Hiya! I had a few ideas of where the story should go next , so I thought I'd just do a list again If anyone has a preference for plans or costumes mentioned in this chapter , please could you let me know ? Thanks

Italics are thoughts and notes .

Discalaimer : I don't own this game. Not a pixel .

Chapter 17 - Preparations

Melvin's POV

Now that our half of the bargain was finished and Tad was beaten within an inch of his life , we moved onto the next target .
"Right , so is that all your ideas , Thad?"
"Yep."
"Beatrice?"
"That's it from me."
"Earnest?"
"Done."

We ended up with forty seven ideas to get Montrose .Once we crossed out anything involving chainsaws or mutilation (i. e , most of Thad's plans ) , We ended up with this :

1 . Egging their houses .
Pro - Greasers will have no problem helping us ,as for at least one of them , this is their weekend hobby
Con - Not original .

2 . Scare the life out of him by standing above their beds dressed as the grim reaper . Photograph his terrified expression and send them to parents / friends / paper with various captions underneath.
Pro - Humiliating .
Con - Should we be disturbed , we may have difficulty in explaining why one of us is stood over another student's bed in a cloak holding a camera .

3 . Kick him in the nuts .Hard . While wearing pointy stilettos (Beatrice is the only one able to do this if we want to keep our last lingering scrap of dignity) .
Pro - According to Christy (overheard in girls dorms) , this works every time . One of Beatrice's roomates has perfect footwear for this .
Con - The most reliable source we had on the subject was Christy , who will not be happy if Beatrice get blood on her favourite pointy stilettos .

4 . Find evidence of something incriminating . Threaten to expose him unless he humiliates himself in front of the school in the fashion of our choice .
Pro - Bryce would never want anyone to know about his secret obsession with Ms Phillips' shoes .
Con - Bryce's obsession is possibly the worst kept secret on campus with the possible exception of Dr Watts' most recent date (that poor , poor man).

5 . Inform his father of what happened to Bucky .
Pro - Causing scandal will ensure Montrose is given what is known as a 'good thrashing' by either his dad or another relative .
Con - Mr Montrose has been causing scandal for years thanks to his activities with Thai drag queens and has yet to receive a 'good thrashing' from anyone , however much he may need sense knocking into him, judging from the stories about certain barnyard animals (however , this may be a leftover from Gary Smith)

6 . Halloween .
Pro - No supervision = endless possibilities .
Con - We will have to find time for this between being pranked by others .

"What are we wearing for Halloween , anyway?" Fatty asked . "I've grown out of last years costume ."
"Me too ." added Algie .
"If it's not Dragons and Dungeons again , I don't mind - the female costumes for that game are horrific ; there's more material in a thong!" Beatrice remarked , shuddering at the memory of the disgusting excuses for costumes in the shop .
"Ok then . " Earnest announced , picking his pen up ."Any ideas?" . We stayed quiet for a few minutes .
"We could do what we did in first year and pick a random book from the library ." Cornelius suggested .
"Didn't we end up going as the cast of Alice in Wonderland?" Beatrice recalled , smiling slightly at the memories (probably because Fatty and Algie went as the tweedles and Cornelius was the queen of hearts , while she was stuck in a less humiliating blue dress with an alice band ) .
"Ok then - we'll rember to stay out of the children's classic" Earnest grinned , scribbling down the idea ."Melvin?"
"If you don't shove me into a cat costume again , I don't care " I replied , shuddering at the thought of having to grin like an idiot all night with purple whiskers painted on my face again .

The final list looked like this :

1 . Random book.
Pro - Will end up with a better costume than first year since we are now old enough to be allowed in the horror section . That said , we could not possibly do worse than first year.
Con - If we do this ,we may end up with Dracula it will be slightly embarrassing if we all go in identical suits and fangs .

2 . Go as the Jocks Pro - Mandy may take the hint and stop making Beatrice apply for cheerleading .
Con - Mandy will murder us , or Ted will beat Donald up (again) , hang him up in the boy's changing rooms by his underwear (again ) , leave him there until he is found and taken down by someone else(again ) , who will most likely be another Jock who will beat him a second time before hanging back up ...again .

3 . Go as teachers .
Pro - Original.
Con - If we have to go to the staff room during the traditional staff cocktail party , Dr Watts may faint , leaving him to the mercy of a drunken Edna

4 . Go as whoever we are studying in History or English.
Pro - Extra credit from Mr Wiggins /Galloway .
Con - We are currently learning about the german stormtroopers in history and 'The Tempest' in English, so unless we change subject , using this is a bad idea .

This is going to be a very interesting October 31st .