Authors Note: Hey guys, I just got back from Disneyland, California Adventure and Universal Studios the other day, I had a blast! I got loads of ideas for my stories, all three of them, yes that's right THREE. This should be a new obstacle to get through, but I can do it! Anywho, hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Flower Girl- lol yup! Halloween on Christmas, it's like the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, it was made up like the movie Nightmare Before Christmas. It was awesome! Lol yup the Halloween bash is this chapter! Woot! And yeah I got to beat up Shawn! Ha that'd be fun to do in real life. Yeah 15 ppl, soon 16, its getting crazy! Lol very unique skit, loved it like normal though: D. Anywho hope u like this chapter! (gosh, I swear I need to lay off the exclamation points lol)
Yukixtohru- Thanks and of course there's another chapter, right here! Since it's going to be longer the Dear Diary, there will be more then 27 chapters to look forward to!
"blank"- yeah there was a lot of swearing but like I said, I was kinda in a grumpy mood when I wrote that, and hey it made the story have more 'pizzazz' lol. Welp, I finally got around to updating, hope u like it!
Chapter 10- The Halloween Bash
The girls and I finally arrived to Town Square. I gazed out at the area. It was a shopping plaza with tons of stores linked together. A few restaurants and fast food joints were placed randomly in the plaza. Tables were placed out in front of the food places if you wanted to eat outside. Birds hopped along eating crumbs left over from the people eating outside. The water fountains that shimmered with coins people threw in them had benches place in front. The community kept it clean so it kept that new look even though it was nearly ten years old.
"Wow," Alexa said looking around.
"Cool huh?" Lissa said.
"Yeah!" she replied with much enthusiasm. I laughed.
"Let's split up into two groups," Selphie suggested.
"Who's going with who?" Namine asked.
"Lissa and Lulu can come with me," Selphie smiled.
"Alright," Lulu said. Lissa nodded.
"Okay, let's go!" Amanda said running to a near by boutique as Namine, Alexa, and me followed. The little store had very casual young adult clothes for both genders. They had a section for Halloween costumes too. We started to search through the racks. A girl, our age, with short brown with one green eye and the other one blue which were very pretty, and a tall slender body walked up to us. Her voice was very gentle.
"Can I help you with anything?" she asked politely. Everyone turned to her.
"Actually, yeah. Do you have any Disney costumes?" Namine asked.
"Like Princesses?" the girl asked. Nam nodded. "Yes, over here." She led Namine to a rack a little bit down for where we were.
"Oh, I wanna look!" Alexa said going over too. I looked out the large glass windows. To my surprise, Tidus was walking in.
"Hey Tidus," I smiled.
He waved walking over. "Having any luck?" he asked.
"Just started looking," Amanda informed him. "How about you guys?"
"They actually went to eat," Tidus laughed.
"Figures," I laughed too. I saw Tidus looking around until he suddenly froze. I followed his gaze to see what he was looking at. The female associate, Namine, and Alexa were looking at costumes when the girl looked up. A smile crept on my face.
"Hi," she smiled. Tidus gulped.
"H-hi," he said. "I'm… I… I'm Tidus."
She giggled. "Hi, I'm Yuna," she replied. She looked at us. "Sorry, I never introduced myself."
"Oh, it's okay," I reassured her. "I'm Kairi."
"Amanda," Amanda waved.
"Namine."
"Alexa."
"Nice to meet you all," Yuna said.
"Same," I smiled. Tidus stood still and dumbstruck. He quickly snapped out of it and began to look through the costume rack frantically but glanced up at the new teenage girl. I couldn't help but laugh. I shook my head smiling and continued to look for a costume.
"Oh my gosh!" Amanda yelled excitedly pulling out a costume. She held up a renaissance dress that flowed out to the ground. The outside was a shiny pearly white, while the inside layer was a shiny burgundy. The sleeves were tight until the elbow where it belled out. The lace was shimmery. "It's perfect!"
"Amanda, that's so you," I smiled. She grinned in return. The rest of us continued to look. Soon Alexa found her outfit, which was the same dress that Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, wore in the formal dance, except instead of it being yellow, it was pink.
"Yay, I found a costume!" she exclaimed. Namine and me laughed. Yuna continued to help Namine while Tidus and I looked around. Tidus still continued to glance up every once in a while.
"Tidus, you're drooling. Just go talk to her," I said. He gave me a nervous laugh.
"I will… just not now," he said. I rolled my eyes. A costume finally grabbed my attention and apparently Namine found one too since we both held them up at the same time. She held up the blue gown Cinderella had worn to the ball.
I had an angel costume. It was pure white, a low cut 'V'-neck, raggedly cut at the bottom that went to my knees. The sleeves were long and bell shaped. The wings were soft little feathers. The halo was the same feathery material with ribbons hanging on the back.
"Perfect," I smiled at my angel costume.
"If you guys are ready, I can help you over here," Yuna said walking over to the cash register. We paid for our costumes and thanked Yuna for all her help. We started out the door when I noticed Yuna walk to the back room and Tidus standing at the counter.
"Come on Tidus," I called to him while the girls were talking outside. He turned to me.
"Go on with out me," he waved. I smiled and met up with Namine, Amanda and Alexa.
"Where's Tidus?" Namine asked.
"He's talking to Yuna," Amanda smiled. I looked at her surprised.
"How'd you know?" I questioned.
"It's so obvious that he likes her," Alexa said.
"Yuna kept asking about him when she was helping me find a costume," Namine mentioned.
"Well, it looks like Tidus wont be left out after all, just like what I said before," I smiled. The three of them smiled back.
"You guys!" we heard a little ways off. Selphie, Lissa and Lulu were running to us. "We found costumes!"
"Same here," Amanda held up hers. We all showed each other what we had. Lissa held up a gypsy outfit that was a deep velvet purple color and gold. Lulu held up a very gothic costume with chains, spikes, and blacks and deep reds. Selphie held up a Destiny High cheerleading outfit that was our school colors with a large 'D' on the front. I raised an eyebrow.
"A cheerleader?" I asked.
"Yeah, I know, but hey it's the only time of year you can be something you're not," Selphie shrugged.
"True," I agreed. I saw the boys walking up. We all quickly hid our costumes behind our backs.
"Hey, you guys decided what you're going to be?" Wakka asked.
"Yep!" Selphie smiled.
"Are you going to show us?" Irvine said.
"Nope!" we all said in unison.
"Woah… surround sound," Riku said looking at us.
"How come?" Sora asked.
"It's a surprise silly!" I grinned. They al rolled their eyes.
"Hey, where's Tidus?" Cloud looked around.
"In there." I pointed behind me in the boutique. Everyone turned to look.
"He's talking to her!" Alexa cried out excitedly. All of us ran to the windows and peered inside. I'm sure it looked funny with fourteen teenagers gluing their faces to the window to see inside.
"Who's that girl?" Blake asked.
"Her name is Yuna," Namine answered.
"She works here," Amanda added.
"Does he like her?" Lissa questioned.
"Seems like it," Lulu said. We fell silent trying to see if we could hear what they were talking about.
"Can anyone understand them?" Riku asked.
"It sounds like a bunch of mumbling to me," Josh responded.
"Same here," Selphie said. Yuna smiled and so did Tidus. They walked out of our view behind some manikins in the front of the store.
"Hey! Where'd they go?" Cloud said. We all looked but didn't see either of them.
"Wait, there's Yuna!" Amanda said.
"Then where's Tidus?" Sora asked.
"Uh, what are you guys doing?" a voice from behind asked. We all turned around.
"Well, he's right there," I said answering Sora's question.
"Were you guys spying me?" Tidus asked.
"No," we all replied simultaneously. 'Well, that's not obvious.' I thought sarcastically.
"So who's the girl?" Wakka asked.
"Yuna. She's been home schooled but she's actually going to Destiny High at the end of the month," Tidus said.
"Oh how cool!" I smiled.
"I asked her to the Halloween Bash," he said.
"Way to go!" Cloud said giving him a high five.
"I told you you'd find someone!" I reminded him. He only laughed.
The boys got their Halloween shopping after our discussion on Yuna and Tidus. Over the weekend we practiced our songs for the Halloween Bash. The songs we picked were 'Time of Your Life', 'Wake Me Up When September Ends', 'Someone' for Lissa, and 'Don't Even Try it', and 'Haunted' for me to sing to Shawn. They were perfect for my feelings towards him. As the month progressed, we got more excited about the dance.
Finally, it was here. All the guys decided to get ready at Cloud's while the girls got ready at my house. Namine, Alexa, Selphie, Lissa and Lulu piled into the bathroom and Alexa's room while Amanda and me were in my room. Amanda was looking in my closet as I was applying glitter to my eyelids to give me the angelic look.
"Hey Kairi, what's this?" Amanda pulled out a box labeled 'memories', the one I had shown Namine before homecoming last year.
"Oh, that's a box I keep things in so I can go back every once in a while to look back on," I responded as she handed me the box. Amanda sat next to me on the bed as I opened it. I looked through the box with all my old memories, I was rummaging through when I spotted that soda tab that had an 'S' written on it, I pulled it out.
"This brings back memories," I sighed. Amanda looked at me kind of with a worried expression.
"Didn't you say that whatever letter you land on they could potentially be your future boyfriend or girlfriend?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah…" I said still not catching on to what she was getting at.
"Look at the letter Kai," she said holding it up.
"Yeah an 'S'. So what it's Sora…" I said completely clueless.
"No, no, no. Who else starts with an 'S' that we know of?" she asked. My mind was flipping through all the names I knew, it seemed to take a while before it clicked. My stomach dropped. I felt sick to my stomach. I gulped.
"Shawn," I said as if someone knocked the air out of me. Amanda continued to look worried.
"Hey are you guys ready?" Alexa asked coming into my room. We both looked up.
"Yeah," We both said standing up.
"The guys are downstairs. I think we should all go one at a time," Selphie told us. All of us nodded in agreement.
"I'll go first. I'll announce!" Alexa exclaimed. Her brown hair was up just like Belle's. The gown fit her well. Alexa smiled before heading down the stairs.
"Where are all the girls?" I heard Riku ask.
"First up is Lulu," we heard Alexa announce. Lulu had dark make-up on to match her gothic costume. She waved at us as she made her way down.
"Man Lu, you look hott!" Wakka exclaimed. All of us laughed upstairs.
"Next is Selphie!" Selphie grabbed her orange and golden yellow pom-poms before jogging down the stairs.
"She could pass as a cheerleader..." Namine said.
"Yeah she could," Lissa agreed.
"The next girl is Namine!" Alexa called. Our Cinderella dressed Namine waved before leaving.
"Cloud's probably breathless." Amanda laughed Lissa and me did too.
"Up next, Amanda!"
"Well, I'll see you in a second," Amanda said.
"Okay," I smiled as she walked away. I sighed. For some reason, I was nervous… or anxious, I couldn't even tell. I also had that thought of Amanda's and my discussion on the soda tab in the back of my head. I quickly glanced at my outfit. My white, two-inched heals were laced up to my mid-calf. Not a crease was in my white angel costume. In the hallway mirror I was my face with light colored make-up and glitter. My hair was wavy and my little halo was placed perfectly on my head and the ribbons on the back were at the length of my hair.
"Nervous?" Lissa asked.
"For some reason, yeah," I laughed hastily.
"Tonight should be fun Kai," she said reassuringly.
"Yeah I know."
"Lissa is up!" Lissa looked at me shyly before walking down to meet the others.
"Why am I so nervous?" I asked myself. I let out a small sigh.
"Last but not least, Kairi!" Finally I had been announced. I ran my hands down my dress before slowly walking down the stairs. I walked down the stairs before making the turn into the hallway to see everyone. I knew my parents were there. I took a deep breath before turning. Thirty-two eyes gazed up at me (A/N: wowo that's a LOT of eyes). A small smile took over my face as I grabbed the rail to get down the last steps. I finally reached the bottom and walked up to Sora who was at the bottom.
"Wow…" he whispered. "You look beautiful tonight Kairi."
"Thanks," I blushed. "You all look good."
Sora was a skater boy. He had a big blue shirt on with the words 'Volcom' on the front. He wore baggy pants and big skater shoes. Sora also had on kneepads and elbow pads, a helmet hanging off the side of his head unbuckled and black fingerless gloves.
Riku was a vampire. A long black cape covered the back of his black tux. When he smiled, I noticed he had fangs. I let out a small laugh.
Surprisingly Cloud was Prince Charming. It worked perfectly for Namine being Cinderella.
Blake was surprisingly matching Alexa's costume idea by being the beast in his human form. Those two looked so cute.
Josh was dressed up as a basketball player, Wakka was soccer player, and Tidus was a football player. Obviously they all went for the sporting scene. Irvine dressed as a cowboy, very fitting for him.
"Well, we should start going," Josh said. All of us agreed.
"Have fun kids," my dad said as we started out the door.
"Stay safe," my mom called. I waved to them before closing the door.
"We should use cars…" Amanda said.
"Why?" Cloud asked.
"Because we're all in heels," she answered.
"Okay, so how are we going to do this?" Riku asked.
"How about Sora, Alexa, Blake, Tidus, and me in my car. Riku, Amanda, Lulu, Wakka, and Lissa in Riku's car. Cloud, Namine, Selphie, Irvine, and Josh in Cloud's car," I suggested.
"Sounds good, 'cept I'll drive," Sora said pulling out his keys. We all began to separate to get to each car. After the fifteen of us got into three cars, we drove to school. Yuna met us out front. She was dressed as a singstress (A/N: the purple outfit she wears in FF-X2).
"Kids!" someone called from the gym entrance. We all looked over. Our principal was waving for our attention. "Come this way! We're going to introduce you in five minutes!" He went inside and so did we. One Destiny warmed up while Alexa, Blake, Lissa, Josh, Wakka, Lulu, and Yuna waited for us to perform. We sang our first three songs before we introduced Lissa.
"We have a special guest. Lissa, can you come up," Sora motioned her on stage. I handed her a mic. She smiled shyly.
"I asked Kairi if I could sing tonight. For these last couple months I've gained her trust and vise-versa. She knows my real reason for being up here tonight. Now I'd like to share it with all of you," Lissa pulled out some pieces of paper, which were the drawings of her and Josh. "Here Josh, these are for you and same with this song." We all got ready as Sora helped her sing her song.
Everyone went wild. Josh seemed completely shocked that someone would do that for him. He looked over at me and made me hand him a mic.
"Melissa. I care and feel the same way. Please tell me you'll be my someone." We all looked from Josh to Lissa. A grin appeared on her face.
"Of course." The school whooped, clapped, and cheered. She got off stage and Josh greeted her with a kiss and hug. She blushed.
"Let's give Melissa another round of applause for that wonderful performance!" I said getting the mic back. The crowd did so. "This next song is for a special someone out in the audience." (A/N: I love this song, it works for the feelings towards Shawn and for Halloween).
Long lost words whisper slowlyto meStill can't find what keeps me hereWhen all this time I've been so hollowinside(I know you're still there)
Watching meWanting meI can feel you pull me downFearing youloving youI wont let you pull me down
Hunting you I can smellyou—aliveYour heart pounding in my head
Watching mewanting meI won't let you pull me downSaving meRaping meWatching me
(Riku's guitar solo with a spot light. The girls in the crowd were screaming)
Watching me (I sang the Ooh)Wanting me (Ooh)I can feel you pull me downFearing you (Ooh)loving you (Ooh)I won't let you pull me down
The crowd enjoyed our performance since they were jumping up and down to the music. They all clapped as we waved and headed off the stage.
"Hey Sora," A girl with two of her friends met up with us. "Uh, we were wondering if you, Cloud, and Riku wanted to dance with us."
"Only if it's okay with Kairi, Namine, and Amanda of course," One of the other girls added. The three of us looked at each other. Everyone else had left to go dance.
"Sure," Namine said. The three girls grinned and drug our guys into the crowd.
"Oh! What's that?" Amanda pointed to the hall entrance from the gym, yet it wasn't a hall entrance anymore. "Oh! A haunted house!"
"Excuse me, would you three very beautiful young ladies care to dance?" Three guys dressed up in tux's, white gloves, hats, black shoes, and fancy eye masks said. I couldn't tell who any of them were.
"Uh, sure." The guys each held out a hand. I took the guy who was in the middle and we went to the dance floor. Once we found a spot he turned to me. He gently placed his hands lightly on my waist and I laced my figures around the back of his neck. I looked up at his eyes but I couldn't tell the color through the mask and the shading of his hat.
"So what's you're name?" I decided to ask.
"Just call me Zorro for now," he smiled lightly.
"Alright, Zorro, are you new here or something?"
"Well Kairi, you could say I'm new this school year," I smiled. "You have a beautiful smile," Zorro said.
"Heh, thanks."
"So that last song you preformed, whom did you sing it to?" he asked.
"Oh, well, see there's this guy named Shawn. Well he likes me a lot and won't leave me alone. He was a sweet guy until he met Sora," I said.
"Well any guy who didn't like you would be insane, even if not in a girlfriend type of way, just a friend."
"Aw that's sweet of you." We danced a little more until the song was over. "Thanks for the dance, uh I guess I'll see you around." I was turning around to leave when he stopped me.
"Wait." He took me by the hand and made me look at him. He had a burgundy red rose, handing it to me. I was surprised. "Goodnight." He bowed slightly and kissed the top of my hand that was in his before he spun around and walked through the people.
"Hey Kai," Amanda said from behind me. "Kai?"
"Yeah…" I said still in shock.
"Oh, pretty rose, where'd you get it?" She asked.
"Zorro gave it to me," I said looking at her.
"Zorro?"
"Who ever it was that I danced with."
"Aw he seems sweet."
"Yeah, he really was." (A/N: Okay no, she's not falling for 'Zorro' so don't worry!)
"Hey Kairi, would you wanna go to the haunted house, hallway thingy with me?" Amanda asked me.
"Yeah, sure," I smiled. The two of us walked over to the hallway entrance. Amber and Christy were at the doorway.
"Hey guys!" Amber smiled. She was dressed as a dead bride.
"Welcome to our haunted house," Christy, who was a Native American, said opening the door. I handed her my rose to hold until I came back around to get it later.
"Thanks," we both said as we stepped in the dark hall. There was a curtain blocking the hallway. At the very bottom of it I could see lights flashing, screams were heard along with evil laughter. Amanda and I looked back. Christy and Amber were closing the doors and looking at us.
"Wait until the doors are all the way shut before proceeding through the curtain and hallway," Amber said. They both smirked and shut the doors. We both took a deep breath and looked at the black curtain.
"Ready?" Amanda asked.
"Ready when you are," I answered. We both reached in front of us to pull the curtain aside.
"Kairi…. Amanda…" A deep eerie voice called to us from the other side of the curtain. "We're waiting for you…." It whispered before fading away.
A/N: ha done! Yay! Little cliffies in 2 of my stories now lol. Hope you all liked it! Like I said it's Halloween on Christmas. Anywho, love to hear reviews! Happy Holiday's everyone!
Reminder! I'm still willing to add people to the last chapter of Dear Diary 2 (which is far away from now), so if you want to be in there and you haven't told me so already…. Tell me now… I will be messaging you if you already are going to be in the story and reminding you of the info I have and what I still need from you. Thanks guys!