over, and grabbed hold.
Then we recited our little prayer. “All for one. One for all. And everybody else can go to hell! We’ve got the strength, the knowledge, and each other. Now, let’s do this.”
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER, we decided to make the library our headquarters. It had three sofas and a recliner. It was centrally located on the main floor, and had four walls and a door we could close. Not that a closed door would keep Carrie Ann out, but at least it seemed like we could control the room.
The biggest feature was the real fireplace, with wood already stacked inside the hearth and enough wood to get us through the entire night. The glow of the fire would illuminate the room and keep us warm.
I found brand-new quilts and blankets in a room filled with boxes of stuff that hadn’t been used yet. Pillows were boxed as well, so I brought several of those down. Luna placed everything on the floor in front of the fire and made one big bed, which caused me to think up all kinds of wicked scenarios.
Next, I braved the weather and unloaded my SUV of all my equipment, including my newest video camera that I would use for the various Halloween events around town. Then I sent it all up around Carrie Ann’s playroom and turned on the motion detectors.
“If she shows up at all, or if she moves things around, we’ll catch it all on camera,” I told Vince, who helped me get everything set up.
“We still need to do more. We need to try to contact her.”
“And we will. I want to set this all up first, so when we’re calling on her to show, and if she does, I’ll get it all on camera.”
Freddie had set up the folding card table I always kept in the back of my car. He took a sheet and draped it over the table, gathered at least five or six battery-powered candles and stuck them in the center, then brought up some folding chairs from the storage room down on the first floor.
The lights were still out, but Vince had ordered some battery-powered camping lights and found them in the maze of boxes. I also had a couple of headlamps that Freddie and I now used.
Despite everything going on with our resident ghost, I knew I had to tell Freddie and Vince what happened between Luna and me. When we were in our mid-teens, we all hoped Luna would look at one of us as more than just a friend. So, we vowed that we would tell each other if anything ever happened.
“I kissed her,” I spat out, as I focused the video camera to encompass the entire table and all four chairs.
“You met someone?” he asked as he walked around the room to make sure every square inch of it had some sort of camera pointing at it.
“No. I kissed Luna.” He stopped, turned, and glared at me as his headlamp blinded me. “Turn that damn thing off.”
He did.
“You kissed Luna? Our Luna?” His expression became less than friendly. Almost as if he was ready to punch me.
“Is there another Luna I don’t know about?”
“No. What the hell, dude? You kissed her. How the hell did this happen? And when did this happen?”
“About a half-hour ago, on our way to the back stairs. I don’t know how… it just did. I guess I broke our pact. Sorry about that, but it’s Luna. All pacts are off when it comes to her.”
“That’s a given. And was this like a mutual kiss or…”
“Or what? Did I force myself on her? No. You know me better than that. It just happened. And she kissed me back, like really kissed me back.”
“Who kissed you back?” Vince asked as he stood in the open doorway.
“Shit, do you have some kind of radar or something?” I wanted to know.
“Maybe. I don’t know. I just put the frozen pizzas in the oven, and I knew I had to come up here and check on you two. So, who did you kiss? Did you meet someone?”
“Yeah, he met our Luna in the dark hallway and took a shot,” Freddie said, still angry.
“What the fuck? You know she’s off limits. And what about our pact? What the hell happened?” Vince asked, his forehead furrowed.
