Rex v. Halloween
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"What about this costume?" Rex asked showing Noah.
Noah wrinkled his nose. "Dude, everyone's going to be a pirate because of that movie.
"Yeah, but I think I'd make a great pirate!" Rex closed one eye. "Arghh, me matey! All hands on deck. Batten down the hatches Swab the poop deck."
"Please stop. You're embarrassing me." Noah groaned picking up his costume.
"Argh ye scallywag, do as I say or I'll keelhaul ya!" Rex continued.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure that was not the Queen's English." Noah walked away.
Rex continued to follow. "Come back here or ye'll walk the plank."
"I don't know you." Noah said walking faster. Then he spotted Claire. "Hey, you found a costume yet?" He asked relieved to talk to someone normal.
"What do you think?" Claire held out two costumes. "I can be Strawberry Short Cake or Wonder Woman."
"Strawberry what?" Noah asked confused.
"It's a whole doll line complete with cartoon from the 80's. It was my mom's favorite when she was a kid. I still have her collection of figurines." She said by way of explanation.
"Oh, right." Noah feigned understanding.
"Argh, me hearty, ye better move along. We need to weigh anchor soon." Rex interjected.
"Oh, hi Rex, I'm still deciding. I think Circe is too." She nodded to the girl behind her.
"Yeah, there's too many choices." Circe sighed.
"Ye better put a move on wench! Ye wasting time that we can be filling our coffers." Rex growled in his pirate voice.
Circe narrowed her eyes. "Excuse me?"
Rex immediately straightened up. "Nothing. Take your time. I'll just go stand over there away from the angry… I mean forgiving, wonderful girlfriend." Rex edged away from Circe's glare.
"Oh! How about we go together as something?" Claire pulled out two outfits from the rack.
"Cheech and Chong?" Noah asked.
"No! Sonny and Cher." Claire replied.
"Of course. Haha, I was just joking." Noah laughed nervously then he turned to Rex. "Who's Sonny and Cher?" He asked in a whisper. Rex shrugged.
"I'm not even sure I want to do Halloween." Circe interrupted as she tossed another costume into the discard pile. "I mean I spent most of my life as a freak. I'm not sure I want to dress like one."
"You were never a freak." Rex said adamantly.
Circe looked at him in surprise. "Wow, that was really sweet."
"Just freakishly cute." He batted his eyes at her.
"Aaaand you lost it." Circe said flatly. She mindlessly rummaged another rack. "How about this?" She held up a gothic dress.
"Oh, it'll look so cute on you." Claire declared.
"Yeah, it's very you." Rex added.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Circe frowned at him.
"Uh, nothing… just that it uh… you know it's uh… Noah?" Rex looked at his friend for help.
"Nuh-uh, not touching that." Noah told him.
"Well, I'll get this anyway." Circe said letting him off the hook. "I'm ready to go now."
"Great. " Claire to Noah's relief put the Sonny and Cher costume back and picked up the Wonder Woman costume.
They made their purchases and left the costume shop to go back to their dorm rooms.
0o0
Rex posed in front of the mirror in his pirate costume. "This is great. I don't even have to comb my hair."
"I'm not sure that's a good reason to like a costume." Noah said from the bathroom.
"Are you kidding? If Halloween was two days, I wouldn't even have to shower!" Rex said.
"Ugh, don't start that." Noah walked out of the costume. "Well, what do you think?"
Rex glanced at him before turning back to his own reflection. Then he did a double take.
"What are you suppose to be?" He gawked.
"I'm a molecule of water." Noah announced.
"Are you serious? They make lame costumes like that?" Rex asked.
"It's not lame! It's cool. See I have two oxygen attached to my hydrogen." Noah said indignantly.
"No… that's too easy." Rex said shaking his head. "Look whatever, let's just go get the girls." Walking over to the girl's dorm across the street, Rex knocked on the door. When no one answered right away, Rex went to knock again. Noah slapped his hand away.
"Not this again!" Rex said exasperated. "It's not a doorbell, okay? I can knock as many times as I want!" He proceeded to bang on the door.
"Okay, okay! Where's the fire?" Circe's grumpy voice came from the other side. The door flung open. "What?"
"Oh, uh nothing… just proving a point to Noah." Rex said rather sheepishly.
"What? That you can be annoying?" Circe asked.
"No." Rex glared at Noah.
Noah just looked at him smugly.
Claire came to the door. "Hey, you know? Circe told me that she never went trick-or treating. I think we need to go."
"Um, aren't we a little… old to be trick-or-treating?" Noah asked.
But Rex was already getting excited. " That's a great idea. Back in Providence Bobo snuck me out one Halloween and we went trick-or treating! It was a blast until Six found us. Then he took all my chocolate bars and left me with the candy corn."
Everyone shuddered. "Eww, candy corn."
"Come on! We have to do it. I know I'll call Meechum." Rex pulled out his cell phone.
"Why?" Noah asked.
"We'll go trick-or-treating with Sarah. That way it won't look weird." Rex explained. "I'm a genius."
"I don't know if Dr. Meechum would let us use his daughter that way." Circe said doubtfully.
"Come on, me and Pete are like this." He crossed his fingers to illustrate the point. "Hello, Doc?"
0o0
"Come on, why not?" Rex now stood in front of Meechum's doorway.
"Because I'm not sure I trust you with my daughter." He snapped. "Remember the amusement park?"
"She came back safe and sound! Besides that wasn't my fault." Rex protested.
"Rex, it's okay. We'll just go to the party." Circe tugged on his arm. Rex pulled Circe and shoved her in front of Meechum.
"Look at this face." Rex was squeezing Circe's cheeks with his hand. "Does this look like a person who would let anything happen to sweet little Sarah? Besides, she's never been trick-or-treating. She's been deprived of a vital life experience!"
"Rex? That hurts." Circe said through her pursed lips.
"See, she's hurting inside from the years of deprivation." Rex cried. Circe rolled her eyes. Meechum face palmed.
"Dad? Can I go with them?" Sarah appeared in the back. Meechum looked at her with concern.
"Now Sarah, remember what happened…" He started.
"Please daddy? Pretty please?" She looked at him with big sad eyes.
"With a cherry on top." Rex added. Meechum glared at him then turned to look at Sarah. Finally he sighed.
"I want her home in an hour." He said sternly.
Rex let go of Circe and whooped. Circe rubbed her face. Rex grabbed Sarah's hand and pulled her to where Noah and Claire were waiting at the end of the walkway.
"Wait, I need to get my costume!" Sarah said.
"Oh yeah, sure." He turned to face a very annoyed Meechum.
0o0
"This is kinda fun." Circe admitted.
"You just have to know which houses to go to." Sarah explained. She pointed at some houses. "You see how they're all decked out? Those usually have the best candy… except that one. He's a dentist. He gives out floss and toothbrushes."
"I told you this is fun." Rex said walking up another pathway.
"Don't go there." Sarah warned. "The lady that lives there is… strange."
"Now, that's not nice." Rex admonish as he rang the doorbell. "I'm sure she's perfectly…" The door creaked opened. Rex screamed. A lady in curlers and a green face mask stood in her robe holding a large butcher knife.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I was just chopping up some veggies." She apologized. "Now what do you nice people want.'
"Uh, trick-or-treat?" Rex mumbled.
"Oh, is it that time of year again?" She smiled cracking some of the green plaster on her face. I don't really have any candy but wait here…" She walked back into her house.
"See, she's not that bad." Rex said.
"I don't know." Noah cleared his throat. "I'm not sure this is such a good idea."
"Maybe we should go." Claire said nervously.
"Oh come on, don't be such a…" Rex screamed again as he turned around to see the lady holding dripping red stuff.
"I didn't have a container. But here, I just made it. Meatballs." She held out her hand oozing with sauce.
Rex stared with his mouth open. Circe nudged him. He held out his bag and she dumped in the meatballs.
"Enjoy!" She smiled before closing the door.
Rex stared at his dripping bag.
"See, told ya." Sarah noted. "At least it wasn't a wombat."
The teens stared at her.
"Come on, time's wasting!" She skipped off.
0o0
The gang walked back to campus.
"How was your first trick-or treating?" Claire asked Circe.
"Mmmm, it was interesting and I definitely see the appeal of it but I think I leave it to the little kids." She replied. She turned to Rex. "Was it how you remembered it?"
"I don't remember getting meatballs." Rex muttered still trying to get the tomato stains off his costume.
"Leave it alone." Noah told him. "It just looks like part of your costume."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Rex stopped fussing and walked to Circe. "I guess it wasn't your best Halloween ever."
Circe looked at him. "Technically this is my first Halloween so it is my best Halloween ever."
"That's what I like about you." Rex beamed as he draped an arm over her. "Technicality."
Noah stopped and made a face. "Wait, that didn't even make any sense." He ran to catch up.
As they walked to the fraternity house, where the party was held, they walked right in. The blended in with the other costumed college students.
"Well, I guess it wasn't completely how I imagined it to be. But it certainly is a memorable one." Rex said to Noah.
"Hey, does anyone else smell oregano?" Some asked out loud.
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Happy Halloween although I don't celebrate and I don't have good memories about this holiday.