PARTY THIEF
Siana waved her mum goodbye before crossing the road to the party. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and entered through the gate. Loud music blared from inside the house. Black and orange streamers hung from the top of the veranda, and a pumpkin with a carved face sat in a chair by the door. Siana giggled. The pumpkin was obviously made by Riks- no one else could carve such an annoyed look of a face.
She entered the house without knocking and immediately ran into some of her friends.
"Oh wow," a girl exclaimed over her costume. "That is so cute!" She pointed at Siana's cat-ears headband.
"Are you meant to be Cat Woman?" asked a guy.
"No, I'm just a cat. So where's our hostess?"
The guy and girl shrugged. They were dressed up as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, except with littleadjustments here and there. Especially with mini-Minnie's – skirt.
As Siana walked through the house she noticed how impressively decorated it was. When the streamers blew in the warm spring wind they seemed liked snakes, writhing in the air. Spooky looking balloons were floating around as if they had a life of their own, and the cobwebs placed around benches and tables were thin and sticky. Siana was amazed. So realistic, she thought. She reminded herself to ask Riks where she got the decorations from.
Making her way past another small group of friends whom had dressed as opposite genders, she found Riks and Valary, and the rest of the people who were invited floundering around in the pool. The source of the loud music was found on top of the roof where someone had strapped it to the gutter.
If there was a prize for most glamorous outfit, Valary would definitely have received it, Siana thought.
Valary wore a corset which seamed to be made of strips of a creamy coloured material. With it was a long and narrow black skirt that reached her ankles and spread out like the roots of a tree. She had dyed her above-shoulder hair so that it was a blood red, and wore purple make-up around her eyes. She looked evil, fascinating, glamorous and eccentric all at once.
Riks on the other hand seemed like a dirty rag compared to Valary. She wore a dress of sorts that looked to be home made, and had been stitched up from different types of fabrics. Spots, swirls and stripes covered small patches of the dress, and she had drawn stitches on her arms, legs, neck and face. Riks eyelashes were even longer and darker, and she had powdered her face so that it wasn't its natural dark tone.
"Nice dress Raggedy-Anne," Siana smirked. "Did your grandmother make that thing, or have you started home ed. classes?"
Riks just smiled her leering smile, and chuckled her sneering chuckle and said coolly, "Actually I got this straight from the manufacturer. I was going to take you guys there today, but we'll have to wait for these people to go." She indicated to everyone around and gave a small wink to Valary. "Keep your hopes up and my wish you might see. Drinks anyone?"
Back in Halloween Town the sky became an orange glow, and the night became day. A skeleton rooster crowed as a woman with sewn lips woke up yawning. Sally got out of bed and opened the window. The sky was unusually bright that day, in fact it was brighter than any of the days in Halloween Town. She stood in the light, taking in the warmth that it gave. Sally noticed how much prettier the world seemed, then shaking herself out of her daze she walked to the cupboard to change out of her night clothes.
Opening it she found cobwebs and spiders nestled in the corners. She checked under the bed, in the kitchen and even in Dr Finklestein's laboratory.
Her patience wore thin. Sally stormed back up the stairs into her room and exclaimed, "WHERE'S MY DRESS?"