First of all, yes, I know Animal Parade doesn't have a Pumpkin festival or Halloween, but since it's fanfiction, it does now!
Anyways, I wasn't originally going to write this, but I just wanted to break the time skip up a little bit, so it's not a complete 'omg what the hell happened in those two weeks' kind of thing.
I hope you know what I mean. xD The idea was actually given to me by a friend when she ranting about our previous Halloween experiences after seeing some little kid dressed as a witch for some reason LOL.
Disclaimer: Apparently I don't own Harvest Moon.
Halloween – the one day a year in which children can successfully eat as much candy as they please, without the risk of being scolded by their parents.
If you're not a child or a parent (who is unwilling dragged along each house with their eager child) however, then the day can seem meaningless and just a nuisance.
That is, unless your Kathy and Luke.
"Come on Mol! Let's at least see what it looks like on you!"
"No...it looks far too...far too...not me. I don't think I've ever even seen this stuff sold before, let alone wear it!"
Sighing in frustration, Kathy got up of the couch which she had been sitting on (Notably for the past hour in which she and Luke had been trying to persuade Molly out of her bathroom) and went over and started to rattle the door to said room.
"Well then, if you're not going to come out, then we're going to come in! We need to at least see what it looks like on you before you completely give up on it!"
"N-no! It's embarrassing."
Ignoring the pleas coming from the other side of the door, Kathy continued with her assault on the wooden contraption. Quickly getting fed up with trying to open it however, she figured it was going to take more to break the lock on the thing.
"Okay then Molly..." she said sweetly, whilst turning to the other presence in the room. "Luke, dear? Can you help me with this?"
"Of course I may, Ma'am."
"WHOA WHOA WHOA wait a minute."
Smirking as she heard the lock to the door click, Kathy quickly pushed it open before her friend could reconsider. It was doubtful however, if she wanted her door to stay in one piece.
"..."
"W-what?" Noticing the other woman just staring at her dumbfounded, Molly assumed she must look terrible- it took ALOT to shut Kathy up after all.
As she was about to back away to hide behind the shower curtain in order to conceal her embarrassment, Molly was caught off guard by her now back- to- earth- friend grabbing her arm rather tightly, and squealing as loud as she could.
"Oh. My. God! Molly! What were you so worried about? You look really hot! And cute! All at the same time!"
"Uh..."
"I'm not surprised that Chase thought that you might be lesbians considering you keep talking like tha-WHOA MOLLY!"
Luke, who had now also stuck his head around the door in order to see what the extreme squeal was all about, quickly made his remark then backed out again in fear of an oncoming nosebleed. (He still however, couldn't resist peaking in.)
"Think Selena Luke, Selena!"
A now furiously embarrassed Molly turned her head away from the two, accidently catching a glimpse of herself in the full length mirror which hung on the wall as she did so.
Looking herself up and down, she wandered how the hell Kathy had even managed to get her to try on the outfit in the first place.
She also highly doubted that it was going to come off anytime soon.
"You can be such a sneaky woman Kathy." She muttered, as she pulled at the skin-tight, black leather 'cat' costume which was now adorning her (Surprisingly curvy) figure.
"Well, I knew you would probably never wear something so daring, so I just made the excuse that I just want you to model it for me, then you could take it off afterwards."
Running her hand over Molly's leather-clad arm, Kathy smiled at her plan's success.
"Yeah, that's not going to come off without any help."
With an amused smile, Molly went over to sit on the edge of the bath, seriously doubting that the costume would come off at all, considering how hard she found it to bend to sit down.
"Good God Kathy, I sometimes wonder whether you're really my best friend or not."
"I sometimes wonder whether you remember that you other best friend happens to be a male."
"Shit, sorry Luke!" Quickly slamming the bathroom door shut again, Kathy turned her attention back to Molly, the slightly evil smirk now re-appearing on her face.
"I don't even want to hear what you're going to say. But I guess I don't get a choice huh?"
The smirk now increasing, she pulled her friend up (After noticing the difficulty which she found in sitting down) and leant over to whisper her thoughts in her ear – she didn't want to cause Luke to faint after all.
After she had finished, Molly just stared at Kathy like she was crazy.
"Staring is rude, you know."
"You're shitting me, right?"
"Nope, why would I ever do that to my dear Mollyyyy?" Hugging the now rather scared girl, Kathy proceeded to drag her out of the room, rambling something about how she needed to help her get into her costume now, since she wasn't as thin as Molly etc etc...too bad that Molly just had her thoughts elsewhere, carefully planning where she could hide for the next six months in order to escape the embarrassment which was likely to unfold from later events.
Six months would be enough time for everyone to forget the night, right?
"Molly, snap out of it and hold this." Finally coming out of her train of thoughts, Molly wished that she hadn't.
Holding the garment out in front of her, she reconsidered turning the six months into twelve instead.
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"TRICK OR TREAAAAT!"
"Heeey, Happy...Halloween?"
The night now fully setting in, the trio in Molly's house had answered the door to a few dozen eager children, and were now just getting down to the last trickle of them.
What stood before them now however, wasn't something which they particularly expected.
Throwing a hand to her mouth, Kathy (Who was the first to get to the door) had to try and hold back her laughter.
There at the door stood Chloe, adorned in a fluffy white sheep costume, looking pretty pleased with herself. It wasn't that sight which was making Kathy struggle not to laugh, however.
There, standing next to the mischievous girl, was Bo, looking rather annoyed at the outfit which one could only assume had been forced upon him.
Apparently someone had came up with the clever idea to dress up Bo in a powder blue, over the top frilly dress, complete with knee high lace socks and a long blonde wig.
"HAHAHA Little Bo Peep! What are you doing? Controlling Chloe? I now see why you she was allowed out without Owen or Ramsey, I mean, you ARE a 'Sheppard' after all...HAHA."
Frowning at Kathy's laughter which she just couldn't hold back any longer, Bo just turned his back to the hysterical woman.
"Yeah, well...I'm only doing it because your boyfriend wouldn't!"
"Yeah!" he thought too himself smiling, "take that lady!"
Unfortunately for Bo, the comment just made Kathy laugh even harder, clutching her stomach as she started to struggle to breath.
"Oh...my...GOD...Owen in a...a dress? That would have been hilarious!"
"Kathy, what the hell are you doing?" elbowing the girl in the side to shut her up, Molly handed out the candy to the two children, whilst profoundly apologising to Bo in the process.
"Nah, don't apologise to him, he enjoys it really." Replied a satisfied Chloe, who waved goodbye and dragged Bo away to the next place of torture before he had a chance to protest.
"Aw, Mol, you could have at least laughed! Or elbowed me harder, you're so weak for being a farmer. I thought you would have had manly strength by now."
"Don't even go down there..." sighing, Molly went and got Luke from the living room, who was still in awe at the sight of his best friends. (Kathy had also joined Molly with putting on an identical cat costume, with the reasoning that she wanted to limit her best friend's embarrassment.)
"Aww, someone reluctant to go out?"
"Wow, how did you ever guess that Kathy?" rolling her eyes at her stupidity, Molly walked over to her kitchen table to collect her keys.
"I don't know...maybe the sarcastic and moody tone in your voice?"
"Just get out of the house so I can lock up."
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"Almost thereeee! He better be ready, 'cause it's damn cold out here."
"I told you these costumes were a bad idea Kathy! We're going to freeze to death."
"Oh, you'll see that it won't be a bad idea in a minute."
He heart now beating rapidly in her chest, Molly was thankful that the darkness of the night was concealing her quickly reddening face.
Apparently Kathy and Luke weren't the only adults who still celebrated Halloween, in fact, pretty much the whole of Harmonica town did. It was a yearly ritual for the residents who didn't have children to spend the rest of the night from 8pm onwards in the Brass Bar, drinking and showing off the costumes which they had found themselves to wear.
Unfortunetly for Kathy, she still had to act as a waitress for most of the night, and Chase still had to be a cook.
Which was why the three were now on the way to his house, in order to spend some time with him before he and Kathy had to work.
Well, that's what Kathy told him at least.
Finally reaching the door, Kathy slammed her fist against it as hard as she could.
"..."
"COME ON CHASE OPEN UP IT'S FREEZING."
"M...maybe he's already gone?" Molly's heart slightly sank of the thought that he could have forgotten the arranged meeting. At the same time however, she was slightly relieved that he wouldn't see her like this.
"Nah, he just needs some persuading!" getting annoyed at the lack of response, and the hurt look which was on Molly's face because of it, Kathy began to hammer on the door more.
"For the love of everything good Kathy, what is up with you and your friends trying to break down doors..."
Hearing the voice on the other side, Kathy immediately stopped hitting the door, for the risk of punching the man in the face when he opened it.
A few seconds later the door lock clicked open, and an annoyed Chase appeared, whilst running a towel through his hair.
"I was getting out of the shower, you really do need to be more...pa...tient..." about to go off on a 'Chase rant', he decided better of it upon seeing Molly shyly standing to the side of Kathy.
"Two seconds." He said before slamming the door in their faces again.
Turning to Molly, Kathy had a smug look upon her face.
"Told you that it would have a good effect, didn't I?"
I didn't want this to be a two part chapter, but it seems like it would flow better if it was. D: Typical. I'll try and put both parts up tonight however, so don't worry.
So sorry about the lack of Molly and Chase action in this part, all will be made up for in the next.