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SPELLTON ESTATE
ROCKY HORROR ROOM
Saturday, October 31st
7:45 p.m.

Keelin wasn't surprised that the room was mostly girls. HoHo was bobbing her head along to music. A few girls from her Physical Education class, all dressed cats, were in the background, giggling. Keelin, however, was teaching Pam the Time Warp. Apparently Pam had never seen the movie, while Keelin and her mother watched it nearly every year.

Every year, Keelin understood a little more, and wondered why her mother let her watch it.

It's just a jump to the left.

The advantage of having Pam around, at least for Keelin, was it was someone else that had trouble talking to boys. Though, Pam was getting better and better at it.

Then a step to the right.

As well, Pam picked up on dances much quicker than anyone Keelin had ever met. She showed the dance to Pam once, and she was already performing it flawlessly.

You put your hands on your hips.

Pam, as well, was just about Keelin's size, just several inches shorter. Then again, everyone was shorter than Keelin. But, it was nice to have someone to share clothing with, even though Pam was the one getting the benefits. Keelin had only borrowed a denim skirt from Pam, and that was for a mock-photo shoot. Madge wanted to show her Texan friends that all her friends from Westchester weren't all OCDivas. It hadn't exactly worked out in the end.

And bring your knees in tight.

It was evident that Pam was reluctant to really get into the dance. But the other girls were sloppily copying Keelin's moves, just a beat behind.

"I hear that they do these midnight shows of the movie," one girl said, interrupting what was usually Keelin's solo, but Keelin was interested in what the girl had to say. "And they have all these rituals that involve yelling things and throwing toilet paper."

"Yeah, and actors stand in front of the screen and act it out as the movie is going," another girl said.

"It's true," HoHo said. "My sister goes. If it's your first time, they taunt you and call you a virgin and stuff."

"What's a virgin?" the first girl asked.

Pam snorted at that. One thing that Keelin had learned about Pam was that she had a good vocabulary, well, adult vocabulary at least. She wasn't so good with the acronyms that flooded the OCD vocab, but Pam had more than once helped Keelin's mother finish a crossword puzzle. On the other hand, apparently most of the girls that went to OCD were sheltered from life.

"Should you tell her?" Pam quietly asked Keelin. "Or should I?"

"A virgin is someone that has never kissed a boy," the second girl stated loudly and proudly.

"Ehmagawd!" the girl gasped. "I am so not a virgin."

Pam and Keelin began laughing.

"That's not what a being a virgin means," HoHo said. She shook her head and flipped her brown hair "Seriously, what is wrong with you? You can kiss a boy and still be a virgin. When you lip-kiss a boy is when you lose your virginhood."

"No, let's just let this play out," Keelin said quietly. She smiled a bit. "This will be so funny when it spreads."

"Oh, then I haven't lost my virginhood yet," the second girl said. Then, she turned to Keelin and Pam. The other girls and HoHo turned as well. "What about you, Keelin?"

"I've lip-kissed a boy," Keelin said, non-chalantly.

However, what was really on Keelin's mind was what the girls had said about the movie, getting played at midnight. She knew her mother would never let her go to a midnight show, especially not alone. As it was, Keelin wouldn't want to go without her friends. But, what if she chose a different movie and did the same thing, only at her house... or possibly convince Madge into it as Madge's house had a home theater. She could create a tradition that would be fun and her idea. She'd be more than just the girl with the fashion. She'd be the girl with the ideas.

She only had to choose a movie, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show was not an option, though the idea of a musical seemed nice. She could finally show off her singing and dancing.

"Honestly, really!"

The yell came from outside and all the girls, Pam and Keelin included, ran to the windows to see what was happening. Of course, they all recognized the voice as belonging to Michelle. Keelin had been laughing with Michelle when a shaken, pale Pam had approached to tell her the news twenty minutes earlier. Michelle had tried to stay calm, but immediately turned and went to track Ringo down. Apparently, Michelle had found him.

Ringo Blake and Juli Spellton were at the party together, couples costume. There was obviously something going on between the two, which was made more obvious by the way Juli had draped herself over Ringo's shoulders earlier, according to Pam.

Keelin hadn't seen Ringo yet, but she had to give Juli props, even if not outloud. It took guts to pull off peacock feathers and snakeskin in one outfit, but she did, even if both were probably faux. Though Keelin wasn't sure if the alligator boots with the fur trim on top were faux or not.

By this time, Michelle had tracked down Ringo and was giving him a piece of her mind.

"Who does she think she is, talking to him like that?" girl one asked.

"Look at those puppy-dog sad eyes," the other girl said.

"Who cares what he looks like," HoHo said. She crossed her arms over her chest. "He's a cheat at Apples to Apples."

The other girls in the room all looked at HoHo. "How do you cheat at that game?"

"Talk about sore loser," the second girl said.

Keelin turned back to the scene unfolding on the lawn between Ringo and Michelle. The party guests were forming a circle around the two as it had become a main attraction.

"You don't have a decent bone in your body, Blake," Michelle snapped. "Ditching your friends to drool over Spellton!"

Ringo laughed, and even Keelin, from her distance, felt a little weak in the knees. He had that effect on a lot of girls though Keelin had been attempting to build a resistance for a few years. "If you had asked me to be your Julius Caesar I would have donned a toga, maybe," Ringo said.

The speed at which Michelle's hand flew through the air and the crack of her palm hitting his face was stunning, frightening even. Ringo went stumbling, then brought his hand up to where she had hit. Michelle was trembling in anger.

"What is her problem?" the first girl asked.

"Michelle and Ringo are close friends," Pam said quietly. It was a small fact that the Beauty Brigade knew, but rarely acknowledged. "And he didn't tell her."

"Well, he should learn to keep better company," the girl said.

Keelin stepped back from the window and turned to the movie again. Tim Curry had finally made his appearance. Part of her just wanted to hear the gasps from the other girls at what he wore. After all, they got a dumbed down version from Glee, but nothing more probably.

But they didn't turn around for a while as the scene continued to unfold.

So, what do you think so far? What are your thoughts on a Juli-Ringo hook-up? Ringli? How about this blossoming friendship between Pam and Keelin? Do they seem like a good friendship?

So, we're gonna meet a few new people in this story. One is HoHo. Then there will be Jenna and Aiden... and of course the 8th-grade Tomahawks.