forum High Schoolers Create a haunted house in order to pass AP Calculus (no more #Vender) (#BRAIN) (#JJ) (CLOSED BUT FEEL FREE TO STALK)

Started April 24, 2018 by @CWTurtleOfFreedom

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"I think so." Ender chuckled. "Depends on if we scared him away or not."

"I don't know," Venus giggled. "You're pretty intimidating…"

"Uh…no. I look like an awkward cat." He shook his head. "Jesse, however, has the unfortunate habit of looking like he'll eat you."

Nessa walked up to the two, "Sooo, how is Vender doing"

Venus looked at Ender. Her eyes asked the question: Should we tell her? She laughed a little to blow off some stress.

No let's not.
"Fine!" Ender replied, smiling.

"I forgot about that. Vender. Who came up with that again? Blaine?"

Jesse wandered into the room where Jane was working. He watched over her shoulder as she painted the headstone. "Interesting font choice."

“Comic Sans. Works great for these,” Jane said, not looking up. “Also for smearing paint on people’s faces.” She flicked her brush backwards, smiling.

Jesse nodded. "It's also one of the few fonts dyslexic people can read." He looked at her. "You don't mind if I watch, do you?"

“It’s fine,” Jane said, continuing to paint. Doctor Frank N. Stein, born May 1963, died June 2017. Her letters were perfectly sized and spaced, and she moved on to the next tombstone.

Jesse sat down on the ground. "Why didn't you just write RIP?"

“Not enough detail,” Jane answered, filling in another set of lettering. “Not as scary. I mean, RIP, cmon. Isn’t detail more convincing?”

"Yeah." He shrugged. "It's different too. Every time I've been to a Haunted House they always have RIP on the headstones."

“Exactly why I don’t do it,” Jane nodded. “What’s the fun in being like everyone else?”

"Exactly!" Jesse paused. "Why did you start this in the first place?"

“Well, there was this thing with our AP Cal class, and then it we realized it was around Halloween, and here we are,” Jane said. “My mum loaned me a bit so that we could buy a really run down house, this one, obviously, cheap. We built it up from there.” She finished Ms. Bee Headed’s tombstone with a flourish. “How does it look?”

"Fantastic!" Jesse smiled.

“Good! Want to help me with the next one?” Jane asked, the invitation also an offer of truce.

"Sure!" Jesse glanced around. "Should I where a t-shirt or something?"

“Nah, it usually doesn’t get that messy,” Jane advised, passing him a brush. “I was doing a wall earlier, which was why I got paint on my face.”

"Really? You obviously haven't looked in a mirror today." He laughed.

Jane smiled. “Every once and a while….”

"You should do it more often." Jesse smiled. "Now, what do you want me to do?"

“Well, the stone of the tombstone itself could use some touch up….” Jane passed him a pre-mixed palate. “Once that dries, you could do the lettering. Any name, within reason, should work. For that, we use either red, black, navy blue, or a combination of two or all three.”

Jesse nodded. "Okay…..can I put A. Hamilton on one of them?"

“If you must,” Jane sighed. “We try to avoid the popular dead guys at the mo…. but if you put it on one back there-“ she gestured to the last unorderly row of tombstones “- it should be fine. I didn’t take you as fellow Hamiltrash.”

"Are you kidding me? I love it!" He gestured wildly, making paint fly off his brush. "Oops, sorry…"

“Careful!” Jane warned, tracking the paint with her eyes as it flew off Jesse’s brush and landed amongst a pile of scenery. “Ah, that’s alright. Do you have a favorite song, or are you one of those people who are going to tell me that that is like choosing a favorite child?”

"No it's definitely Dear Theodosia."

“Okay, that’s something. Mine is probably First Burn, which was the original way Lin wrote ‘Burn’, but it didn’t make it in,” Jane shrugged. “Dunno if that counts.”