Drunken Clowns And Disappointments.

1 day.

That's how long I have to find a costume. That's not nearly enough time to even function properly let alone find a costume.

Tyler, who by the way finally asked me out, wanted me to go to this stupid party with him. Mason wasn't too happy I agreed seeing as our first party, I ditched and read in the car.

Maya dragged me through the busy mall and into the even busier costume shop. There was people everywhere. I'm pretty sure that one of the kids running around elbowed me on purpose so I stuck my foot out to trip him but Maya gave me a look that made me stick my foot back in.

She dragged me over to the "adult" costumes and basically threw a bunch of lingerie at me. "So are we at Costume City or Victoria Secret. I get confused sometimes."

Maya looked at me and frowned. "Why don't you go look for something?" But as soon as she said that, she looked as If she wanted to take it back. Because 5 minutes later, I came back with a Cookie Monster suit. She groaned and and picked up a costume off the wall and threw it in my direction. "Go." She shooed me off into the fitting rooms.

The costume she picked out was the mix between a sexy nurse and a dead one. Which was pretty odd. The costume was all white aside from the blood on it, it came with knee highs and a nurses hat... Oh wait, I'm a murder because I also pulled out an axe. Well that's ironic?

I tried it on and I only looked a bit slutty and I was already tired so I decided it was fine for now. I left the dressing room with the costume in hand and walked towards a waiting Maya. "Ya like?" I nodded but as we were going to pay, I grabbed the Cookie Monster costume just in case.

"Wait Maya, what'd Ya get?" She smiled and showed me her costume.

"A zombie 'ex wife'" she laughed at her mean girl reference. It wasn't exactly like Cady's it was a bit more slutty? Shorter, dirtier and with Maya's body, more seductive. Maya looked at me expectantly and to feed into her obsession, I quoted the movie as so.

"I'm a mouse, duh." I pointed at my head and Maya smiled like a kid in a candy store. We payed for our costumes and went to the food court in the mall. Maya ordered us both smoothies and fries.

We talked about her trip to Mexico and she complained about how her cousin left her in the middle of nowhere to go with some guy she had just met and Maya was stuck at a party with a bunch of people she didn't know.

She ended up calling her dad and he picked her up. And although Maya vowed to never talk to her cousin again, she still spoke of how she missed her already. I played bingo on my phone as she continued to talk about Mexico.

Eventually she stopped talking and allowed me to go home with my costumes and newly developed headache.

Dad and Kelly were both sitting on the couch talking when I walked in. I walked upstairs to my room and threw my costume into the closet and fell onto my bed.

I didn't take me long to fall asleep but when I finally did, my phone rung.

It was Maya and she was reminding me to pick her up tomorrow, I responded with a bunch of groans into the phone. After she hung up, I dozed off again.

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I woke up to the annoying sound of an alarm. I, as always, rolled out of bed and onto the floor. I had to wake up early because dad needed me to drive him to work because I wanted his car and not mine. Mainly because I didn't want to put gas in my car.

But I started to deeply regret telling him I would. I slipped on my slippers and threw my hair up in a bun. I walked downstairs and poured myself a cup of coffee and say at the table.

Dad came downstairs fully dressed. He looked at me and began laughing. "Is your costume for today your grandmother? Because you look just like her right now." I rolled my eyes and sat down my cup.

"Are you ready?" He stopped laughing and nodded. I got in the passenger seat, still half asleep and dad drove to work. It is a pretty silent drive seeing as I was close to snoring the whole time.

We pulled in the drive way of my dads job and he kissed me on the forehead before going into work. I scooted over to the drivers side and drove home with the radio to keep me awake.

I got home and grabbed my two costumes and a few other things and drove over to Maya's house. She opened the door happily only to see my half awake , half asleep face. Maya was always a Morning person while I thought morning was way too early to even began thinking, let alone do stuff.

I held out the bag in my hand to her and pushed pass her into the house. Her dad was in the kitchen cooking breakfast and sent me a rueful smile. "Morning Charlie."

Maya came into the kitchen and sat at table. " Ew dad, don't call her Charlie, call her Charlotte, it's more adultish." I plopped down in front of her and grabbed her phone from her hand. After checking the time, I groaned aloud. She laughed and snatched her phone back. "We have..." She counted the hours on her fingers."8 hours and 30 minutes." She looked at my hair and frowned "We should start now."

After a short breakfast and a quick shower, Maya started on my hair and despite my protest, she once again curled my hair, after teasing most of it. She added temporary red dye to the tips giving me more of an "murderer look"

After my hair was done, she insisted I sit down and do nothing while she did her hair. She did her best to mimic Cady's hair. After about 30 minutes of teasing, she straightened the rest and wet it so it would poof up. She smiled victoriously and started her make up, which she claimed would only take "a few minutes". But it's like going shopping with her, a few minutes is an hour basically.

After perfecting her make up, she threw me into the chair and began on my make up, much to my dismay. To say Maya wasn't gentle, would be a complete and udder understatement. She poked my in the eye like 7 times. And man does that stuff hurt.

After like 30 minutes of being poked in the eye, she released me from the death chair and threw my costume at me... Or rather, my face. I quickly dressed because that 8 hours turned into 2 reaaaalllyy fast. While I myself took 20 minutes to figure out how to get the costume on, Maya had it on in record time.

We did a few touch ups on my makeup and hair and then left for the party. But not before receiving disapproving looks from her dad. After about 10 minutes of debating, when finally left the house and were on our way to the party.

When we pulled up to the house, I almost cried. When Mason took me to that "bonfire" it wasn't even close to how bad this was. One word. Clowns. Like five of them just sitting on the lawn. Don't they have a life! Like outside of murdering and eating people!! Why are they here!!!!!

Maya must have heard my hyperventilating because she grabbed my hand and gave me a reassuring squeeze. I was the least but assured, but I trusted her anyways. Slowly I got out of the car and Maya held on tightly to my hand as we crept past the creepy killer clowns.

We made it safely into the house. Inside it was chaos. There were people everywhere. On the couches, in the middle of the room, in the corners, halls, bathroom, and I'm pretty sure bedrooms. I made a mental not to avoid them.

Maya dragged me along until we found Tyler who was Count Dracula. "I come to suck your blood." He said in a weird voice. Somehow, he made Dracula HOT. He leaned towards my neck and placed a single kiss on it and then whispered in my ear. "You look hot." I blushed as he slowly pulled away, placing another kiss on my cheek.

He handed me a drink and I frowned at the contents, but before I could protest, Maya had already drunk her cup and insisted I drink mine. I touched the fowl smelling liquid to my tongue and cringed as it burned the back of my throat. Maya smiled at me and I weakly held up my thumb. This what my first time drinking, aside from when I was 12 and stole a sip of my moms wine when she wasn't looking.

She gave me an enthusiastic thumbs up back and frowned into the cup, suddenly feeling tipsy. Maybe I was what they called a "lightweight". Tyler grabbed my hand and led me into the dance floor, where his hands found their way to my hips. For a second I froze, but then I began to move along to the beat. It felt unnatural for me to be moving like this, but then I remember all the stuff I did with Mason, and I began to dance harder.

For a moment, I was lost in dancing, lost in Tyler, and was able to forget about everything. But then suddenly I couldn't breathe. I needed to go outside. I needed fresh air. I gave Tyler a smile before stumbling outside and sitting on the porch.

I don't know if I got too caught up in the moment, but it made me feel sick. I put my head in my lap to keep myself from puking.

I heard the cracking of leaves and I assumed some drunken idiot had stumbled out into the yard and prayed they were too drunk to notice me. I liked up from my lap and my breathe hitched in my throat.

There was a clown, standing directly in front of me. His cracked a sickly smile and I was frozen. I felt a stray tear escape my eye and I still couldn't move. I wanted to run, to scream , to do something but just sit here.

He took a step towards me and I felt my body begin to shake. The clown gets closer and finally, I scream. I don't know how loud I scream or if anyone can hear me, but I scream. But this doesn't phase him, he only gets closer and I cry harder.

Finally I hear the padding of feet and I cover my ears. I hear muffled yelling and finally the clown takes off his mask to reveal a confused Mason. Maya grabbed my hand and hugged me tightly.

"She's scared of clowns you dumb ass." Masons face finally registered that I was crying and he looked regretful. If he hadn't just scared the hell out of me, I'd feel bad for him.

He began to say something but Maya quickly cut him off and picked me up off of the ground. She walked me to the car, and quickly realized that both of us had something to drink. "You know what, I only had a half of a cup so." She hopped in the front seat and drove us back to her house.

I was almost positive that I wasn't going to sleep that night.

God. Mason really screwed up this time.

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Oh My Lanta. I'm sorry I took so long to update! It's almost finals week and I'm stressing. And a bunch of writers block didn't help. So I help you LOVE LOVE LOVE this chapter because I worked extra hard on it.

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