Random stories from my life

The low budget toddler meet-and-greet

I just thought of this while reading something and thought you guys would wanna hear it. (How have I not told this story yet? I love this one)

One of my friends named Mia invited my sister and I to a home school Halloween party. We were both really excited yet nervous at the same time and bought our Halloween costumes to get ready.

If you've been following me for an extremely long time, you'd know that last year I dressed up as Chucky from Child's Play. Lainee dressed up as a slice of pizza and my mom didn't dress up as anything. If I could see into the future and know what kind of party this was, I would've never gone.

The party took place in a room in a massive library so I'd already been there because I love libraries. My parents bought me a fake, plastic knife to bring my look together and I took that knife with me EVERYWHERE.

I took it with me to the party and it ended up serving its purpose later on but I'll get to that eventually. My mom drove Lainee and I to the party and we walked in. As soon as I stepped foot into the party room and looked around, I wished I'd stayed home with Logan.

Almost everyone there was a toddler running around in a childish costume. One girl was dressed as Sofia The First and a boy was dressed as Luigi from Mario. Meanwhile I'm the girl taller than everyone else, wearing an orange wig with a freaking knife in her hand.

I backed into a corner of the room, embarrassed at how I looked so different from everyone else. Because Mia is always late I had to wait for her and her mom and brother to arrive. Lainee and my mom desperately tried to get me away from the wall but I wasn't moving.

Eventually a boy my age walked over to me and began to make conversation. He was ten years old so he was a year younger than me and was dressed as Peely from Fortnite. He had small banana guns that he'd shoot around which made me laugh.

However he kept asking me to put down my knife and aimed his guns at me and because I was so attached to my knife I didn't wanna put it down. Eventually Mia arrived and I became a lot more comfortable. My wig was itchy so my mom took it off and I let my natural hair down.

As we got pizza (Which sucked BTW) and sat down to eat the boy kept coming over to me and aiming his guns at me, demanding that I'd put down my knife. He did this about five times until I got sick of it and yelled, "Okay, fine, you and me bro, let's go!"

I got up and took my knife and stepped toward him. I began to beat him as hard as I could and after a few hits his mom dragged him away. I sat back down in my chair as Mia's mom started laughing at me.

The kid left me alone and after we'd all realized how terrible the party was, we left to do our own thing. We climbed up the stairs to another level of the library and played in the gaming room. I found The Maze Cutter there, which was a book I was wanting to read after I'd discovered the new series James Dashner had created.

I honestly had more fun in the library then at the party and I know that everyone else did too. Since then, we've referred to the party as The Low Budget Toddler Meet-And-Greet.