Cece's POV

I was so excited! It was around Halloween time. Everyone I knew was picking out their costumes and getting ready. We decided not to go trick-or-treating, but dressing up was so fun. I was dressing up as The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. My costume was really cute. Rocky, Tinka, and I were doing, like, a group costume. You know, when everyone dresses up from the same theme?

I was waiting for Rocky to come over with her laptop and a bunch of clothes that she didn't like anymore but still fit her. She wanted me to help her come up with a costume for her. She decided to be the Cheshire Cat, and she's probably going to be really cute. Tinka was already here with me and her costume. She insisted on being Alice. Frankly, I was a little scared to see what her costume is. I was expecting a light blue dress with a giant hoop skirt and red bows scattered all over it.

Suddenly, Rocky carefully entered through the window, as she always does. She was carrying a big, pink laundry basket full of clothes that I could already tell weren't the cutest. As she came over to the couch, I could see that Tinka was disgusted.

"Those better have sparkles," she said.

"Hopefully not too many," I added.

"THERE ARE NEVER TOO MANY SPARKLES!" Tinka screamed.

"Okay, okay." I walked over to Rocky, who was now standing at the edge of the couch, watching us. "Give me that," I commanded, taking the basket from her and spilling it all over the floor in the process.

Tinka walked over to something that had fallen out and held it up. It was a brown and magenta striped tee shirt.

"That's perfect, Tinka! I should totally use that," Rocky decided.

"But it needs something," protested Tinka.

"What?"

"Ribbon. Do you have any, Cece?"

"Say no, say no, say no!" whispered Rocky.

"Uh...no?" I said.

"Vhatever. I'll just run home and grab some." Tinka agreed to herself, skipping out the door with her costume. Rocky and I ran to the door after her and locked it. It wasn't worth it, we could do this without her.

Later we had decided on the shirt that Tinka found, a pair of matching magenta leggings, and light brown flats. I told Rocky that I was going to lend her a pair of cat ears that I used for a Halloween costume when I was seven.

All of the sudden, there was a knock on the door and the sound of someone trying to open it. That's when I remembered that I'd locked the door.

"Let me in!" I couldn't tell who was saying that, because the door muffled them, but I could tell it was a girl. I ran to the door to open it. It was Tinka.

"Sorry, I could not find any ribbon."

"That's okay," reassured Rocky.

"Did you finish?"

"Yeah, but it seems like all of us have our costumes with us. Should we try them on and see how we look?"

"Sure, I guess," agreed Rocky.

For the next five minutes we all went to change. We decided not to do our makeup because we were only going to be in our costumes for a couple minutes and it just wouldn't make sense. First I came out and played with my hat until Rocky came out. She was obviously next. She looked really cute in her costume and ears. I made a note to lend her my old tail too, which we'd forgotten about. It took a minute for Tinka to come out.

"Press play!" She yelled to us. That's when I noticed that she's brought in a CD player. I went over to it and pressed play. That song that played during the credits of the 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie started to play. Rocky and I looked over at us and silently chuckled. Tinka, Tinka, Tinka. That's when she came out. Her costume was even more outrageous than I imagined! It was way too much for simple Alice. But we didn't dare tell her that. She had multiple red ribbons in her hair and wore randomly hot pink heels.

We decided that these costumes were perfect. Well, Rocky and mine were. Tinka, Tinka, Tinka.