She looked at me in surprise, but I didn’t explain. I was going to be much nicer to Duncan from now on.
Fifteen minutes later Iris dropped Duncan and I off at Tamsin’s house. I could hear the song “I put a spell on you” blaring out from inside, and there were cut out ghosts and witches in the windows.
Duncan made a decent vampire in his costume, I wondered about setting him up with Kate, she was such a Twilight fan.
As the door opened I thought I would feel sick with nerves wondering if Sean was going to be there and if he would talk to me, but after everything I had been through in the last day, I felt surprisingly confident.
I quickly found Bryony and Kate. Bryony was flirting with a boy I recognised as one of Sean’s friends. Kate was standing to one side looking a bit left out. I hugged them both.
“Where have you been all day?” Kate asked, “I’ve been ringing your phone but it was always switched off.”
“Sorry,” I apologised, “just some family stuff I had to sort out.”
“Is everything alright now?”
“Yes.” I smiled.
“Hey Kate, do you think you could chat to Duncan for a bit? I don’t see any of his friends here yet.”
“Sure,” she smiled coyly at Duncan. He looked delighted and a bit star struck at the sight of her in her ‘Buffy’ outfit. How had I never noticed before that they might like each other?
I soon spotted Sean chilling in the kitchen. He was dressed as a zombie. I laughed when I saw his costume. He looked absolutely nothing like the zombies I had accidentally raised. Much better looking for a start. I walked over.
He leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. He smelled a million times better than my zombies as well.
“I was starting to worry you weren’t coming.” He said, flashing lovely white teeth at me.
“I wouldn’t have missed this party for anything.” I said, knowing full well now that it was the truth.
He tilted his head, eyeing me appraisingly. “You seem different somehow.”
I laughed again. “Do I?”
But he was right, I did feel different, I was different. For a start, the old me would never have approached him, I would have waited for him to come to me, and then I would have been really edgy and under confident. Not any more.
He offered me a glass of ‘eyeball’ fruit punch. I sipped it, smiling at him and listening to him talk. I didn’t add much, just watched the way he ran his fingers through his hair, the way he was focused only on me.
Then I watched him and his friends do the full dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and clapped appreciatively.
Eventually we moved out to a bench in the garden, only able to see each other by the light of the moon and the flickering of several candles that stood inside carved pumpkins.
It wasn’t the most romantic song in the world, but he leaned in to kiss me as the Ghost Busters theme tune started in the house, filtering out of the living room window.
It was funny how the lyrics made me feel powerful. I was a ghost buster, in a friendly nice way. I was a ‘righteous witch’ as Peter had said.
Instead of ducking my head, or turning away in fear at the last second, as I might have done before, I was ready for this moment.
Under a Halloween full moon, Sean Carrey kissed me, and I kissed him back.
I had earned this moment. Who knew what the future would hold, what other talking animals I would encounter, what ghosts I might have to help, what other spells I would cast that would cause complete mayhem, and whether my magic would be a major part of my life or just another element of who I was.
None of that mattered as I experienced my first real kiss.
This was one Halloween I would never forget.
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