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Chapter 10: Come On Eileen

"Come on, Harley! We're gonna be late!" Carolyn yelled to me. I refused to go out to the Hallows Eve party looking like this. "I'm not coming out until I have my pumpkin costume back!" I yell back. "Harley Quinn- James, If you don't come out this instant you will have your computer and television taken!" My mother screams. She knew I couldn't have my computer taken. It was my life, and it was the only source of communication between me and TheFrais1234. I sigh and slowly open my door. I walk out, the clack of my heels were really irritating. I pick up my skirt and walk down the stairs. I hear squeals and I see my mother smiling. My dad looks nervous and Nick smiles at me. That was a first. "Sis, I must say, you look hot." Nick pulls me into a hug. " Thanks, Nicky, but your going to mess up my hair. " I pull away from him. "Carolyn, I have to say you did a wonderful job on her hair." I smile. I walk into the downstairs bathroom and look at myself. I was Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. My hair had a scarf tied up like a headband and my skirt was long and flowy. I smile at myself. I had never gotten dressed up for Halloween. I'm usually handing out candy and watching cheesy horror flicks. I notice Dana is behind me, leaning against the door frame.

"You look astonishing, Quinn." I turn around and chuckle. "Thank you, Ms. Sailor." I refer to her sailor uniform. It was actually prettier than mine, but a lot shorter. She takes a bow and we laugh. Then Captain Hook comes up to us. "Heard laughing." Autumn says, tipping her hat. Her red and black costume was sexy, even I had to admit it. "Jesus, your boobs are damn near falling out. " Carolyn comes next to me and stuff my boobs into my shirt. It didn't make a difference because they looked the same. After many tries, Carolyn sighs and gives up on me. She moves to Dana and looks at her up and down. "Your boobs aren't visible. Hand me some tissue, Quinn." I pass her the tissue, confused on what she's about to do. She takes half of the tissue and stuff it in Dana's chest area. "Carolyn, why are you improving our appearance?" I ask, out of curiosity. She looks at me, still stuffing tissues in Dana's chest area. " No one knows who we are, what we do or how we do it. Well tonight is the night that we get to show them that we're somebody and that we matter. Now, Autumn, we need to make you show a little bit more." She stops working on Dana and works on Autumn. I laugh and adjust my left heel. Carolyn is done working with Autumn and stands up straight.

"Okay ladies, let me see those smiles we worked on." We all smile seductively and Carolyn claps her hands. "Great! Now we're ready to go." We all go into a single file line. "Okay gals, chins up, smiles on." They do as she says except for me. I'll do that when we actually get to the party. We all walk to the front door and Brenda, whom is dressed as Athena, smiles at me. "When did you get here?" I smile at her and run to give her a hug. " Oh, a few minutes ago. Your mom called me and told me about the Rocky Horror Picture Show thing they're having at the community theatre." The girls run back in. "Hey mom." They say in unison. Brenda opens her arms and one by one they hug her. "Are you performing with them?" "Oh, no. I can't sing." She laughs. I scratch the back of my neck. "I should probably get going. Carolyn and the girls are excited about this." I say backing away. Brenda waves goodbye as I close the door. Please Lord, let tonight be a good night I pray to myself as I get in the car.

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We get to the school within 20 minutes due to Dana's reckless driving. "Remind me to never ask you to drive my car ever again." I say to her, getting out of the car wobbly. "I most definitely will." She says, smoothing her skirt. Carolyn stands up and looks back at us. " Are we ready?" We nod our heads and begin walking up the school steps. "Remember now. Chins up, smiles on." She reminds us. When we walk in, the music is blaring and people are scattered everywhere. Autumn opens the door to the gym and everybody is dancing to the music. Some not completely on beat, but having fun. We walk onto the dance floor and suddenly, everyone's eyes were on us. I start moving to the wall, which was free of human life. I notice Dana, Autumn, and Carolyn following me. " Don't you guys want to dance?" I ask, crossing my arms and leaning against the wall. "They're playing awful music and until they play better ones, we're not dancing." Autumn says. We stay on the wall and talk until I hear a familiar tune. "Wait, wait, wait. Do you guys hear that?" I ask. They all get excited and we start squealing, causing us to get a few looks from others. "Oh my gosh, they're actually playing good music." Carolyn shouts. "Holy shit, we gotta dance." Autumn says, grabbing Carolyn's arm, who creates a train line. "Excuse me, get out of the way, move, get out of the goddamn way." We say to the people who were in our way. We find a clearing in the middle of the floor and begin to dance to Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners. We throw our hand out and move in the direction of circle. We continue creating new moves and then complete the song by holding hands, laughing, and spinning in a circle. That was the most fun I had ever had. Hopefully they keep playing good music.

"You guys, I'm thirsty. I'm gonna go get some punch." I say loudly. They nod their heads and I go look for the refreshments table. I finally stumble upon it, and a couple of jerks who seemed drunk. "Hey there, sexy. Wanna dance?" One of the creepers asks. "No thanks, I'd step on your toes." I say quietly. "I wouldn't mind." nuts he heard me. He says stepping closer to me. "I think you would. I'm pretty heavy." "I think I could lift you up." Another one of the guys say to me before lifting me in the air. I start punching the guy as hard as I could until he finally put me down. "I swear to God if you put another filthy hand on me, I will kill you." I say in my death tone. He challenges me and steps closer. I have two options: Throw the punch in his face and run like hell or Hit his spinal cord so he can be paralyzed for 30 seconds, then run. Option two had more action so as he stepped closer to me, I walked up to him, hit his spinal cord an ran. Only, minus the running part. I guess I didn't hit him hard enough and hit the wrong part, because he wasn't paralyzed and he was scooper- duper close to me. "I think she wants to be left alone." A familiar voice spoke. Boy, am I happy to hear you. "Harley, come here." Ethan commanded. I quickly smile at him. I walk to him and hid behind his back. "Sorry Ethan, I didn't know she was with you." One of them chuckles softly. Ethan looks at him and punches him in the face. The guy falls to the floor and Ethan grabs my hand. " We gotta run." He says and we take off. I couldn't contain my excitement and before I know it, I'm laughing my ass off. We run out of the gym and are blinded by the fluorescent lighting from the hallway. We stop by the water fountain and Ethan let's go of my hand.

"You know how badly that would've ended if I wasn't there? Why are you laughing?" He says, anger in his voice. I stop laughing. " I'm sorry. Thank you for coming for me." I say in a quiet voice. He looks at me and smiles. "You're welcome." I smile back at him. "So, what made you come over to the punch table?" I ask him. He scratches his neck. " I needed to get away for a moment." He says, sounding nervous. "Oh, is Megan here with you?" I ask him. He looks pained when I ask this. "Yeah, she's pretty pissed at me." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." "It's okay. I had- I had got the "wrong" color rose." I look at him with confusion on my face. "See, she's Belle from Beauty and The Beast, and she told me to get the rose that was in the movie. I got her a pink one because it was pink in the movie, but she kept saying it was red so," He looks down at his feet. "It was pink." I say after a few minutes of silence. He chuckles. "Thanks for agreeing."

" No problem." I say. "I'm kind of mad though." I tell him. "Why are you mad?" "I didn't even get my punch." I whine. Ethan smiles at me. "Well let's go get you some punch." He says and we make our journey to the vending machine. "So, why did those guys laugh at you when you stuck up for me?" Ethan chuckles. "Uh, yeah. They think that I can't do anything because I'm just on the swim team. Not the football or basketball team." "Well, what's so bad about the swim team?" I ask and look up at him. "People think it's a girls' sport because there's mostly girls on there."

"But I thought you were "Mr. Popular?" I chuckle. " Am I considered to be that?" He asks with confusion on his face. "Well, yeah. Everyone adores you." "Awesome! But no. There are a few people who think I'm a nerd or... gay." We both burst into laughter when he says this. When we approach the vending machine, I stop walking for a few seconds and Ethan looks back at me. "What are you doing?" He asks me. I turn around. "I have to get my money." I say, putting my hand down into my bra, searching for the dollar bills I put in there earlier. "So, you put your money in your bra?" He asks, my eyes go wide. "How did you know I put my money in my bra?" "You don't have a purse and that seems like the place most women put their money in. Plus, you're reaching down your shirt." He says nervously. I laugh as I grab the money and pop up. " Got it!" I say, holding the bills between my fingers. I walk to the machine and put my dollar in. I grab it and look up at the clock. 9:30. I look at the exit doors and Ethan notices me. "What's wrong?" He asks. "My parents are....do you wanna blow this thing off and go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show?" I ask him, thinking back to when my mom offered me a spot on the cast. "Ok, but first I have to ask, what is the Rocky Horror Picture Show?" My mouth drops and my eyes. "Are you just yanking my chain or do you seriously not know what the show is?"

Ethan shrugs his shoulders. I scoff. I grab his arm and start running to the exit. " Come on, we can make it." I say as we bust out of the school. Ethan gets his keys out and we run to his car. "I'm driving." I shout out. Ethan tosses me the keys and I unlock the doors and we slide into his Ford pick-up. "Let's go." I say excitedly, and we drive to the community theatre.