Midnight Creature Feature, Chapter Two: Fangs for the Memories
Previously: a werewolf in a bow tie won Best Costume at the Pinecrest Hollow Spook-tacular. Read Chapter One.
The lights flicker. Nobody notices. Beside the cake, a tall shape steps out of a little cloud of smoke, as if he had been there all along.
“Good evening. I could not help noticing you are… full of life.” Dottie has been asked to dance by stranger men. Not many. Chet keeps eating.
The Moonlighters slip into a doo-wop ballad. The Count dances beautifully. His hands are very cold. Dottie glances at the punch bowl.
In the punch, she is dancing with nobody at all.
“Look into my eyes. You are getting… very… sleepy.”
Dottie counts her old cheer routine in her head: five, six, seven, eight. Not sleepy. “Garlic bread? Mrs Hollis made it.”
A puff of smoke, a squeak, and a small bat in the rafters. Somewhere in the confusion, one of Dottie’s pom-poms goes missing for good.
Ten minutes later the Count is back, sulking over a slice of cake. He doesn’t notice the water seeping from under the cloakroom door. Or the squelching.
Soundtrack (instrumental): No Reflection
Tomorrow night: Chapter Three, The Thing from Pinecrest Pond. Follow the whole series in Midnight Creature Feature.
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