Behind the mask

Okay before I begin I just want to tell you a little story from my grade 11 year back in high school.

It was Halloween and being the big dorks that we were, my classmates and I were so stoked to dress up and take part in the fashion show we put on every year in the cafeteria before the haunted house in the theater. A lot of people had been planning for weeks what they were going to be, individual or group costumes and it was great! So skip forward to after the fun of lunch break and go right to fourth period which was my Bio class and most of us were in costume and all seated except for a few people running late, no surprise. BUT! On that day everyone was in class, no one was missing and we spent the entire hour trying to figure out who the guy that walked in late dressed as Spider-Man was! Want to know the really stupid part that made us all want to bang our heads against the wall? We had assigned seating and like I said everyone was in class, yet it still took us about an hour to figure out who was dressed as Spider-Man!!!! This was like 9 years ago and it still pisses me off. Well that is what inspired this! Please enjoy!

I do not own anything recognized! Only this story is mine. There are references to the Princess Bride in here because that is one of my favorite movies and Carrie again I own nothing to do with those.

Halloween was a great time of year, the decorations were amazing, the costumes were spectacular and of course the goodies were the best. Parties were also high on the list on must haves for Halloween so when the invites were going around and the guest list was being made the excitement was rising.

Nico didn't know if it was a misprint or just one of those stupid Halloween pranks that fell under Trick or Treat but he stared at the invitation that had been placed in front of him for about five minutes debating whether he should go or not.

He had just been sitting in the library alone listening to his music while finishing up his assignment from yesterday that was due next period. People usually paid him no attention as if he just blended in with the background and honestly he preferred it that way, so why was he now looking at a small piece of paper with his name on it listing the time and location of some big Halloween bash? He hadn't even seen who had been passing around the invitations so he wasn't sure what the intention behind it was.

In all honesty he had no idea how to even react to being invited to a party whether it was a joke or not because he had never been invited to one before. Was this supposed to be a big deal? Was he supposed to be excited and giddy? He honestly had no idea.

He just knew that he wasn't going to ask his friends about it, knowing them they'd just make a big deal about it and make him regret ever bringing it up, it was always that way with them. Something about sharing in these milestones of his life or something like that, there was no way he was mentioning the invitation to them.

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As the day progressed more and more people were talking about the party and who should go as what and if they should get in on a group costume theme, some are talking about going as couples or hoping that if they can match their costume with someone else then maybe they would have a chance with them.

The highest on that list was Will Solace, he was popular and handsome, not to mention one of the nicest people you could run across in this school. So Nico wasn't surprised when he heard all of the people talking about how Will would be dressing up as a prince for the party.

Nico rolled his eyes, he could already imagine all of the would-be princesses there trying to charm Mr. Sunshine; the poor guy was probably going to be hounded all night because of it.