"Let's stop by the little school so we can show Caleb what we've done." you suddenly say as you sit between Will and Caleb in the truck heading away from the school.
"Sure, babe. That sounds cool." Will says as he takes the next turn that way.
"You mean the "clubhouse" we used last summer?"
"Yea. That one." Will replies.
"Will got this book and has been doing some neat disguise-like stuff. It's really fab. So much that you wouldn't even recognize Will if he was sitting next to you." you hint to him.
~ ~ ~
"Look, I'm not really into threesomes. So if you two want to go it alone, I'll just walk home from here." Caleb says waiting back from the door.
"No. Come on. You really have to see this to believe it." you say and wrap your hands around his left arm pulling him next to you and towards the door where Will has unlocked it with the key you gave him.
"It's stuck." Will leans his shoulder hard against it. "Caleb, give me a hand."
Caleb also leans hard against the door, but they can't make it open. After they continue to struggle for a while pounding it fairly hard, you remember you told the golem inside to not let anyone in without the pass phrase, so you decide to chide and help them.
"If you can't get it open, the book is useless."
Like the Arabian nights and "open sesame," the door releases and both fall through landing on the floor.
"Oh, another to add to the group?" Umeko's voice rings out from across the dim room.
"Shush. He doesn't know anything ... yet." you say as you step around them and into the basement.
"Damn, you got your cousin locked up in the basement! Dude, you are really fucked up." Caleb exclaims crawling up off the floor while looking around.
"Not really Umeko." you say as you reach up to her face, say the words three times and pull her face off.
A high pitched shriek, not unlike Ned Flanders of the Simpsons, erupts from Caleb after he sees her turn to stone then backs up into Will. He looks back at Will who just stands there unfazed.
"Is ... Is she some kind of witch?" he asks Will.
"Witch? Little me?" you say sauntering towards him seductively.
He gazes at you wide-eyed as you stare him down enjoying the moment, perhaps too much, as his eyes fill with fear.
Spinning around and grabbing Will's shoulders with both hands, Caleb starts ranting rapidly, "She's bewitched you, Dude. Snap out of it. We gotta get out of here, man. I knew it couldn't be true. She's not your type. Oh Mother of Mercy, save our souls!"
He tries to get around Will and back to the door, but you are now standing there ... without the Cassie mask on and buck naked.
Two more shrieks identical to the first erupt from him as he looks from one to the other of you then starts hyperventilating, staggers to the center of the room, and stands frozen considering the pair of you and your clothed twin.
"P...pl...please d-d-d-d-don't ....."
"Get a grip Caleb!" you interrupt. "Just relax and let me explain about this book."
~ ~ ~
It takes some doing, but you finally convince Caleb that you aren't possessed and his life isn't in danger (even though it probably is from Blackwell if he found out, but you conveniently skipped all that part of the story, for now). You even convince him that you have some work with a professor at the university on this who got you into the book and masks (a little bit of truth). Caleb finally seems cool with it, even accepting the fact that you are just filling in for Cassie while she is stuck solidly somewhere you can't tell him.
"Look, I have some things I have to do tonight, but you can hang with my friend Will. He's really cool. Just as good as me." you joke pointing to the Will golem who gives Caleb a big grin. "Just remember, you must...keep...this...to yourself."
"Yo, Dude. You can always trust me." he states pulling his thumb and index finger across his mouth like a zipper.
He's really interested in trying the masks and doing something with the golem, but there's no way you'll let him get Umeko's nor Cassie's body or get your memories from any of them. There's two blank masks that the golem completed, and you need one to make a second Melody tonight for you to use at Blackwell's.
You consider making a mask of him - a golem mask to control him so he doesn't tell anyone, even accidentally. It would be so easy since he is a willing participant. You could tell him the burning with dirt and hair is part of the usual process. It's not like you would turn him to stone like Cassie.
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