It's a Little Strange

1. UN-INVITED

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All the school seemed to talk about was Flash's Halloween costume party and it was starting to annoy the hell out of Peter. Sure, Flash threw oneamazing Halloween party as a freshman and was planning to continue the tradition. The hype was up. Peter watched as even the upperclassmen seemed excited about Flash's party; they often went up to Flash to talk about it.

"Oh yeah," Flash smirked at the older girl. He leaned against the locker and tried to seem all nonchalant. "There'll be booze, don't worry cupcake. The pool? Heated. And did I mention that I snagged DNCE to perform? Yeah, one of my dad's is a cousin of Joe Jonas."

Peter wanted to barf at Flash's attempt at flirting but getting a live famous band to play at a high school Halloween costume party? That was sadly pretty impressive to Peter.

He made the unfortunate mistake of walking by Flash. The bully spotted Peter trying to walk past the tall girl he was talking to. Flash nearly pushed the girl out of the way to get Peter's attention. He yelled, "Yo Penis Parker!"

Peter huffed out a breath. He stopped his stride to glance at Flash over his shoulder. Annoyed, he said, "What is it Flash?"

Flash stepped between him and the tall upperclassman, who appeared to be bored with their conversation. Flash didn't mind, however, because he was focused on Peter instead. "You heard of my party right?"

"Everyone has heard of your party," sighed Peter.

"That's right." His answer made Flash pull on a smug smile. "But, uh, I'm going to have to officially un-invite you to said party."

Peter blinked at him. No way, he thought. At the end of a Decathlon meeting, Flash made a big announcement. He had stood up on a chair and declared that the team was invited to his party when in reality, the entire school was silently invited to his party. It was a come-all party because Flash wanted everyone to know who he is and how rich he is. But damn him for making Peter the only person who technically wasn't allowed to go.

Peter's mouth had fallen slightly open. He didn't know what to say. What could he say? Sure, Peter wanted to go. He had never been to a party for more than five minutes and that was at Liz's house... which didn't go so well.

He started to speak, not quite sure what he was going to say. "Come on, Flash. You invited the entire Decathlon team and I am part of the team just like you."

"Since when?" he scoffed at Peter. "You barely made it on when we left for finals and you missed finals anyways. I'm surprised you're still attending school, much less on the team."

She came out of nowhere. It's like Michelle lives in the shadows. When Peter saw her, he nearly jumped out of his own skin. She eased up beside Flash with her terrifying blank expression on her face and she asked Flash, "Hey, are we allowed to bring plus one's?"

Flash did a jump. He spun around and stared at Michelle before he nodded. "Yeah, bring how many people as you want."

"Cool." Michelle turned away from Flash and she started to walk towards Peter. She forcibly shoved her shoulder against his and whispered: "You're my plus one" before she kept walking down the hallway.

Flash didn't hear her, thank god. Instead, he turned to the upperclassman girl who was starting to move away. He caught up to her to finish their conversation while Peter stared at Michelle.