Dinner with the Family (ALT) (Patreon)

“Yeah, we got a break from college for a few weeks. Thought we’d spend it out here together instead of cooped up in the city.”

“No-one told me there’d be ghosts…” Janey complains, her voice slipping into a painfully cute whine.

Bella chuckles. “Ha… That’s what I did about twenty years ago. Finished college and came out on a trip and then…” A dark smile dances on her lips for a moment. “Fell in love, let’s say.”

“Really?” Toni looks surprised. Bella’s a city girl? That seems surprising. With her soft belle accent, the redhead would have guessed that she grew up on a farm. “I had you pegged as a country girl. Or from, like, the South, or something…”

“Nope. City, born and raised… Oh, could y’all pay now?” Bella holds out her hand, and Toni pulls out her credit card, and places it into her palm. “Thanks. Yeah, I moved out here and started a family. No regrets, Kent Wood makes me so much happier than the city ever did…” She licks her lips slowly.

“Cool!” Leah pulls Janey in a bit closer, squishing their cheeks together. The blue-haired girl’s cheeks redden, as Leah turns back to Bella. “Can you put us in, like, the most haunted area of the camp?” A bully as always. Toni can’t blame her girlfriend, really. The look on Janey’s face is priceless.

Bella smiles. There’s something slightly unsettling about her smile for a moment, before it vanishes. Maybe it was just Toni’s imagination. “Sure! I’ll put you in Lot 13. It’s the furthest lot away from the camp entrance.” Handing back the credit card to Toni, the older woman hands her a map of the campground as well. “You might have an interesting time there…” Bella bites her lip, and smirks at the three girls. “After all… you’re the only group staying here tonight…”

For a moment, all three girls shiver with alarm at Bella’s ominous tone. Then, the older woman chuckles warmly. “Did I scare ya?” She asks playfully.

“N-no…” Janey is a bad liar. The small girl looks down at the ground with her cheeks almost painfully red. Toni knows that the small girl can’t stand horror. One time, when they’d been watching a movie together, she’d had to cover her eyes during that one scene in Polar Express...