"Is that how it works? I thought it was just everybody stayed with their own," Darius said, not having done this before. They were getting close to the cafeteria, which meant that they'd be going to different stations. No good mixing up the strawberry slushies with the... yeah.
On the other side, Darius found them a table for two kind of away from everybody else. He swallowed, then just launched into it.
"So my power. It's a ghost thing, and the teachers think I could get possessed, since I'm not any good at mental barriers yet and Halloween's the time when ghosts get all up in your business. The deal is I either get to have a fun evening hanging out with the teachers, or I need someone to hang out with me and notice if I start acting crazy. You up for that?"
He felt really pathetic having to ask, but what else could he do?