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Is This a College?
Chapter 4: Halloween at my Place!?
Halloween, the only holiday where people won't question you for wearing weird costumes, pranking others with toilet paper and eggs, and for eating a stomachs worth of candy. Do I follow these customs willingly? Not at all. I don't celebrate Halloween. The only thing I did for Halloween was hand candy out for trick-or-treaters. That and help myself to some remainders of the candy bowl.
I probably shouldn't have to any of my friends this. We were hanging out by the soda machine chatting about the coming holiday. I did my best to avoid the subject on celebrating it. Leave it to Haruna to ruin that freedom as well. "So what are you gonna be for Halloween everyone?" she said innocently. I could tell she was on to my silence.
Seraphim had stated in a bored tone. "I plan to dress like a vampire ninja." Everyone stared at her at this. "What?"
Eu held up a note that said 'Bit unoriginal isn't it?'
Seraphim merely scowled at her remark. Sarasvati decided to speak up, "I plan on dressing like a devil," she said in a purposely dark tone.
Yuki spoke up as well, "I'm going to be a gold medal Olympic runner," she said enthusiastically.
Eu held up a note that read 'I'm gonna be an angel'.
Haruna merely scoffed at all this. "You guys are a bunch of pansies when it comes to ideas for costumes," she laughed. "But luckily with my…"
"…Genius I can help you choose much better costumes," Seraphim finish for her. "We get it Haruna you're a genius, can we talk about something that doesn't relate to that?" she said with bitterness on her lips.
Before Haruna could say anything, Yuki sealed my fate, "What are you going to be Ayumu?"
The only interaction I gave in the conversation was me nodding to everyone's ideas. Now I really had to talk about it. I had to explain that I didn't celebrate the holiday. I opened my mouth and bluntly said, "I don't know yet." I felt so stupid that I had actually said that. I could've said 'I don't celebrate this holiday' or 'Halloween isn't my holiday'.
Haruna gaped at me before grabbing my hand and dragging me somewhere that certainly was on campus. The others were too shocked to react at this and possibly save me. The rest was a blur before I found Haruna and me in front of a nearby mall. I already knew what she was thinking and it probably went along these lines, 'Ayumu+NoCostume=Fail Ayumu+Costume=Success'. I knew what was happening but needed to confirm it, "What are we doing here Haruna?"
She rolled her eyes at me and said, "Ayumu are you really that stupid? We are here to get a costume."
"I figured as much," I sighed.
We probably searched the costume store for an hour. Haruna was being a huge critic on the subject. Every item I liked wasn't too stupid looking and was slightly unoriginal. Haruna didn't like the 'unoriginal' part at all. Everything she liked was idiotic and the only bright side to it was the so called 'originality'. She first attempted to dress me as an incubus. The outfit was something you'd expect to see in an adult store. It would have shown my entire top half and almost reveal my privacy. Luckily I refused to even try it on, much to Haruna's displeasure.
My luck turned around 'sort of' when Eu had found us in the costume store. She held up a note with an intimidating glow, 'Leave him alone.'
At this Haruna's face shifted a bit, but she still held her ground. "I'm just finding Ayumu, here, a proper costume," she said before sticking her tongue out and grabbing me by the back of the shirt and dragging me out the store and into the crowds. I honestly didn't know who to side with on the subject. Haruna wasn't ill-intentioned in this, she was just trying to find me a costume so I wouldn't be left out. But then again she could just be trying to embarrass me in those costumes. Eu was trying to free me from the clutches of discomfort known as Haruna.
None of these thoughts even mattered in the end, as someone had grabbed me in the thick crowd of people and dragged me out forcefully into the less crowded area. "You're a tough shit to find, aren't you?"
Of all the people to save me, it had to be Sera. Not that I wasn't glad to be out of the situation, but I kinda wish she would at least be a little nicer due to the circumstances. But, again, that's just too complicated isn't it. "Well come on stupid," said Sera, "Let's go."
I was confused as to where we were going. I just couldn't keep quiet on that question, "May I ask where we are going?"
"Simple, we're getting you a costume," she said bluntly.
Things went out of control the minute we hit the shop. When we got back to the costume shop from earlier, Haruna and Eu were waiting for us there as it turned out. Emphasis on the word were. When we got there they were in what could only be described as a catfight. Haruna was holding Eu with a pained look on her face. Eu was being held from behind while she held onto a bunch of Haruna's hair in her balled up fist. This was by far the most unexpected thing from both of them… alright from Eu, no so much from Haruna.
Sera tried to pull me into a costume aisle away from the two girls, but I stood stuck in place with obvious confusion on my face. I cleared my throat loudly to get their attention, but this didn't work out so much. In the corner of my eye I notice Yuki and Sarasvati enter the shop, and they got the same look of surprise I had moments ago. I cleared my throat in a more obnoxious way to get their attention. This also failed so I started yelling, "Let each other go now!"
I was seriously pissed. I had to assume I was the whole reason they were fighting yet they refused to listen to me about it. I stopped fighting and decided the only way to separate them both was to get between them both. I did the first tactic that came to mind, just jump and use my weight to disconnect their hands from each other. So I jumped in between the two pushing all my weight down on their hands.
To my appeasement, they both let go of each other after a few seconds. But Haruna started on me after recovering from the shock, "Ayumu, what was all that. I was trying to get your right for a costume back from her," she said as she pointed at Eu.
Eu then grabbed the top of my head and turned it towards her note 'I'm not taking away your freedom, I'm giving you your freedom from her'.
Soon all hell breaks loose, Haruna tackles me and grabs hold of my head attempting to drag me way again. I struggle against this and, to my surprise, Eu takes grab of both of my arms and pulls me away. Sera joins in and grabs my legs and begins to pull. I swear I think my joints were about to disconnect the bones. It only escalated when Haruna adjusted her grip from my jaw to around my neck, choking me in the instance.
Now it literally became a life or death situation. I felt all the pressure of her hands strangle all the breath out of me. The pain from my arm and leg joints were already sucking the breath out of me. I realized I had to make my next breaths count or I would suffocate. "Let me go," I said weakly. My voice went unheard so I tried with the rest of my reserved breath.
"LET ME GO!"
They finally got the message and realized I was being strangled and quickly let me go. By then I was already on the verge of complete suffocation. Instead I blacked out.
I woke up in a bed and the first thing I think is, 'Am I dead?' I feel my face and my chest and I say aloud "If I'm dead then being dead sucks!"
It was only then I noticed the bed type I was laying in, and the room itself looked familiar. It was, as I realized, my dorm room. 'How the hell did I get here?' I slowly got up and looked into my living area to find my second surprise. I see Haruna and Yuki sharing my couch and I also see Eu, Sera and Sarasvati laying on the floor with blankets under them.
I was not pleased with them at first but I also just realized that if I sent them out and yelled at them, I would lose the only friends I have and making up would just make things awkward. So I reached my decision and decided to walk out my door to the hall and outside the building.
(A/N: Delays and future plans): Hello boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, Muffins and Midgets etc. I bring you the delayed chapter of 'Is this a College?' Why was it delayed you ask? I have been having MANY problems on the homefront right now. My dog, Sadie, has heart disease and it is finally starting to affect her. So I fell into a small depression.
Second reason: Lack of encouragement. When I started working on this chapter, not many people were even taking a look at this story. I got 10 to 20 views within 24 hours, and within those views about 2 out of every single one favorite and followed the story.
What made me continue work? I checked how many views I was getting and was shocked to see our record of views in one day (24) was beaten and sent up to 31 or so and I was also shocked to see that more people actually FAVORITED my story. So if you wanna thank someone thank these people:
InfiniteReader
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And 2 Guests out there.
Because of them I have not only started to work on the story more, but I feel a little less depressed.
Thank you again for reading this and stay tuned for more…
P.S. If you can read all this then you don't need glasses.