War in Broadway High

13. This is Halloween!

Don't mind me, suddenly continuing this as if it hadn't been over a year. I'll finish this story eventually even if we are all wrinkly and geriatric-bound by the time I do. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 13: This is Halloween!

Cady.

Weeks passed by. Time didn't care about flourishing love, the group's plans to save the school, their conflicts and hiccups. It just kept going, constant and relentless. And before they knew it, it was the first of October, and they had Jake's huge house party that night, the first of Fall, as if they had to start the month of Halloween right.

"IF I COULD CHANGE THE WORLD, I'D MAKE IT HALLOWEEN."

Karen's statement came so out of nowhere, and so loud, everyone at the Halloween store turned to look at her.

"Every single day," Karen continued, a dreamy smile on her face, not looking at anyone in particular, just speaking to nothingness. "Oh and also, have world peace. Maybe world peace should be first..."

Regina rolled her eyes with a scoff, and went back to looking for outfits, practically throwing to Gretchen's face what she didn't like, which so far was everything.

Karen cleared her throat, deciding to start over.

"Yes, if I could change the world I'd make us have world peace, and also Halloween, every single day."

"Didn't know you liked it so much," Cady noted, offering her a smile. "It's going to be the first Halloween for me."

"Of course I do! You can pretend to be someone else, like on the Internet, only in person. And with candy." As she spoke, Karen rifled through different outfits and accessories, grabbing a single thing of each.

The young store attendant had given up on trying to control all the teenagers that had walked into the store, and just watched helplessly from the cash register.

As she selected items, Karen got farther away from Regina, and Cady followed.

"It's like, when you are the hot one like me, you always have to work hard on being what people want to see, you know? But one day a year, you get to be someone else! But still hot." Karen sighed. "Maybe it's the closest I get to being me..."

Before that statement could be dwelled on any further, she continued. "Anyway! Hold my bag, please!"

Karen tossed her purse and items at Cady and approached the group of other teens there, who were pretty much on their tiptoes waiting for her approval.

"You can be whoever you want to be, and hot!!" she claimed going around, throwing princess tiaras on a puppy costume for one girl, a tutu for a ballerina costume being mixed with a pirate's eyepatch for someone else of neither gender. "Animal, mineral, even vegetation! Anything, while still sexy!"

She fixated on one particular freshman girl, and pulled up some items from Cady's hands. She then dragged the girl into the changing rooms to work her magic.

After several minutes, Karen came back out.

"Alright, you can come out now!" she called out to the freshman. "I give you... sexy corn!" she claimed excitedly, presenting the shy girl in the giant-sized corn costume.

Then she directed her attention back at the others, who were awaiting eagerly for her words, her acknowledgment.

"You can be whoever you wanna be and hot...pirate, ballet dancer, cat...you could be a sexy doctor, and cure some sexy cancer...! Wait...that's not right, is it?"

"Uhmm." Cady wasn't sure what to say. She was in awe at the way everyone there was looking at Karen, hoping for her approval, like maybe that could give them some social points on a scale that was invisible, but all too palpable.