🎃 cause i've never carved one soooo - Sye
“Whoa hey careful ahaha you’ll have an eye out” Mark smirked as he set down the pretty big and rotund pumpkin on the table next to your own. You set the knife back down on the table and quickly tuck your hands behind your back. Nope absolutely innocent.“I can’t believe you’ve never done one of these before. It’s pretty simple really but fair warning, pumpkins STINK.” he pulled a face but came closer and scooped up his own knife “You know how to do it at all?” there was no pause for answer “ah no worries I’ll teach ya anyway. Alright well first things first is to just..”
He jabbed the knife as deep as it would go with a slightly concerning ease. “Easy peasy go ahead” You flash him a devious grin and jab the knife through the top of your own pumpkin, its a bit tough but doable. “Heh wow. Thinkin’ about someone there when ya did that?” a joke but he’s got that devil’s smirk on his face as he speaks. He demonstrates how to go about basically sawing the cap off the pumpkin, pulling the top off by the vegetables stalk, leaning down to get a big whiff of the innards “Ahh get a good ole whiff. Go ahead, it’s fine” You’re skeptical considering he just said it stinks but lean in to trust him and-... almost throw up, meanwhile Mark was puffing his cheeks out ready to do the same behind you, but he laughed all the same“Bad huh.. ugh..blur.. maybe yours is better go ahead try it?” You shake your head frantically and keep well away as you pull the cap off your own pumpkin
Mark chuckles a bit and hands over a large spoon “Alright this bits easy but it ain’t fun, just gotta scoop out aaaaaall the guts” He talks while he operates, dumping big spoonfuls into a trash bag and you do the same. “Kinda like that body you dealt with last week right? ahaha” more jokes from Mark but its his typical humor really.
It takes a while but you both empty the pumpkins and Mark hands over a sharpie, to help with designing how you’re gonna carve them, he gives his a hefty mustache and what appear to be googly eyes “Alright reveal on three... ready?...... three!” He turns his to show you, as you do to him, yours isn’t the best but its pretty damn good for your first pumpkin design! “Huh oh! wow! ahuhuh Look at the nose! I love it! hhuhuh that’s pretty good!” He sets his back down and grabs a carving knife “Alright just picture this time it’s that guy from last night take yer time with it yeah? Start small in the middle then go out to meet your lines.”
Once again Mark demonstrates with one of the eyes of his own, reaching in to pop the eye out “blurrhuur!” -boink- he laughed again and showed it off a bit “See and now I can kinda go around the edges” You give a nod and set to work on your own.
While you both work Mark chatters idly about this and that, nothing special, but once he’s pretty near done with his he scoots off to fetch some led’s and dry ice to put inside his own, leaving a few extras for yours on the table. “I kinda want mine to look like it’s spewing blood out of it ya know? Nice red fog comes pooling out like blurgghh ooh yours might look good with a green or somethin’?” he grins and scoops up the knife, spinning it in hand a little dangerously close and chaotic and then with a fast swing that gives a heavy bash to the table-
Jammed the knife into the top corner of what would be the pumpkins head to make it look like it’d been stabbed. He looked vaguely satisfied then flashed you a grin. “Y’know pumpkins have the same kinda texture as a human chest when ya stab em. Kinda makes ya wanna twist a bit heh...” his fingers twitched a little but he waved it off all goofy like and flippant “Ahaha” Just kidding right?
You set the dry ice and LED into your own pumpkin and turn it to show him proudly and he does seem impressed “Ah wow ahaha! Lookit that! Great job for your first one! Are you suuure you’ve never done this before!?” he probably doesn’t believe you either way.
“You gonna stab yours?” he smirked offering the knife “No?” His grin grew wider and you feel the instinct to take a step back. Is it any wonder why Ethan is always so nervous around Mark and pointy objects? “That’s alright. It looks good!” your arms shift to cover your chest, withdrawing a little from the man. “Mine still doesn’t look quite right ya know? It’s cool but it doesn’t look like bloods gushing from it” A red warning light goes off in your mind but as your eyes flick from Mark’s face to the knife ... its too late.
-..thut-“You don’t mind right?”
