Yay for the longest chapter yet, oho slight bit of cliffy a the end, well kinda. So yes, im still updating! :

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I glanced at it and Paine caught me again, "What?" she snapped. Which is rather impolite seeing as I was just looking at her, "Paine, I think you are very rude." I said with an air of arrogance, "Stop staring at my skirt then!" she replied, "What skirt?!" I asked incredulously, "it's basically your underwear with no crotch!" She hmphed, "It's better than wearing a skin-tight dress." I smirked, "at least you can tell what mine is."

That is the conversation me and Paine had when we first tried on our outfits, Yunie was still in the bathroom after I'd made sure I'd child proofed everything, you can't have Yuna spending a long time any where without putting up protection. Deciding on how best to move in this dress, I was looking for my make-up when Tidus walked in, not knocked but just walked right in. "Ahhhh." He screamed, I looked up alarmed as he was covering his eyes and walking about. I seriously considering calling for Yuna to help when I thought better off it.

"Tidus! Tidus?!" I said, grabbing onto him. "Ahhhh! Make it put clothes on." He smirked. Jerking his head towards Paine, "it's a cruelty to humanity." I hit him on the arm, "I was actually worried about you.", "I know, that was an added bonus." He said, eyes searching our room, not finding what he wanted, he continued, "Yuna?" pointing to the bathroom door; not waiting for a response, he barged on it and slammed the door behind him.

Yuna screamed and then there was talking and then silence, ew. I hate when they do that and I'm here. Me and Paine just looked at each other and continued on getting ready.

"Riks, I know that outfit isn't just for Ben." She said with a smirk.

I ignored her, some people just exceed their rudeness limit for one day and this day was Paine's. Tidus burst out of the bathroom in his own little dramatic way, I rolled my eyes and looked at him, he was flushed and his dark hair was ruffled. I gave him a disgusted look and he gave me the finger and walked out. He's charming really. I was secretly thrilled, Brad is not good enough for Yunie, not that Tidus is but at least he's relatively interesting whereas talking to that wall of mine is preferable to standing near Brad. Maybe I'm just a tiny bit biased.

Yunie comes out later with her new fringe, I helped give her to hide that horrible war injury, seriously who made hovers so dangerous? Probably Pop, he likes to see people suffer. Her hair with her new fringe and extensions looks impossibly gorgeous and her mini white dress is glittery and clings to her in all the right places (not that she didn't complain it was too tight and continually pulled and tugged at it until I snapped at her to stop), her wings are beautiful too and the halo compliments the outfit perfectly. All in all, no one will beat Yunie in the beautiful stakes and if they try, I am going to push them down the stairs.

I gasped, "Yunie, you are beautiful." She blushes and it barely makes a difference to her already unnaturally flushed skin, realisation dawns on me.

"That is disgusting, in my bathroom." I say with distaste, "our," Paine corrects.

"That is disgusting, in our bathroom! Think of Paine, she cuts herself in there, you might get aids, Paine!" I correct myself.

Paine rolls her eyes and Yunie blushes again, she acts like she's little miss innocent but I know better. I am about to continue my rant on how disgusting it is in our bathroom when Yunie interrupts, "I could give you details if you wanted..", I gasped. She is now joining Paine in the sadist stakes, I give her a disgusted look and storm out and bash right into someone so we end up in a heap on the floor.

From somewhere beneath me I hear a faint, "I hate you.", and then a shove so I ended up on my arse, ah Tidus.

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Having put the finishing touches to my makeup, I got Yuna to put my hair up in pigtails and put the black boots on. Looking in the mirror, I smiled, I could see Yunie standing behind me with an excited but confused face, I sighed. "Yunie, I'm Harley Quinn, she's the Jokers lover."

"Oh, oh right!" she smiled; looking at my black and red checked dress, the black boots and the aces drawn on my arm, she really does suit being an angel, I just hope she didn't kill herself by falling down the stairs in those shoes or killing me with those wings. Health hazard they are, though it was hilarious when they poked Paine in the eye; we laughed so much; we had to redo our makeup, well me and Yunie did, Paine just threatened to stab us if we told anyone; which I'll try my best not too.

Starring in wonder at Paine's gall, Yunie stammered as bravely as she could, "Paine, don't you think you should bring a jacket or something?". I tried, I really did but I couldn't stop the giggle escaping from my mouth.

Turning to glare at me, Paine addressed Yunie, "Why?" she said as icily as she could.

Yunie not noticing the frost that had just formed around us, couldn't help herself, "because," she started nervously, "boys are going to see parts of you they shouldn't!"

Ah, Yunie's lovely innocent upbringing, I really don't know how Tidus managed to get her too, you know in the spring; a perfectly public place. Must put that down on my list of "Amazing things Tidus does.", not that I like him. Not that he's amazing. Not that I have a list!

Paine just clenched her fists and tried to find the words to explain, feeling generous; I offered, "Yunie," I addressed my naïve best friend, "some people such as Paine, well they don't really mind boys seeing parts of their privates."

Paine looked ready to hang, draw and quarter, "What?" I asked, I was only trying to help, god no appreciation from the world these days. Glancing over to the pensive looking Yunie, I prayed she wasn't about to say something that we would all regret, she must of sensed my apprehensive mood.

"Paine, I think that's nice." She said and smiled, like the angel she is. I breathed a sigh of relief while Paine the vampire turned away to put her teeth in and find her cape which I'm nearly certain Gippal hid under my bed yesterday when he was here, not that I'm going to tell her, she can look for it.

Around half an hour later, after a small argument in which Paine threw a shoe at an unsuspecting me for supposedly hiding her bloody cape under my bed, when I asked her why I would, she threw the other shoe at me; I am terribly abused. We decided to head to the hall where the dance is being held; deciding we were far too independent for an escort. Guess which one of us deciding that. I mean what I wouldn't give for someone to help me walk in these boots; Yunie isn't exactly the best person to lean on.

Strutting into the hall, well as best as we could in these shoes, me and Yuna gasped, the place was so different than it usually was, there was now a big space in the middle, presumably as a dance floor and massive sphere speakers with Mrs Rogue on DJ duty, along one side of the room was a buffet with loads of sweets and punch and about 40 small tables seating about 12 people and a bar for the senior students with I.D, Mr Jones was surveying the drinkers carefully.

The decorations were truly spectacular, "Wow, they really went all out this year." I whispered to Yunie. There were black and orange streamers strung from every light fixture and painting, a massive banner above the sphere speakers saying "Happy Hallowe'en; who are you tonight?", skeletons hung from the ceilings and a talking vampire doll that spoke when someone walked past it. On every chair was a sign saying "trick or treat." and all the food was served in cauldrons and skulls.

The lights were flashing and the music was blaring but you could still see that the dancefloor was packed with brilliant costumes not that you could tell who anyone was in this light. I know dinner was served at 8, we would have to wait until then for the gossiping about who's wearing what to begin.

Glancing at my the clock at the back of the room, I realised I had about 20 minutes until then, I convinced Yunie to go over to the bar, her being the oldest to go get us some drinks, vodka and coke for me; g&t for Paine and some fruity mix for herself. I saw Mr Jones serve Yunie straight away as she was the best student he has probably ever had.

We found our table and took our seats putting our drinks down, when I heard Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na NaNa Na Na Na Na Na, I looked at Yunie and we squealed, Paine just rolled her eyes and sighed when we jumped up and headed for the floor.

Raising our hands above our heads, back to back me and Yunie starting singing,

"I just lost my husband
I don't know where he went
So I'm gonna drink my money
I'm not gonna pay his rent
I got a brand new attitude
And I'm gonna wear it tonight
I wanna get in trouble
I wanna start a fight"

"So so what? I'm still a rock star…" I started when suddenly my back pressed against someone's chest; well I'm not sure who all I could see was some purple and feel his hands on my hips. Deciding it felt nice and going with it, I danced with him through the whole song until the end when his lips touched my ear with a "thanks." And by the time I turned around, he was gone but I did make out black and green hair.

Smiling the whole way back to the table, I sat next to Paine; she smirked, "told you that outfit wasn't just for Ben.", I smiled again.

"Shiva, that's scary." She said. I ignored her and the music stopped and Mr. Crooks, the principal could be heard through the microphone, "Please take your seats, dinner will be served shortly."

Soon Yuna came over and sat down with a dreamy smile on her face too, I smiled knowingly at her. Our table filled up but I couldn't make out who was opposite us until the lights came on and I gasped.

Sitting to my left was Ben, dressed with a cape and a wand; a wizard apparently. How camp I thought, not that I said because I am considerate person unlike some such as Paine who laughed openly and asked what he could do with his "wand". Yuna is to my right and Brad beside her, he was, well I'm not too sure, he had a suit and a top hat, I should probably ask to be polite but I'm not that interested. Paine is on the other side of Brad, as her vampy self with Bill to her right as a sailor, I mean really? How ridiculous, I might steal his hat.

What shocked me the most was facing me, which was Gippal clad in a purple suit with a blue shirt, a green waistcoat with white makeup, black rimmed eyes and red lips. Straight black and green hair. The Joker. He was dressed as the Joker. A flash back of purple and it struck me that it was him that had shared that "intimate" dance with me. He looked up as I was staring openly at him and he winked just as Yunie hissed, "stop gaping at him!", I closed my mouth and focused on the blonde skank beside him, I thought he had ditched her, apparently not. That might have just been my over active imagination playing up again or just wishful thinking.

She had a black crop top on with a yellow and black B in the middle with a black skirt and cape. It was laughable really, Batgirl. Did she really think the Joker and Batgirl went at all together? How pathetic, she probably hasn't realized that the Joker is spoken for. Hmm, this sounds familiar.

Moving on swiftly before I tear up again, facing Yunie and to the right of Gippal was Tidus, I assume he is some sort of Demon with red contacts, a red trench coat, some huge boots, a sword and some hideously looking scars on his face, he was staring at Yunie and she blushed, realization hit me; shagging and dancing all in one day, he sure doesn't waste any time.

His girlfriend to the right was wearing a devil costume, probably the same one about half the girls here are dressed as with the red cape, skin tight red cat suit and the horns. So overdone.

Baralai had wings. Black wings. Black jeans, Black shoes, Black shirt. I think he borrowed everything from Tidus. Maybe he's dressed as Tidus, now that is scary. Haha.

He smiled at something the brunette to his right said and I spotted fangs, Tidus with fangs?

"Tidus, didn't someone tell you this is a fancy dress party?" I asked, politely, making a point of staring at the scars.

He smiled, "Of course they did, that is why I am in costume," he paused, looking me up and down and before I could speak, continued,"Apparently no one told you though, you seem to be missing various parts of your costume."

I smirked, "I would have thought you had learnt a little more about fashion Tidus, dresses are counted as an outfit these days, no wonder you can't get a girl." I retorted, sighing for effect.

He grinned, "I would have thought you wouldn't have wanted to know about what happened in the bathroom earlier, I mean if it's tips your looking for.."

"Touché," I said hurriedly before he could speak again, changing the subject I asked, "what is 'Lai dressed as anyway?" flicking my glaze to the wonderful bookworm.

Tidus gave me a strange look, "he's a bat, clearly."

"Oh yes because that was so obvious, fangs and wings obviously makes you a bat, everyone knew that instantly, of course." I replied, my voice dripping with sarcasism.

Ignoring me, he turned to his slut and started a conversation with her; sipping my drink, after eating our meal, everyone sat comfortably in their seats for an hour or so, I noticed Paine and Baralai talking quite a lot. Hmm, getting my phone out, I texted her "Quite chatty tonight aren't you?". She didn't reply, getting bored, I glanced around and saw Gippal looking at me, his date no where to be seen.

"Yes?" I enquired, politely.

"Nothing, I just forgot how good a dancer you were." He said, smiling.

I blushed, I couldn't help it; I mean he is quite the charmer really. "Oh yeah? I forgot how good you were too." I replied.

How embarrassing, that is quite possibly the worst reply in the history of horrible replies.

At this stage, Yunie puts a hand on my shoulder and stands up, smiles and walks out. Tidus follows her. Ew.

He smiles again and leans over the table and says "You get the best seat in the house for Armageddon. Say goodnight, Harley. I always wanted to see my dame in lights.Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it."

My heart flutters, a Joker quote, the closest thing to romance.

My phone beeps and I look at it, "quite flirty tonight, are you?" Oh haha, Paine is hilarious.

I am still basically glowing an hour later, after a few dances when Tidus bursts through the doors, striding dramatically towards our table; his jaw set in anger and his eyes glittering madly. I try to walk to him but he pushes me away and Yuna runs behind him, "it's not what it looks like!" she shouts as Tidus launches himself at Brad and lands his fist straight onto Brad's nose.

The crunch and the yelling makes everyone turn around.


Bit of a cliffy, yes? : oh how i love the joker. please review! i wanna know what you think about anything in the story, about the characters, about the school. anything. i considering starting a new story, a HP one. but yes, reviews are love!