Sorry this wasn't up earlier... anyway here is.
BTW thanks Justinbeaver for the ideas on Riley and Zane's costumes...
hope you enjoy! :)
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Ch. 7: Halloween Day
Clare's POV
I was just about to grab my costume and head over to Alli's. I was slipping on my shoes when my phone started to ring. I looked at the caller id "Alli", she was probably wondering where I was. Sometimes she could get extremely impatient. I hit the green phone button and held the phone to my ear.
"Hey Alli, I was just about to head over there..." my sentence was cut off by Alli's high pitched voice.
"Clare" she said her voice was now a bit shaky as well as an octave too high for my liking.
"Alli, is everything okay? I asked worry was now coursing through my body.
"No Clare you need to go read the anti-grapevine... its pretty bad" she said starting to calm down.
"you know I really don't pay attention to that gossip rag, whatever it is I'll read it tomorrow" I said
"Clare, you need to read it now, it's about you" Alli said
"me?" I asked. Why would Chantay want to write about me?
"uh, Clare I gotta go my mom is calling me. I'll see you when you get here" she said as she hung up the phone.
I sat there on the bed holding the phone in my hand. After I hung up the phone I sat it down and went for start up my laptop. I sat down and logged onto IM for a minute hoping that Eli might be on but no luck. I decided to see what Chantay wrote about me so I logged onto the anti-grapevine website. I was shocked at the front page article. I scrolled down and began to read.
Smart sophomore girl to dumb to get a date to the biggest event in Degrassi history?
Everyone in school has a date to the Halloween Party this weekend except for one sophomore. You may all know her as Darcy's sister, apparently the goth boy she has been seen hanging around was too cool to take her to the party. Or is it because he doesn't like the idea of dating a "girl"? Rumor has it that goth boy will be attending the Gore fest playing at the cinema. Sources also say that his date is non other then the "boy between the ears". So what is really going on? Will the certain sophomore girl show up to the party stag? I guess we will all find out on Saturday night.
I closed the web page and sat there staring blankly at the screen. How could Chantay write that? Now the entire school knew that I was going solo. Ugh could things get much worse? I was just about to shut down my computer when I noticed I had a message on the bottom of the screen. I clicked on it.
Justinbeaver: hey Clare, is the anti-grapevine article true? Are you really going stag to the party?
Clare-e23: yes I'm going alone, but it was my decision and it's really no ones business who I go with or not.
I logged off. Grabbed my costume and headed over to Alli's house to get ready.
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I knocked on Alli's door and she let me in. we darted to her room to get ready. Alli slipped on her costume and I had to admit she looked great. She showed a pair of four inch tall red glittery stripper shoes into a bag.
" I'll put those on In the car" she said. I knew why too, her parent would definitely not approve of her wearing those anywhere. I went into her bathroom and changed into my entire costume. I was so pleased with how I looked in it. I let Alli curl my already curly hair. She said that curling them would make them look more dramatic or something. Once we were ready we waited in the living room for Sav. He was our chaperone and our ride. About twenty minutes later Sav came out of his room looking like Fred Flinstone.
"ready to go?" he asked us
"yup" we both said in unison
"we need to go pick up drew" Alli said.
" once we pick up HJ we can swing by and get him" Sav said grabbing the keys to their dad's truck and ushering us out the door.
We picked up Holly J who was coincidentally dresses a Wilma Flintstones. We then headed over to pick up Drew. We pulled up to Drew's place and Sav honked the horn. A few minutes later Drew came into view and I couldn't help but let out a little chuckle.
"awe you look so cute" Alli said as Drew took a seat next to her on in the truck.
" I look stupid" he mumbled under his breath.
"to the party" holly j said pointing strait ahead. And with that Sav put the car in drive and headed for Fiona's place.
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Eli's POV
we had arrive to the Gore fest an hour early. We decided to get some seats right away before the theater got to packed. We scoured the rows until Adam picked out the "perfect seats" he decided to that we needed snacks so he went to the concession stand to stock up on provisions for the next few hours. He came back a few minutes later carrying what seemed like the entire concession stand. I stood up and took some of the stuff from Adam's arms. He had two large cola's an XL tub of popcorn, nachos and numerous packages of candy.
"dude, you get enough food?" I asked
" it's a six hour long marathon and I don't plan on getting up" he replied
I nodded my head and sat down as the movie began. We had been there for at least an hour and I had no clue what the movie was about. I hadn't been paying attention. All I could think about was Clare. She was going to that party alone anything could happen. She was going to find a guy and forget all about me. Horrible images of Clare taunted my head.
"hey are you okay" Adam asked looking at me
"yeah I'm fine" I said "why?"
"you have been staring at the screen but I haven't seen you flinch once" Adam said
"oh" I stated still staring at the screen.
"you know we can still make the party, we can dress up with masks on so Clare doesn't know we are there and this way you can keep an eye on her" Adam replied. It was like he was reading my mind.
"one little problem bro, we don't have costumes" I said. Adam smiled and stood up looking at me.
"what are you doing" I asked
"get up, we are going somewhere" Adam said
I listened and followed him out of the theater and across the street to the Halloween Superstore.
"lets find us some costumes" Adam stated as he started looking for a costume.
we were in the back for a few minutes when Adam stepped out of the dressing room in a Robin costume.
"boy wonder... not bad" I said
"what are you going to wear?" Adam asked
" I have an idea" I said grabbing a costume and heading into the dressing room.
A few minutes later I emerged dressed as the phantom, from The Phantom of the Opera. Adam smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up. I decided that this was the perfect costume. I stepped into the bathroom and slicked my hair back before we both approached the checkout counter fully dressed in our costumes. Once we paid for them we darted for Morty. I needed to get to that party and make sure no one was making a move on Clare. I had decided that tonight I would tell her how I really feel.
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again im sorry it wasn't up sooner. My internet was down :(
tomorrow is the Party chapter!
Thanks for all the reviews they are awesome... keep em coming!
-kj :)