"You'll need costumes if you're gonna blend in," Jack told us. "Otherwise, everyone else will have a nervous breakdown. No humans have ever set foot in Halloween Town."
"Well what do you suggest?!" I asked him, annoyed.
"I really don't know, it's kinda up to you guys..."
"OOH! I WANNA BE A ZOMBIE!!!" Callie yelled, jumping up.
"Yeah, I guess I'll be a zombie too," I said, unable to think of anything else.
"Well then we'd better go visit Doctor Picklestine, he'll be able to make you guys look more... uwh, well, we'd call it NORMAL..."
"Yeah, I get the point. He's not gonna freak out if he finds out about us?"
Jack stifled a laugh. "He might, but he's the least likely to in the entire town. Come to think of it, he probably won't even notice us walk in, cause he's usually sleeping or obsessed with his experiments. Then I can probably get to the stuff he uses for artificial skin."
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As Jack had predicted, the doctor didn't even notice us walk in, even when we lumbered up the stairs like a herd of elephants.
Jack also made quite a lot of noise looking for something he could use to make us look less alive. He finally found a bucket of disgusting-looking greenish purple paste, which he proceded to smear all over our faces. He tried to spread it out evenly- but messed up fantastically, making us look even more zombie-ish. The paste hardened to a rubbery subtance that we could take on and off like a mask, making this all the more easy on us.
"Awesome!" Callie said, inspecting herself in the mirror.
We found some potato sacks and stomped on them and tore them until they looked as though they had been run over by a tractor, or maybe more like five tractors. We sliced holes for the head and arms with my pocket knife and then pulled them on over our clothes.
Jack then handed us a half empty can of red paint. Me and Callie dipped our hands in it and flung it at eachoter until we both looked like we had been through World War one AND two.
"Wow," Jack said monotonously, shaking his head.
"We look good?" Callie asked hopefully.
"No... you look... hideously deformed... and...uhhh...WOW."
Hey, at least it worked.
"CRAP!!" Jack yelled suddenly from behind us as we walked back to his house. Me and Callie spun around.
"What?" Callie asked him, raising an eybrow.
"I totally forgot...I have a family reunion today!!!"
Callie stared at me dumbly.
"Uh... Well..." I was at a loss.
Jack bolted for his house, and the two of us followed. There were a bunch of people standing outside his door, and by the resemblance I assumed they were his family members.