Mako's Message: I really wrote myself into a corner with this one. I'm not even joking. I got to where this ends and said, "*&%^$". Yes. What I said was worse than what I've already used in this fic. What happened was that I couldn't figure out how to move to future events without breaking the narrative style or ending the chapter. After staring at my computer screen for awhile, swearing to myself, letting it sit, coming back and swearing some more, I decided to just end the chapter. This unfortunately means this is the shortest chapter yet when I had intended this chapter to be at least 1,000 words. Hell, I intended this chapter to cover Halloween itself. Now Halloween night isn't going to be for at least two more chapters.
Also, I want to thank all my readers for giving me the name of Mindy's secret admirer, as well as for the reviews for the last chapter. They were easily the best and most rewarding of all the chapters.
Well, Katie is looking at me weird.
I guess that makes sense, since it's the same way Marty and Todd are looking at the three of us after our group rejection of Katie dressing as "Red Miss"
The costume thing is going well though. When we went to Safehouse C for burgers and gun maintenance I pulled out one of the spare Hit Girl wigs and had Dave try it on. It still looked like girl hair though so I trimmed it. It's not great (actually it looks kind of emo) but it does look like boy hair now. My cape is a little too short for him, but it shouldn't be too hard to find one for him in a costume store, after all, it doesn't have to be functional like mine is. A motorcycle jumpsuit thing should do for the rest.
My costume isn't going so well, surprisingly. It's not that they aren't selling things we could use for a Kick-Ass costume. It's actually that they are. Since Kick-Ass is unlicensed, there have to be four or five companies producing merchandise, unfortunately most of it is crap. Okay sure, that Kick-Ass comic that came out a few months ago was pretty good, even if they did make Kick-Ass's origin some sort of mix of Batman's and Spider-man's
Most of the other stuff is junk though. All the costumes in my size are flimsy and terrible looking. Well, there was one costume that wasn't a piece of crap, but it was one of those costumes with the ridiculous fake muscles and I'm supposed to be a Girl Kick-Ass. Kick-Ass Girl?
Dave suggested we just try and find the same style of wetsuit he bought just in my size.
There was a full minute of silence after he said that as we both realized what idiots we'd been, running around looking for a cash-in costume when we could just do the same thing he did in the first place.
It took us awhile, but the purchase has been made, and should be arriving shortly before Halloween. Hopefully it fits.
Oh, Katie seems to have taken to the idea of dressing up as a superhero apparently. She wont tell Dave who she's dressing up as though and it's driving him nuts.
