I screamed into my pillow kicking my feet into the air. Iskall laughed and chucked his pillow at me.
"Stooooop!" I whined pulling his pillow closer and using it to inclose myself in.

There was a knock on the door and I groaned loudly. There was a chuckle and then Xisuma slipped in.
"Hey X," I sighed shoving my face into my pillow once more.
"Dad was impressed by your friend," Xisuma mentioned.
I looked up and gave him a quizzical look.

"The Evo? The one you've been hanging out with for a month?" He offered sitting at the base of my bed.
"Actually he's his bo-" Iskall began before getting a pillow to the face, courtesy of me.

"What?" Xisuma asked tilting his head.
Iskall didn't respond to him though, instead, he yelled at me. I retorted by giving him the bird and X immediately grabbed my hand and yanked it down to my side.
"Guys!" He snapped, seeming angry though it was probably just annoyance.

"He started it!" I retorted.
"You threw the pillow!" Iskall countered.
"BOYS!" X finally had enough sitting up anger coating his voice.

We both stopped but the daggers exchanged between us didn't end. 
"1) Iskall if Mumbo isn't ready to tell me that he and Grian are boyfriends, he doesn't have to. 2) Mumbo, stop being petty. 3) Dad says you're not grounded anymore but to not tell Mom about being friends with an Evo." Xisuma sighed.
"Wha- how?!" I stammered.
"Oh come on, it's obvious." He sighed, rolling his eyes.

I pulled my legs to my chest and sat up. I mumbled muffled annoyance into my knees and then there was a notification on my phone.
I went to grab it but X was quicker. He read it and furrowed his brow.

"No." He said looking at me blankly.
"What?" I asked.
He turned the phone around and the notification was of the Halloween festival.
"No way. You aren't going." He growled.
"Oh. Heh, who said I was going to." I attempted.

"He's your boyfriend of course you were going to go!" X growled and we both shushed him.
"Wait- oh no way! You're in on this too?!" X shrieked.
"X! Please, quiet down!" Iskall shushed him again.
"You just got out of your fiasco and your diving headfirst back in!" X refused standing up, maybe too quickly.

"What if you came with?" Iskall quickly offered.
"What?! And get in trouble with you guys?! No way!" X refused.
"Oh common! It'll be fun!" Iskall assured him.
"I ain't doin' it!" X down-right refused.
"At least, don't tell?" I begged, grabbing his arm.

"What?!" He gasped looking down at me.
"Come on! I wanna be there for him, please don't tell!" I pleaded, squeezing his hand tightly.
He sighed and grumbled.
"Fine. But you're not going alone!" He protested.

"I'm going with him?" Iskall offered.
"Oh heck no! You're younger than him and I'm talking about an older sibling," Xisuma scoffed.
"What about Hypno?" I asked and he paused.
"Really?" X asked.

"Yeah, why not? Not like he can get in trouble or Biffa?" I offered.
"I guess..." X pondered.
"Sooooo," I asked.
"Fine then. I'll talk to you guys about this later. Dinner's at 6." He said.

"Yes!" We both cheered as he left the room.

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"You're meeting Hypno a block away. Don't stay out too long and don't be suspicious, got it?" X ordered squeezing Iskall's shoulder.
"Yes sir!" I squeaked happily and he sighed.
"Wait until it's safe," he repeated and left closing the door behind him.

We stayed up with the lights on until 6. Then we turned the lights off and Iskall curled up in his bed as if sleeping and I stayed on my phone, texting Hypno.

H: you. Are bold!

M: I just hope this isn't going to backfire.

H: you have someone on the inside and the outside who's willing to help. Just try and make it seem like you're really there.

M: no one enters when the lights are out during the night. They just assume you're asleep

H: and they can't check everyone's beds ;D

M: you did this a lot didn't you?

H: oh all the time!

H: in fact, I used to hang out at night with an Evo myself.

M: WHAT?!

M: Which one?

H: Zee

M: . . . . Really?

H: ye think he got kicked out because of his girlfriend or somethin' strict A parents

M: WHAT???!!!!

H: I'm here

So I changed to Xisuma and texted him.

M: now?

X: yeah now should work. Be careful!

We left at 7 PM. At the end of their first showing. We scurried down to the end of the block and turned the corner where we hopped into Hypno's car where he and his girlfriend sat in the front seat. (imma make up a name for her)

"Hey! You must be Mumbo and Iskal!" His girlfriend greeted looking back at us as we buckled up.
"Yep!" Iskall beamed.
"Mumbi, Isky, this is Eliza," Hypno introduced motioning to his girl.

"Pleasure." I smiled at her as he drove the car to the Halloween Festival.
We parked and hopped out walking the rest of the way.

The place was amazing! Booths, mazes, pumpkins, hay, tents, hay, children running around screaming like Banshees, oh did I mention hay?
The ground was littered with hay. There were hay barrels laying around black, orange, and red seemed to be the primary colors for the place. It felt warm even with the cold weather.

Although whether that was the atmosphere or the temperature was unclear. As we roamed the magnificent source of enjoyment I noticed a lovely little boyfriend of mine.

His clothing didn't work well with the weather but he worked it. He wore a red jumper. It covered his feet, had no sleeves, a turtleneck, and a low cut back that was cut down to the top of his hip bones, the outfit was skin tight and he was sucking on a push pop.

He must have noticed me because his eyes trailed over and he almost choked on the piece of candy quickly popping it out of his mouth and running over.

"Jumbipop! You actually came! I thought you said you couldn't! Weren't you grounded? Are you out of it? Or are you just being a rebel again?" Grian asked his words racing out of his mouth too quickly to comprehend.
"Hello to you too!" I laughed.

"Oh right- sorry." Grian chuckled to himself looking down slightly.
"Anyways! I got a good, er, 2 hours till the next show you wanna ride somethin'? Don't worry we didn't set them up, professionals did," he assured me.
I laughed and ruffled his blond hair.
"Sure," I laughed and he beamed.

"Great!"
"Oh, Iskall! I'm sorry I didn't even see you there!" Grian adverted his attention to my brother.
Iskall laughed and sighed.
"No prob, you were distracted by your boyfriend," He teased, probably to get a reaction out of me but he got more of a reaction out of him.

His face turned a cute cherry red and quickly shushed Iskall saying," shush! Not here!"
Iskal chuckled by the reaction and Grian hid his face.

I looked back when I felt a hand on my shoulder. Hypno leaned in and whispered, "so you took my advice and went after your big guns huh?"
He smirked and I blushed.

"Where should we go first?" Eliza chimed in.
"Oh! I'm sorry and who might you two be?" Grian perked up standing on his tiptoes and peaking around me to try and see Eliza.

"I'm Hypno. The oldest of Mumbo's brothers." Hypno introduced himself.
"And I'm Eliza, Hypno's girlfriend," Eliza introduced herself.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you two!" Grian chirped.

"So-" I began.
"Oh! We have this awesome haunted house that I and Mini made! Let's go!" He chirped grabbing my hand and running off to a large house a little ways away.

We got through the house with Grian happily dodging every scare though one guy jumped out almost on top of him which sent him in my arms like a cat to a tree. Which ended with Hypno winking at me and Iskall laughing like no tomorrow. Grian got out of my arms and smacked Iskal atop the back of his head as if he had known Iskall all his life.

My guess was it was a sibling instinct. Because Grian hit Iskall atop the back of his head and Iskall responded by doing what he'd do with all of us. He pushed him away laughing and stuck his tongue out. They acted like they had been friends for centuries or like they were brothers.

On the other hand, Grian clung desperately to me. His fingers digging into my skin like knives as he glared daggers at every crevice in the wall as if expecting another person to grab him and drag him into the depths of hell.

"Grian, ease up a bit. As you said, you built this place," I offered and sure enough he did ease up.
But he didn't let go, now instead of terrified clinging it was more like cuddly clinging. Which warmed my arm up more than it had been before.

We exited what Eliza deemed the hell-hole, she hated scary things if you couldn't tell, and immediately Grian began shivering.
"Jeez, didn't realize how cold it was until I got warmth!" He laughed rubbing his bare arms.
"Well no duh, look at you! You're practically wearing no shirt." Hypno scoffed.

I sighed and pulled away, he whimpered from the loss of warmth once again. I pulled my coat off and wrapped it around his shoulders. He pulled it close seemingly breathing in my aroma before I wrapped an arm around him.

"Does that help any?" I asked and he nodded as he allowed himself to be engulfed by my coat.
He was so small that my coat ran almost to his mid-thigh. Though it was a tad long on me too.

"Way more than you think." He murmured.
If he was in an animation or a picture, maybe the shines in his eyes would be hearts, I swear on it. That's how much he was basking in the warmth of my jacket.

We walked about more. He eventually slipping his arms through the sleeves though laughing about the difference between his arm length and the arm length of the jacket. He swung it around and jokingly hit me with my own jacket sleeves.

We got some food that we didn't really need but Grian seemed to. He ate the hot dog rather quickly and gladly popped chip after chip into his mouth. Then there was this loud popping noise and an announcement that the next show would start in 20 minutes.

Grian whined, kissed my cheek, and got up.
"I'll see you at the show?" He asked his eyes sparkling although seemingly ready for rejection.
"See you in 20 minutes cutie," I responded and he gleamed.
"You want your coat back?" He asked backtracking before he could runoff.

"Give it to me later." I shrugged him off and he snuggled into it once more, popped the last of his chips into his mouth, and threw the ruins into the garbage bin.
Then he waved and ran away towards the large, obvious, multicolored tent.
"You think there'll be a line?" Iskall asked shifting on the kind of uncomfortable hay bale chair.

"Maybe," I shrugged.
"Do we want to risk it?" Eliza asked.
"I dunno." I shrugged and Hypno got up.
"We could've gone with him you know, not like we had any food ourselves," Hypno commented and we all hopped up and raced after Grian.

We got to the tent right as Grian was about to enter the tent through a back entrance.
"Hey!" I waved to him and he looked back.
He beamed held up a finger, disappeared into the tent, and popped back out with a six-pack of Coke.

"You can have these right?" He asked.
"Ye," I nodded.
Iskall beamed and eagerly took one from the six-pack.
Hypno shrugged and grabbed 2 handing one to Eliza. I took the fourth and Grian popped out the fifth.

"I'll give the last to Taurtis." He concluded.
He slipped the coat off and handed it to me.
"It'd be better if you had it, don't want it to be stolen backstage," he glanced around.

"I gotta go! Wish me luck?" He kissed my cheek again and ran back to the tent, 2 bottles in hand throwing the small piece of plastic into a recycling bin not far away.

"Oh Lord, he's cute," I commented my face heating up as I put my jacket back on.
It kind of smelled like Grian now. How interesting~.

We went to the entrance, waited 10 minutes, and were let in finally. We were told to sit at the end of the first row. The place was dark but in the darkness, at the opposite end of the tent, I could see the outline of light blue and blond hair, green, and red with blond hair.

The outline of Grian shifted and looked over. He did something but I couldn't tell what it was or whether or not it even was Grian so I didn't respond with anything.
He turned back around as we climbed into the bleachers. I was the third person in the row. To my right were 2 strangers to my left was Iskal.

The bleachers were cold but heat violently hit our backs due to heaters placed underneath the bleachers. Possibly an attempt to keep us or the seats warm.

Hey sorry if I begin to delay, I have a certain amount pre-written but I'm quickly running out of those. But hey if you want to chuck an idea at me I might use it just for fun. Like a little Easter egg hunt if you want. Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in. All the love guaranteed~ GFrisk 🤍