Fifth Member

October 31st 2011

      My alarm rang and I reached out to try and turn it off. "What time is - oh yea." I had set my alarm to wake me up super early today so I could dye my hair for my costume. I dragged myself out of bed and opened the closet to get out my costume, which was basically a yellow skater skirt, black bike shorts, yellow over the knee socks, my yellow converse, and a yellow tee shirt I sewed brown stripes on the back of, along with the edge of a plastic painted tail I cut and glued together with a waistband on the bottom. In addition, I was going to use face paint and had a headband that I suer glued plastic painted ear things onto. I checked the time, and went into the bathroom, throwing on my hair dye shirt, as I used to dye my hair all the time at home. I pulled both jars of Electric Banana Manic Panic out from under the sink, and opened one up. I spread the dye on every bit of my hair I could get, all the way from my root to the tips of my hair halfway down my back. I flipped over my hair and continued applying dye. When I was done, I walked into my room and set up all of my makeup on the desk with my mirror, then got on my laptop. I saw it was three thirty, meaning I had another half hour until I had to go wash out the dye. I just read a few stories I had downloaded and my timer on my phone buzzed. I got up and ran to the bathroom, and washed out the dye as fast as I could. I jumped out and dried my hair as fast as possible and managed to get it mostly dry in only ten minutes. I looked in the mirror. The color took pretty well but the underneath was iffy so I applied more dye there holding a mirror in one hand and facing away from the main mirror. I went back to my room where it was now four thirty. I only have to leans this for fourth five minutes so I set my timer and read some more on my laptop. As soon as my timer buzzed, I leaped off the bed and ran to the shower knowing at least Mali and Cal will be up soon wanting to get in. I washed it out as fast as possible and this time showered like normal minus hair then scrambled out and dried my hair. I started putting product on it to keep it from being frizzy when I dried it and finished off drying so it was barely damp. I heard a knock just as I was about to open the door, and flew out past Calum and closed my bedroom door behind me. I sat at the desk and brushed through my hair super fast before getting dressed. I put on the top last, getting the waistband of the tail on before pulling on the shirt. I brushed my fringe where I wanted it and brushed the rest back and stuck the headband on in a way that you couldn't see the band even though, like the rest of my costume, it was yellow. I sat back at my desk and started putting on makeup, starting with eyeliner, then mascara, eyeshadow (yellow of course), then red circles on my cheeks and a black triangle nose  with costume makeup. I then sat at painted my nails brown. When that was done it was six thirty, so I grabbed my book at and guitar and almost literally jumped down the stairs. I went into the kitchen where Calum was already in his robin costume and eating cereal at the table. "Ta-da!" I said spinning once I set my things down. "Damn. That took some serious work." He mentioned as I got myself a bowl of cereal as well. "I'm really excited. Halloween has always been my favorite time of the year." I said giddily. "Michael is going to die when he sees that." He said gesturing to my costume with his head. "Why?" I asked him, eating at the same time. "Seriously? Michael is so geeky. He loves Pokemon." Cal told me. "Really? I didn't know." I said and finished my breakfast. I looked at my phone and realized it was seven and jumped up, washed my bowl and spoon, then ran ran and got my things. Calum and I will barely get to school on time. "Cal come on we're going to be late!" I yelled and soon we were out the door.

      On the way, Calum was texting with Michael and Luke about god only knows what. We got there with a couple minutes to spare thankfully so we could drop our guitars off. "See you at lunch!" I called to him as I ducked away to my first class. School moved pretty quick today and I went to the music room instead of gym as always. With five minutes till the bell I grabbed my bag and hid in the little area  of the room that was almost like it was meant to be practice room only it was part of the main room. When the bell rang I got real quiet. I heard the boys come in. "She's normally already in here." Luke said confused. I left my bag and jumped out. All three of them screamed like little girls and I busted out laughing. "Happy Halloween!" I said happily as Cal glared at me, Michael was doubled over, and Luke was...Luke. "You suck." Michael said, then stood up and his eyes went wide and he sort of opened his mouth open and closed like a fish. "Told ya so." Calum said laughing. Luke had come as batman like he said he would and turns out Michael was Ash Ketchum. "Oh my goodness Mikey we match!" I said happily. Michael had snapped out of it, so I gave them each a hug. "That is so awesome Ashley." Michael said "did you dye this this morning?" He asked stunned. "Yea I had to get up pretty early." I laughed. "Aw you wore a skirt again." Michael whined. I sighed in frustration and went to get my guitar, sitting down on the floor. "Ash is sitting on the floor again!" Luke said excitedly and the boys grabbed their guitars and sat with me. "What today?" I asked. "Jaesey Rae!" Michael said and I pulled my camera up on my phone and filmed Ash, Batman and Robin playing Jaesey Rae by all time low. 

      All too soon the bell rang ending lunch and it was time for me to go to English. I said bye and left for my class. English always seems to take the most time, and I think it's because it's the class between when I see the boys. As soon as the bell rang I was the first one out the door. When I walked into biology, the boys were already there. "We're doing a lab today." Calum said happily since that meant we got free time. Under the table I opened a box of candy and poured some in my hand then tapped Calum's knee. He held his hand out and I dropped the candy into it then the same with Luke and Michael. "It's Halloween. I'm not going without candy." I joked as we ate. We finished the lab quickly then just talked for a bit. "I just realized I don't know when your birthdays are." I said thinking of how mine is coming up. "January 25th" Calum said first. "July 16th" Luke said with a smile. "Mine is November 20th!" Michael said excitedly. "No way!" I said in surprise. "Mine's the 18th." I told them. We talked about some other stuff, but mostly the boys were texting each other under the table. They're planning something. I don't like this. When class was over we all practically flew to the music room, and got our guitars. "We're going to your's right Mikey?" I asked walking with the boys outside. "Yep!" He said and we went of down the sidewalk to his house. 

      When we got to Michael's, we set our things down in his room and started decorating and setting up for the party we were having. It had been my idea, so I payed for a ton of streamers, balloons, and food. I pulled the streamers from my bag and unwrapped them all. Michael's parents had moved anything breakable out of the way and we just had a streamer war to decorate and it worked pretty badly so we picked them up and taped strips to the wall. It looked a little spastic, so I took all four rolls  and taped the ends to the corner and made spiraling lines that draped around the room. Next we took out the balloons, blowing them up with no helium. All together there were twelve bags worth of balloons, giving us two hundred forty balloons to blow up which took us around two hours. "I'm dying." I said drinking a giant glass of water after we finished. Balloons covered the entire floor  two layers high. We turned all the lights out and I put a couple little disco light things around the room. Michael hit the music just as I heard a doorbell. "Mikey!" I called. He got the door and people spilled in, dressed in their costumes. There were lots of boxes of pizza on the table, with pop and chips. An hour later, everyone has arrived and we're having a ton of fun. The pizza was gone which I'm pretty sure was all in Michael's stomach, a layer of balloons had been popped, and people were dancing to the music. This all continued for another few hours before people started leaving. By the time the last person left it was one am and we all fell into the balloons and passed out.