Hope you all like my first Nightmare Before Christmas story! I think its a cute story, like the Corpse Bride but all mixed up. Sorry for all the spelling/grammer mistakes, my spell check decided not to work for me today. :( Don't forget to REVIEW!
Disclaimer: I will never own all the wonderful character Tim Burton does.
Play Dead
CHAPTER 1: Every Girl's Worst Nightmare
Adriena sighed impatiently as the airbrush's cold air blasted against her leg. She watched in the mirror as her leg was slowly painted with a light blue that also covered her face, arms and all the way to the top of her strapless bikini top.
" Mom, can you hurry? The party is like two hours away." Adriena huffed.
" Sweetie, first we have to finish your legs and let the body paint dry." Her mother answered calmly. " Plus, your the one that insisted you be painted blue."
" Well I have to be if I want to pull of the living dead look, and win the that costume prize." The eighteen year old answered.
" Well you'd better be thankful that your mom's a make up artist." Her mom smirked, finishing her leg as she stood next to her daughter.
" I am mom, thanks." Adriena smiled as she pecked her mom on the cheek.
" Now, how do you think you want to die?" Her mother questioned.
" A stab wound? Bite Marks?" She suggested.
" I was thinking you can do I red line across my neck, and I can carry that fake knife with blood I bought earlier." Adriena explained.
" So you killed yourself?" Her mother asked, with a not so happy look.
" It's my senior year, I think I can decide how to be killed for a party." Adriena answered.
Her mother just raised her eyebrow; bad answer.
" Mom, it doesn't have to be all suicidal, maybe I'm seeking revenge on whoever killed me." Adriena suggested with a hopeful look.
" Well, I think we should just let your little brother use the fake knife this year. So I don't think you should have your neck slit." Her mother decided.
" Alright. I guess I can be every girl's worst nightmare then." Adriena sighed.
" That is..." Mother trailed.
" A corpse bride!" Adriena replied with a giggle.
" How did you die then?" Her mother asked with a laugh.
Adriena thought for a moment, before pulling on a somber face her eyes holding what seemed to be sincere sadness.
" A broken heart." She whispered, her bottom lip trembling.
" Bravo, I think you should get an acadamy award for that." Adriena's mother said with a smile, while Adriena took a bow.
" Now let's get that pale purple lipstick on and we should add a little more black under your eyes."
With that the two went work, soon Adreina was able to get in her outfit on. Soon a pale blue, dead looking Adriena came out in a white dress, dirtied and ripped. With translucent sleeves and the bottom half torn from her knees down. She added a boquet filled with dead flowers, a sheer veil smudged with dirt hanging on her head losely.
" Adriena!" Her mother smiled as she showed her the final product.
" Well?" She asked hopefully.
" You look absolutely-"
" Dead!" Adriena's little brother said coming into the room.
" Thanks, Jacob." Adriena laughed as she bent down to give him a hug.
" Okay, bye guys see you later!" Adriena exclaimed as she rushed out the door.
" Be home before twelve thirty!" Her mother called.
Adriena smiled and waved as she walked down the suberb street, children scampering door to door. She crossed the street as she walked into the forest, cutting her walking time in half to get to the party. Unkowing that six eyes watched her quietly.
" Is she good enough?" A boy with flaming red hair qeustioned, as he removed his devil's mask.
" Oogie Boogie, said it just had to be alive and human." A girl with a green face answered with a roll of her eyes.
" She looks pretty dead to me." A boy with a skeletal face snickered, taking a lick of his lollipop.
" I've never seen her around Halloweentown." The other boy argued, taking his his accomplice's candy and throwing it on the ground.
" Hey!" The other boy yelped as he made to tackel the red hair boy, before being stopped.
" Well there's only one way to find out if she's right for the job." The girl said as she grabbed the bickering boys by their colars.
" Follow me." She hissed, dropping them to the ground. The two boys instantly followed the green girl as a terrible plot was about to be put in action.
Meanwhile, a certain Pumkin King watched numbly as the love of his life shook her head slowly and backed away from him.
" I'm sorry, Jack." Sally whispered. " But I just can't marry you."
Okay, that was probably the shortest chapter I've every written. But this is my first story for Nightmare Before Christmas and I'm wondering how you all will take to a story where it's not Jack/Sally. Please NO FLAMES, but helpful critism is welcomed. THANKS!
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