WARNING DRAMA ALERT:) Here's chapter 8 kids!
Chapter 8
It was Halloween and the holiday spirit was all around the house. I was hosting a party for all the D-Tent boys and Amber. I told each person who RSVP-ed to dress up as another D-Tent member. I was going as X-ray, Zig was going as me, X-ray was going as Squid, Squid was going as Caveman, Caveman was going as Zero, Amber was going as Herself, Armpit was going as Magnet, Magnet was going as Zig and Zero was going as Armpit.
The day of the party, my mother was scrambling around trying to boy proof the house. She removed all the pictures off the mantel and wall and also had bought a whole lot of bags of chips. Soda was piled in the fridge and the smell of candy corn filled the house. Amber was helping decorate the house with festive orange and black streamers.
"Do you think these are too lame?" I asked Amber.
"No, I don't think so. Orange is my favorite color." She said, throwing it over the fan in our kitchen.
"Girls, this place looks wonderful!" My mother said as she hurried in, carrying Jackie's baby in her arms. "Could you hold Cameron for just a second?" She asked, shoving him into my arms. He smiled at me and I sat him on the floor. The doorbell rang. I ran to it, making sure Amber was watching Cam.
"Kelly!" My sister hugged me as soon as I opened the door.
"Jackie, what are you doing here?" I asked as she scooped up Cameron off the floor.
"I figured I'd drop by and see my favorite sister on Halloween." She replied. "Having a party?" She asked, looking around at the decorations just as Amber toppled from a folding chair, landing with a squeal on the kitchen floor.
"Yeah, I'm inviting all my friends from Camp." I replied.
"Camp? You mean that Juvie place where you met that guy who calls himself by a marine creature?" She asked.
"Yes that camp. And everyone calls him that, not just himself." I replied, fixing the couches.
"Kelly, you really still hang around with those delinquents?" she asked.
"What are you, my mother?" I asked, opening a Diet Coke. Amber stood by, watching.
"No Kelly, but I am your older sister, and I just don't think these boys are the type you should be hanging around with." She sat Cameron down and put her hands on her hips.
"I think they are pretty cool!" Amber piped in. We both turned and glared at her. She turned meekly and went back to hanging streamers.
"You know I think I'm going to go back to the apartment and get Cameron in his costume." She said shortly as she picked Cameron up off the ground where he was playing with an Elmo doll. I turned around and walked away. She slammed the door behind her. My mom came in the room.
"Where'd Jackie go?" She asked.
"She left." I said dully. My mom sighed, grabbed her car keys and her coat.
"I'll be back around eleven, and I want to find anyone still here then. Except Alan, he can stay if he wants. Greg will be back tomorrow, he's staying over his friends. Love you, be good" She waved goodbye and left.
"So, what now?" Amber asked.
"Let's bring out the chips on the table." I replied, taking out the bags and throwing them to Amber.
20 minutes later the first person showed up in their costume. Amber and I had gotten changed and the music was pumping.
"Shorty!" X-ray called as he entered. He was the first one, even before Squid and ZigZag.
"X-Ray!" I replied, hugging him. He lifted me up, making me scream.
"Oh X, this is Amber." I motioned to her, shoving chips into her mouth. She nodded and he laughed.
"You look pretty much like me." X-ray said to me, taking off the thick framed glasses I had on.
"You resemble my boyfriend quite nicely." I replied. He smiled as the door flung open.
"Hola everybody!" Armpit bellowed in a Spanish accent. My face light up.
"Armpit!" I screamed going to hug him, but pausing. "You don't smell." I said astonished.
"Yeah, I've been loving hot water." He replied hugging me back. "Nice costume." He said as I stopped hugging him. I smiled.
"This is Amber." I said, motion to her. She approached him.
"I feel like this is going to be really awkward for me tonight." She whispered.
"You'll be fine." I replied. Armpit bee lined for the food. The doorbell rang and I opened it to Caveman and Zero, dressed up as Zero and Armpit. I laughed at the two of them.
"Hey guys!" I replied, letting them in and hugging both of them.
"Hey Shorty you look good!" Caveman replied, making me blush.
"Oh stop it." I said, laughing. "Guys this is Amber." I said, gesturing to her.
"So you're the infamous Caveman and Zero I've heard about. Runaways I hear." They laughed and caught sight of the other and joined them.
"So we're waiting on Magnet, ZigZag, and Squid and…oh that's it." I said to Amber.
"So Kelly, what's on the agenda tonight?" X-ray asked me as he walked over. I shrugged.
"I actually have no idea." I replied. He laughed.
"Typical. Maybe we can all run around in our undies and towels." He replied. We both laughed at the inside joke, but Amber gave us weird looks.
"Oh c'mon you read my letters." I said as X walked away. The front door suddenly burst open to Magnet, dressed up like ZigZag.
"Guys, hurry, Squid's picking a fight with some dude!" Magnet said. They guys looked at each other before running after Magnet. Amber and I exchanged glances.
"Do you think it's…?" I started. Amber nodded, assuming who it was before I could finish. We both chased after the guys to see Squid and ZigZag on the corner with none other than Kevin. Will this guy ever leave? Surrounding them was D-tent. We ran over to the crowd.
"You got you're little posse with you buddy?" I heard Kevin say from inside the crowd. "Are you for real with that one? He's shorter than Kelly!" I guessed he was referring to Zero.
"That one happened to knock a guy out with a shovel and survive almost a week in the desert." I said from outside of the circle, causing everyone to look at me.
"Hey Kelly." He slurred, obviously he was at a party and had left just in time to ruin mine.
"You know this dude?" X-ray asked.
"Think of him as you're San Antonio version of Flash." I replied. The boys all narrowed their eyes.
"I was just walking over to say Happy Halloween and then you buddy over there, he stops me. I was like hey man, no need to get violent." Kevin said stupidly, stumbling over to me. The group moved over to us.
"Kevin, what are you doing here?" I asked, stepping back into someone. His breath smelled like alcohol.
"I said, I was just coming over here to say hello, when that guy and that guy stopped me." I looked at Squid and ZigZag. They looked at him with steely eyes.
"Kevin go home, you're drunk." I replied, watching him fall. He got up.
"No, I want to settle something with your friend over there." He walked towards Zig and Squid. I bit my lip. I ran in front of Kevin.
"Kevin don't do it!" I yelled, but it was too late. I had gotten in the way of Kevin's fist and Squid's face. At that moment, D-tent jumped on Kevin as I scrambled onto my neighbors front lawn. Thankfully a police officer was driving on the street next to ours and saw the pile of guys.
"Excuse me is there a problem here?" He asked, getting out of his car. The boys released Kevin.
"Officer," I said, standing up. "That guy right there, the one with the black hair, he's drunk and was going to come over and crash my party. He punched me so my friends tackled him. We have a not so good history together; he scares me and please take him away." I was scared of him. Not that I wasn't scared of him before, but this freaked me out.
"C'mon buddy." The officer said, picking him up.
"All I wanted to say was happy Halloween!" Kevin yelled as he was shoved into the back of the police car.
"This is not how I wanted this party to go." I said quietly, touching my black eye.
"You alright Shorty?" Magnet asked.
"I'm fine." I mumbled. The guys decided that it was best not to go back to my house so the all headed home. Everyone except Squid.
"Squid, why do you always have to be the hero?" I asked as the last person left the house.
"What?" He asked.
"Why do you always have to be the macho man, the guy who picks fights, who tries to protect everyone?" I repeated.
"I'm not like that." He said defensively.
"Then explain you picking a fight with Kevin?" I retorted.
"I didn't want him coming over." He replied selfishly.
"Squid, you could have gotten hurt." I replied.
"So, he was drunk and he was gonna ruin your party." He said, crossing his arms.
"No, I could've handled him. You picking a fight ruined my party." I said, trying to get him to realize that what he did was wrong.
"So basically you're saying I ruined the party." He said, snappily.
"Basically I am." I replied in the same tone.
"Fine." He replied getting up and heading for the door.
"Fine!" I said, throwing a roll of streamers at the closing door. They slowly fell to the ground as I cried. I sat in the middle of the floor and cried. Suddenly I wished I never went to Camp Green Lake.
Ohhh is it the end of Kelly and Squid? I don't know, you'll have to review and wait for the next chapter