It was Friday night, and Frankie, Clawdeen, Draculaura, Abbey, Anna, and a pouty Lagoona were in their pajamas at Cleo's house.
"Alright ghouls, so what are sleep going to do first?" Cleo asked everybody.
"Makeovers!" Draculaura exclaimed, taking a makeup bag out of her very large, hot-pink duffle bag. The next hour was spent with the girls doing each other's hair, nails and makeup. Lots of secret sharing and joke telling went down during the makeover session. Lagoona seemed to loosen up a bit.
"Alright, now we're playing truth or scare!" Cleo commanded once they were finished, "Draculaura, you're first! Truth or scare?"
"Scare," Draculaura replied nervously.
"Hmmm, alright, let me think..." Cleo declared intimidatingly. Draculaura gulped.
"Eat a whole raw steak!" Cleo dared.
Draculaura fainted. "Shes out. Who's next?" Cleo shouted.
"I'll go," Frankie hesitantly volunteered.
"Truth or scare?"
"Umm, truth?" Frankie quietly said.
"Alright, what's the farthest you've gone with Jackson?" Cleo asked.
Frankie's bolts sparked. "Well we're not really together anymore-"
"Irregardless!" Cleo interjected, "Whats the farthest you've gone?"
"We just made out," Frankie replied shyly.
The ghouls laughed as they knew she was lying. Truth or scare was played for another hour or so. Anna was shocked by what she found out about them during this game. They definitely weren't as innocent as they seemed.
Abbey and Anna told the girls about getting drunk. Everybody apart from Clawdeen and Lagoona were surprised. They added that they had walked in on the hungover Abbey and Anna the next morning. Lagoona explained that was why she had been so bitter and hostile towards Anna. Clawdeen admitted that the two of them had been overreacting about the situation, and that Lagoona had told Heath about it.
"You talk to Heath about this? Why?" Abbey asked, humiliated that Heath knew about this.
"I was just concerned about you mate, I thought you were heading into rough waters," Lagoona replied.
Abbey looked at Lagoona angrily.
"Honestly, he didn't seem to care that much, in all honesty," Lagoona added. Abbey still looked furious.
Lagoona looked down into the turquoise bedding that she was lying on, tracing her fingernails along the intricate pattern. "I'm sorry love, you only did it once and me and Clawdeen overreacted."
Abbey huffed and continued to sit still against the wall with a scowl on her face, her arms folded and her mouth shut.
The rest of the ghouls preceded to play truth or scare.
"Clawdeen, truth or scare?" Frankie asked.
Clawdeen sighed. "Truth," she responded.
"Who do you like?" Cleo inquired to the werewolf.
Clawdeen felt her cheeks burn. "Nobody," she answered nervously. The ghouls knew there was something going on with Clawdeen's love life. The lone, independent wolf never got like that when asked about her crush!
"There's more to the story Clawdeen, I can tell by your face," Cleo stated.
"Come on, who is it!?" Frankie asked excitedly with a smile.
Clawdeen didn't respond, she simply ignored them. Her mind told her that she didn't like Romulus, her heart told her something different. Clawdeen was ignoring her heart at the moment. The group kept pestering and pestering her to fess up, but she stubbornly kept quiet and refused to tell them. The pestering would continue throughout the entire weekend.
After they were finished, they sat around for a bit, not knowing what else to do.
"I got an idea!" Anna exclaimed to them. Anna sat down at Cleo's laptop and went on to Youtube. "Do you guys ever go on the normie version of Frightube?"
Everybody in the room denied it. All of them were telling the truth about not going on Youtube, (well, apart from Clawdeen).
Anna showed them a few viral normie videos. Tears of laughter were streaming down the ghoul's faces as the videos played. They never thought that normies could be so funny! The laugh fest between all of them definitely was a bonding experience for the entirety of the group. Lagoona was now back to her friendly, loving, cheerful self.
Anna and the ghouls felt a lot closer than they did before the sleepover. They hung out at the maul the next day, and on Sunday, all of the girls went to Headmistress Bloodgood's home.
Abbey and Anna were sitting around, listening to Justin Biter when the doorbell rang.
"Must be them," Abbey said. The two of them went downstairs, answered the door and greeted the ghouls.
"Wait a second, I'm just going to give Grace a heads up that you're here," Anna told them, preceding to run up the dark, wooden stairs. The girls looked at each other puzzled. Grace? Anna and Grace were on a first name basis.
Anna came downstairs two minutes later.
"You call Bloodgood Grace?" Frankie asked.
"Yeah, that's her first name. We live together so she said it's okay, Abbey doesn't call her that though," Anna explained.
"Yea, do not call headmistress Grace because it feel weird to Abbey," Abbey commented.
As Abbey said that, Grace came down the stairs in a little black dress and pumps. She looked a lot more dolled up than usual.
"Ooh Grace, where ya heading to?" Anna teased. The ghouls found this very weird. Grace was their principal for god's sake!
Grace ignored the question, and looked into a mirror in the hallway, and put in a lovely pair of pearl earrings. "I'm going out tonight ghouls. Abbey, heat up some of the leftover italian food in the fridge if any of the girls get hungry." Abbey nodded her head yes.
Grace waved her hand to say goodbye. "Bye ghouls, make yourself at home!" Bloodgood then darted out the door giddily.
"Since when does Headmistress leave us alone like this?" Abbey asked Anna. Bloodgood was normally strict and overprotective, she never did this stuff.
Anna smiled. "I told you, she's dating Tim. They're crazy about each other."
"Wait, is Tim that repair normie guy who fixes stuff around our school?" Frankie asked, feeling slightly grossed out.
"You mean ?" Cleo asked her, shocked that Bloodgood had a romantic side underneath her strict, professional exterior.
"Yep," Anna said.
"EWWWWW!" the girls shouted in unison. The idea of anyone getting with their headmistress was disturbing to say the least.
"No way! Stop the telling of these lies!" Abbey yelled firmly at Anna. Anna just laughed.
"Seriously Abbey, when you were out with Heath the other night, Grace invited him over and they went in her bedroom-"
Anna was interrupted by everyone telling her to shut up, but Anna continued talking.
"All I've gotta say, is thank god I had earplugs," Anna chuckled. The ghouls all nearly vomited in their mouths. Anna just continued laughing.
After that rather disgusting conversation was over, they all went into Abbey's room. Thr ghouls were still pestering Clawdeen, now dying, (or living I guess), to find out who she liked.
"Come on Clawdeen, why won't you tell us?" Draculaura asked.
"Because I don't like anybody!" Clawdeen snapped. She then proceeded to let out a small growl.
"Come on Draculaura, leave her alone. She obviously isn't going to tell us," Cleo told the petite vampire. Draculaura glared at Clawdeen, pissed off that her own beast-friend wouldn't tell her who she had a crush on.
The next few hours were spent talking about boys, celebrities and fashion. Clawdeen pretended to be into other guys at Monster High. She figured it would be a good way to get the others off of her back, and she'd rather the ghouls thought she liked somebody else other than Romulus. Also, having them think that she liked other guys would definitely drive the suspicion away from her crush being Romulus.
"Not that he is my crush or anything," she lied to herself. She knew that it was a lie, but she figured that if she kept telling herself that she didn't like him, eventually she would actually stop liking him.
This weekend was heaps of fun for Anna Cook. It was weird having a good time with some friends. She was normally high when she was doing this kind of thing. This was her first weekend in New Salem where she didn't drink or smoke anything. This wasn't lame or weird in any way either. It was nice.
The phone rang. "I'll get it!" Anna exclaimed. She went downstairs and answered the phone. The caller I.D said that "Harrington Science and Scholar Labs" were calling.
"Hello?" Anna answered, tucking a brunette lock behind her ear.
"Hello, may we speak to Abbey Bominable?" a posh woman's voice responded.
"Uhh, sure...Let me get her." Anna went upstairs and handed the phone to Abbey saying, "The phones for you, the caller I.D says that some science facility is calling."
Abbey nodded her head, and put the phone up to her ear, "Hello, is Abbey speaking to you."
The woman's muffled voice babbled, and Abbey had to keep asking her to repeat what she said.
Clawdeen developed an excited look on her face as the phone conversation took place.
Abbey was now writing down some notes as she listened to the woman. "Yes, will talk to you in other room." Abbey picked up her notepad and left.
Anna turned and looked towards Clawdeen. "Whats happening?"
"The lady on the phone was talking about Heath and Abbey's healing water. They want to study it," Clawdeen told her.
The ghouls all looked at each other excitedly. Well, all of the ghouls apart from Ghoulia. The zombie had a worried look on her light, grey face.
"What are you guys talking about?" a very confused Anna asked the group.
"Oh, you wouldn't know about it would you?" Frankie noted. Anna shook her head no.
"Okay, well do you know the whole story about Anton?" Frankie asked the normie.
"Yeah, Abbey told me all about it," Anna informed her.
""Alright, and did Abbey tell you about the battle with Anton and Hellscream's militia?"
The atmosphere in the room suddenly went from excited to solemn once Frankie mentioned that. It was a dark time for everybody, with many near-death incidents and acts of violence. It was a tough thing for them to look back on.
"Yep, she told me everything about him," Anna said. That statement was very true, Abbey did tell her absolutely everything.
Frankie took a deep breath. "Alright, so when the fight was going on, we discovered that Abbey's ice and Heath's fire can heal people. It can also bring water monsters back from the dead."
Lagoona felt a lump in her throat. It gave her a flashback of being by a wounded Gil's bedside, she remembered losing the love of her life. She didn't know what she'd do if he had died.
"It saved a lot of injured students during the fight," Frankie told Anna.
Anna's eyes widened, and she gasped. "Wow!"
"Yeah, it's a miracle," Frankie responded.
"So now some scientists wanna study it and try to introduce it to the world. That was what that lady on the phone was talking to Abbey about. She said she was from Harrington science labs or something?" Clawdeen added.
Ghoulia's jaw dropped and her eyes widened. The zombie moaned about how prestigious the lab was and how many ground-breaking medical discoveries they were responsible for.
"That's so cool!" Anna exclaimed in astonishment.
"It would be amazing if the entire world had access to it," Frankie said.
Ghoulia shook her head no and moaned something in zombie-talk.
"Yeah, you've got a point Ghoulia," Cleo replied to the intelligent zombie. Anna looked at Cleo confused, with an eyebrow raised.
"Ghoulia was just saying that the waters so powerful, it shouldn't be in the hands of just anybody. If the whole world had access to it, so could evil people," Cleo explained. The rest of the ghouls firmly disagreed with this.
Ghoulia moaned again, her grey face crinkled in frustation.
"And she said that if everyone had access to it, bad people couldn't be defeated, wars would never end, we have have an even bigger overpopulation issue. Also, since only so few monsters can make it, it could lead to many violent altercations and wars," Cleo translated for Anna.
The ghouls could now understand what the zombie was so concerned about. Abbey hung up the phone in the other room, she came back and her friends began to talk to her about the downsides to making the water readily-avaible. This was the first time Abbey had even considered all of this.
Abbey remembered Ghoulia not letting her give the water to the healing hospital that was treating the injured MH students. Abbey didn't understand why Ghoulia wouldn't allow her to, but at the time she trusted Ghoulia about it. Ghoulia was the smartest ghoul in school after all. It made sense now. At first she thought she would definitely be giving the water to science, and eventually the world, but now she wasn't so sure. Deciding what to do about the water would be a very tough decision for both Heath and Abbey.
The girls continued debating about the pros and cons of bringing the healing water to the public. The heated debate came to an abrupt halt when Clawdeen suddenly stopped talking, and looked around as if she had heard something.
"Guys, I hear Bloodgood here," Clawdeen whispered. The girls rushed down the stairs, and squatted in front of a window.
"And Anna, I can hear Tim!" Clawdeen quietly informed Anna. If they didn't have to be quiet then, Clawdeen definitely would have shouted that statement.
They heard Bloodgood saying goodbye to her date, and Clawdeen said that they were smooching on the porch. Bloodgood began to unlock the door, and the girls scurried to the kitchen and sat at the table.
Bloodgood walked in, she was deeply immersed in a lovestruck daze. She almost didn't notice the teenagers sitting at her kitchen table. She turned around and saw them looking at her, and Bloodgood immediately snapped out of her daze.
She was still sporting a toothy grin on her face when she said, "Hey girls, did you have fun?"
They all said yes in unison.
"That's good," Bloodgood told them, then she joyfully walked off with her mind off somewhere else.
"It's 8:53 on a school night! I can't believe she didn't tell us to go home?" Lagoona stated, puzzled.
"She's just so in love," Draculaura said dreamily. After seeing Bloodgood so happy, Draculaura was no longer grossed out.
"Ew," Cleo muttered.
"You guys must go home now, it school night," Abbey announced, "Even if Bloodgood not be telling you to be going home."
All the ghouls got up, and Abbey and Anna escorted them out. They said goodbye, and everybody exchanged hugs. Anna was definitely satisfied with how that weekend went, she was finally becoming good friends with them! She said goodnight to Abbey and went up to her room, set her alarm, put on her pajamas, and went to sleep soundly.
AN: The user, CreativeWritingSoul used the name Grace for HH Bloodgood in her fanfic, 'Let It Burn', so credit goes to her for giving her the name. Thank you! :)
