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Episode 685: One Of Those Nights

"How come you’re lying down?" Nate asked the minute he walked in the door, dressed for trick or treating in a vampire costume, complete with black cape, blood-dripping fangs, and white make-up to pale out his face.

Jesse didn’t need white make-up. He felt pretty pale all on his own. "I’m tired," he said.

"You can’t be tired. It’s early." Nate frowned. "It’s Halloween. You have to get up."

"I don’t feel like it, okay?" Jesse groaned and folded his pillow over his ears. He hated to let down his little brother, but he felt so wiped out, he wanted to sleep, for, like, a year.

"It’s not okay."

Jesse felt Nate sit on the end of the bed, only he wasn’t just sitting, he was impatiently bouncing.

"Knock it off," Jesse growled and used what energy he had to fire his pillow at Nate and glare at the poor kid, who was busily fixing the fangs the pillow had jarred out of position.

"Why are you so mean now?" Nate asked.

Yeah, that was just what he needed to hear on top of how ill he felt. "Sorry, Nate, it’s just, like I said, I’m tired and your bouncing wasn’t helping."

"What will help?"

"I don’t know, so just go ask mom and dad to take you."

"But you promised."

"I know. I’m sorry. I’ll make it up to you, soon, okay."

"Why’d you say you’d take me when you don’t even like me anymore?"

"I like you."

"Hah." Nate looked so crestfallen and dejected.

Jesse knew those feelings well lately where Caroline was concerned. He hated to think of Nate feeling even half as awful as he did. "I’m getting up, Nate. I’m going with you." It took him ridiculously long to sit up, though he felt a little better once he did. Only a little.

"Awesome!" Nate leapt to his feet.

His brother’s enthusiasm stirred enough in Jesse to help him to his feet. He was woozy and achy, but okay, enough to come through for Nate. At least, he figured he would be okay, he could walk it off maybe, but in the meantime, he asked, "do you have any more white make-up, Nate?"

"Sure. Want me to go get it?"

"Yeah. I think I have my own set of fangs from a couple Halloweens ago. I figure I’ll be a vampire, too, if that’s cool with you?" That way their parents wouldn’t know how pale he was, and worry.

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