Chapter 5

Both boys were packed and dressed by quarter to five in the morning, they drove home with extraordinarily little conversation, Gemma had the radio on and both boys either dozed off or were on their phones for the duration of the journey.

The next few weeks were a mix of awkward silences and stilted conversation for Mike and Gemma, and even when Scott came over it didn’t seem to lessen the tension, both boys had agreed that they needed more pills, so both spent the following few weeks earning as much as possible to buy some more of those wonderful pills from Scott’s cousin.

Both boys worked their socks off, it took longer than they expected, but after a gruelling two months they were able to buy another four pills from Scott’s cousin, this meant they had eight in total now. They weren’t exactly sure how they were going to use them, but neither of them mentioned Mike’s mother, Gemma, as that was an awkward conversation, however, both unconsciously agreed that if things didn’t pan out as planned, not they had a real plan, they were going to use them on her, after all, they had been tried and tested and worked amazingly well on Gemma.

Those two months passed slowly, both boys enjoyed talking about how they had fucked Mike’s mother, Gemma, but neither mentioned using the pills on her again. Mike could sense that Scott was desperate to either try the pills on another girl or woman, or just use them on his mother again, but he also sensed the Scott was hesitant to use them on Gemma purely out of respect for their friendship.

The opportunity arose a few days later as Scott’s mother, Beth was hosting the annual fancy dress Halloween party for friends and neighbours that lived in Hemlock Road. Scott and Mike decided to go as ghosts, a simple white sheet over them, with holes cut for eyeholes, unfortunately Mikes mother, Gemma had to work, this was unfortunate because both Mike and Scott had discussed the party as a prime opportunity to use the pills on Mike’s mother. However, as a bonus, due to Gemma working, Mike was going to stay overnight at Scott’s house.

On the night of the party, Mike turned up early to help Scott and Beth organise and set it up, Halloween spider webs and pumpkins and creepy stuff were hung and placed throughout the house, it was a lot of effort, but so worth it, the house looked amazing, Beth had bought dim lights to illuminate the house, just enough to see, but quite dark. By six o’clock lots of people had turned up, Scott and Mike found themselves in the kitchen, “Do you want to use any of the pills?” enquired Mike, Scott laughed as he replied “I’ve got one in my pocket just in case”, Mike laughed as he said “I’ve brought one as well”, both boys laughed. “So, who do we give them to?” Mike asked, “No idea” replied Scott. “Let’s just put two pills into a drink and see who takes it?” Mike suggested. “But what if a bloke, or some fucking ancient bitch drinks it?” Scott replied.

“Good point, I didn’t think about that, so what do we do?” said Mike. “Well, let’s just see who turns up and then decide later” Scott replied.

So, the boys continued the preparations and then both went up to Scott’s room to retrieve their costumes, which essentially were sheets with holes in them. As it turned out, when people started to turn up there were at least ten sheets with eye holes roaming around, it seemed to be a popular choice. There were at least forty people at the party, in various costumes, what both boys noticed was that there was only one girl under thirty, Laura, who was the daughter of Scott’s next-door neighbours, Jim and Eileen.

Laura was eighteen, so three years older than Mike and Scott, she was pretty, but a little nerdy. She was dressed in a skeleton costume, quite figure hugging, but not as sexy as both boys would have liked.

“Can you two move a table for me” Beth said behind the boys, both boys looked round a little surprised, Beth was dressed as a witch, with a black skater dress, that hung just above her knees, and a hat, she was holding a broomstick in her hand. “Yeah” replied Scott to his mother, “No problem.”

Both boys dutifully took instruction from Beth on the movement of the table so she could put more food out in the dining room. Well, I think the only option is Laura” replied Mike. “Yeah, not much else here really” Scott said.

“Right” said Mike, “I have no idea how we do it, but we put both pills into a drink, then give it to Laura, then try to get her on her own?”

“Yeah, seems fucking impossible,” said a laughing Scott.

“Probably” replied Mike, laughing.

“OK” said Mike, “Let’s give it a go, are we both agreed on trying to give the pills to Laura?”

“Yes, absolutely” said Scott, “I have no idea who else to give them to.” They ambled around the party for a while, looking for targets but Laura seemed the best of the lot to use the pills on.

Pretty much on the stroke of seven o’clock, disaster struck, Mike heard Laura tell the people she was talking to that she was going to another party.

“Shit” said Mike, “she’s going,” where do you think the party she is going to is, do you think we could go?” he said in an exploratory tone. “No fucking way she is going to want us coming with her” said Scott, laughing as he said it.

“So, who is left, we are running out of options” said Mike, with a grin, and a small laugh.

“No idea mate” Scott replied, both boys spent a few minutes scanning the rom, there were a lot of people at the party, around 50 or so now, most were quite drunk.

“What about Nina” said Scott, pointing at their mid-thirties neighbour, she was a chubby woman, brown hair, large breasts, but a bit of pot belly.

“Her husband is here, and she is so pissed she can hardly stand, I’ve just seen Dave her husband tell her she is not drinking any more tonight” replied Mike. “It’s a pity my Mum isn’t here” Mike added, laughing.

“Fuck it” said Scott, “Let’s just give them to my Mum!”

“What?” Mike questioned?

“Well, we’ve used them on your Mum, and they worked brilliantly, so why not my Mum? My Dad works away nine months out of the year, I’m sure my Mum gets a little lonely at times” he said laughing, “And let’s be fair, we would both fuck her” Scott added with a big laugh.

“I am not going to argue mate!” was all Mike said.

“Give me your pill” Scott demanded, and mike dutifully handed his pill over to Scott, who placed it in his hand with his own, and marched off. Mike stood for a while, then decided to leave Scott to get on with giving his mother the pills, and do something else, like procure Beer! He marched off in the opposite direction and went into the garden, there he found a plastic storage container, full of ice, but more importantly, full of cans of lager, bottles of wine, heaven.

He bent down and picked up 4 cans of lager, and surreptitiously moved away and back into the house, carrying the cans, one under each arm, and one in each hand.

He found a quiet corner of the living room and cracked a can open, thirty seconds after he got there Scott turned up, carrying a tumbler with what looked like half the tumbler full of coca cola.

“Right, we are all set up, we just need to wait” he said as he took a can from Mike as mike cracked open a can and handed it to his friend.

The boys had a few chats with very drunk neighbours over the next twenty minutes or so, Steve from next door came over and asked if they knew where Laura had gone, to which they replied that all they knew was she had gone to a party somewhere. At least three other female neighbours stopped by and asked them if they had girlfriends, how was school, the usual chit chat when chatting to schoolboys. Then Beth bounded over. “Ah, there are my boys” she said, slightly slurring, “This is for you Mum, Dave said Nina can’t have any more so to give it to you, it’s a Vodka and coke that Nina was trying to drink, but she fell over, and Dave took it away from her and told me that I should give it to you”, he sounded very convincing. “She’s in a terrible state,” said Beth, Scott’s mother, her excessive laughter betraying heavy intoxication. She took the glass from Scott, and looked at Mike, “It’s a shame your Mum had to work Mike, she would have loved this” she said, with a big beaming smile, then downed the entire drink in one. She was still wearing the witch’s hat, and looked very sexy in the black skater dress, which hung just level with her knees.

“I must go and mingle” Beth stated as she pottered off, a little bit unsteady due to being drunk.

“Right” Scott said, “We just wait now, they take effect at around thirty minutes?” he quizzically looked at Mike.

Mike simply nodded, “Its ten to eight” Scott said, “So by half eight they should have kicked in?.” Again, Mike nodded, he was getting hard just thinking about it, he had no idea how they would get Beth on her own, but he was looking forward to the rest of the night mainly because he knew he was staying the night.

Both boys lost sight of Beth, they wandered around a bit, through the garden, it was still quite warm for October, so the back door was open, there was plenty of lager and wine still available, which Mike and Scott took full advantage of, they had drunk around 5 cans throughout the entire evening and were just starting can number 6 when Rob, the elderly neighbour from down the road announced at nine o’clock that they were going to play a few traditional Hemlock road games.

“The first game” he announced very loudly, “Is hide and seek, the host of last year’s party shall of course be the first seeker, Mr Yarwood, you hosted last year’s splendid party, where are you?” he asked.

A man who looked to be in his sixty’s stepped forward, or stumbled forward due to the amount he had drunk, and raised his hand. “Ah, good” said Rob, we may proceed.

“Rules, as everyone knows, are that the host’s house, and the next-door houses either side plus gardens are the boundaries, once found, please move to the kitchen of the hosts house, help yourself to a drink, and wait for everyone to be found,” said Rob.

“Three ... Two ... One ... go!” he exclaimed. Everyone ran, Mike and Scott ran, their hearts suddenly beating fast with excitement, they instinctively ran upstairs, towards Scott’s room, then Scott grabbed Mike’s arm through his ghost sheet and pulled him towards Scott’s mothers’ room, Beth’s room was big, with a big walk-in wardrobe. “Run” they heard behind them from Beth, Scott’s mother as they all ran towards Beth’s walk-in wardrobe, she was laughing hysterically as all three of them, plus around five or six other people had the same idea.

There were at least 9 people cramped into Beth’s walk in wardrobe it wasn’t the biggest walk in wardrobe so everyone was packed in tight, someone dressed as a skeleton tried to squeeze in but couldn’t as everyone was so tightly packed in, in the end they gave up and ran off to find somewhere else to hide, the door of the wardrobe was slid closed as someone, in the almost pitch black darkness said “Everyone quiet now, I’m not losing this game”.

A couple of minutes passed, Mike and Scott began to become accustomed to the light, they had ended up on their knees, at the back of the wardrobe, they could hear running around and movement, and definite front door, where maybe Mr Yarwood had decided to start searching the adjacent houses? In front of them stood Beth, with her back to them, to the left of her was another ghost in a sheet, and to the right of her was a someone dressed as an Egyptian mummy, in front of Beth was another witch, and an odd neighbour from down the road who had come dressed as a Frog, with a huge Frog head, they were all jammed into the wardrobe, there was no room to move, not much light was coming from the window as it was dark, the curtains were open but the moon wasn’t bright, and with the door of the wardrobe closed you could barely make out who was in there.