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"Hey!" Kai waved at Sally as he finished sweeping up some glitter. "C'mon in and head into the back area here. Welcome to Arts and Crafts Club!"

The door gong sounded again. Frankie Stein walked in...at least, Kai presumed it was Frankie underneath the gigantic pile of fabric she was hauling.

"L-little help, please?!" Frankie asked as she staggered in. "I've busted a stitch in my leg, and I'm afraid I'm about to-"

PAMF! She couldn't finish the sentence as her foot went one direction, and the rest of her went the other. Suddenly, the ghouls were covered in reams of colorful fabric.

"Oops." Frankie grinned sheepishly and sparked at the bolts.

Ascreama squealed, shocked at the sudden attack of fabric. She carefully fought with the cloth, trying to avoid gooing it and finally pulled herself free.

"Uh, sorry ghouls." Frankie apologised again, swiftly tugging the fabric away from Gryff and rolling it back onto the bolt.

"Yeah.. Now that you mention it," Ascreama began at the boo's curt tone, "It looks like a cheap imitation Scary White vintage print." She studied the colourful fabric, helping pull the lengths towards the stitched-together ghoul.
"I suppose it does evoke some 'nostalgic' vintage feelings. Maybe a throw-back piece?" She looked up at the griffon.

"Oh, I don't think we've met?"

"Er...." Kai cleared his throat a bit uncomfortably. "I think this is yours."

He held up Frankie's erstwhile leg. It wiggled its foot as if it was waving to Frankie, who'd pulled herself up on a nearby chair.

"Thanks! Just toss it here." She held up her hands. "Those scraps are from my sewing lab at home, sort of some this and thats I had lying around. I thought I could donate them to the A&C club in case anyone had any use for them!"

Kai shrugged and threw the leg over to Frankie. She deftly pulled out some thick twine and a large needle to sew it back into place. Kai politely looked in the other direction as the repairs took place and saw Gryff.

"Hey, Gryff! You made it! Welcome to the Arts & Crafts Club. We're not very structured....mostly we all sort of do our own things and help each other with advice and stuff. But sometimes we do coordinated projects too."

"Or, we used to, until it was Kai's turn to pick the project." Frankie added on, snipping the thread and testing the stitches on her leg. "You STILL haven't picked a group project for us to craft, Kai!"

"Well, uh...." Kai rubbed the back of his head. "I mean, I've been thinking about it, but uh...it's just that, you see...there are SO many possibilities. And not only that, but I've been so busy with Art Class's big project....which I....uh....haven't even actually started. Technically. Yet."

Yeah, he was behind. REALLY behind, in fact. Mid-terms were next week, and most of the students in Art Class were already halfway done with the project, or more. Kai squirmed uncomfortably.

"That's a-"

*POP!*

Kai sighed.

"That WAS a hot glue gun. The, uh, the bathroom is in the back hallway to the right." Kai winced at the gluesplosion now covering Lin.

"Yeah, it's just that it sort of puts a big snag in my plans tonight." Kai shrugged. "I was going to work on my Art Class project, but if I can't glue the plaster of scaris forms to the canvas I have stretched over the wire frame, then I might as well do something else."

Kai put a tarp over the random pieces of his project. Now he had no idea what to do during the club time.

"What are you working on tonight, Jewels?"

"Oh, gnarly, that's going to be clawesome!" Kai checked out the bag Jewels was planning to bedazzle. "Boy, you know, you could almost go into business doing this. I know I'd love to buy Demona a bag with rhinestone roses on it."

As the two of them chatted, the other Arts & Crafts club members got settled in and set up their projects. Mr. Deathknell floated near Kai and cleared his throat, making the young boo jump.

"Right! Sorry. I almost forgot. Guys, if you want to buy anything from the shop tonight, the Arrght-House gives a 25% discount to everyone during Arts & Crafts club. Just let me know what you'd like to get, and I'll ring you up. In fact, it's probably a good time for all of us to go around in a circle and describe to everyone what projects we're working on. I'll uh...I'll go last." Kai's eyes darted around, desperate to find a project to work on. Something had to leap out...something...

"Uh, Sally, why don't you go first?"

She flushed deeply at Kai's compliment. "Oh.. I just... nonono, i'mnotnearlygoodenough to charge." She was so flustered and flattered by his remark she quite failed to hear the last part about Demona.

"Ooo that's a greatidea!" Jewels squealed, clapping her hands enthusiastically at Sally's idea.

Lin was on Sally's left, and Gryff was on the gremlin's left, which if you think about it for a second, put Lin right in the middle of the two. A mostly free of the glue covered Lin (but there were still patches of the glue, dried now, spotted all over the gremlin.

(It had taken Gryff enough time to help de-glue his gremlin so they could get back to work.

Or so that Gryff could. Lin say right at his hero's side, and when Gryff barked out a request (command) for a certain tool, or a drink of water (coffin was mostly water!), Lin was there to oblige.