Halloween In Morganville

Idiots

Shane and I both looked at Michael and Eve. Then I remembered Eve saying something about Michael having an idea.

"So Eve, what were you saying about Michael having some kind of idea?" I said.

Eve looked at Michael for a minute then said, "Well it was both of our ideas. Anyways, you know how Halloween is coming up next month right? And I LOVE me some Halloween."

We all started to laugh a little then she kept on talking. "What?", looking around at us. "There is nothing wrong with a teenager liking Halloween."

"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a NORMAL teenager liking Halloween. Eve, have you not looked in the mirror lately? I mean dang, every day is Halloween with the way you dress." Shane said then threw his head over the back of the couch and started to laugh.

I slapped him on the chest. Not hard. Just enough to make him shut up. I look over and see Michael hand Eve the tissue box off the night stand beside the chair. My eyes got wider and I laid back across Shane's arm along with the arm of the couch before Eve chucked the box right at Shane's head. It hit him in the forehead and landed in my lap. I sat back up, while Shane rubbed where the box hit him and looked at the box then started laughing at what I saw. The corner that had hit Shane square in the head was caved in along with both sides.

Shane couldn't figure out why I was laughing until I held the box up for him, Eve and Michael to see. After looking the box over Eve and Michael cracked up laughing. If I wasn't mistaken I could have sworn that I saw tears coming out of Eve's eyes 'cause she was laughing so hard.

"Dang it Eve! Are you sure you're a girl? Because from the way you throw I would have thought you were a dude", Shane said.

"Baby, just be glad that it was a box instead of her Mary Janes," I said still laughing.

Eve managed to choke out. "Yeah! But one thing CB I wouldn't DARE use my Mary Janes to throw at his head. His face might make my skulls jump off and run away. Plus I don't want them all messed up."

All of us were laughing. All of us except for Shane. I looked at him and made a sad face. You know when a girl pokes their bottom lip out, yeah that was the face I used. I leaned down and whispered in his ear, "Baby I'm sorry. But it was funny. Don't be mad at me. Please?" I looked at him and batted my eye lashes a little bit then he looked at me.

Once again everything around us was gone. Just me and Shane. He said, "Oh Claire. How can I be mad at you when you make that face? No, I'm not mad. But that did hurt."

I smiled and gave him a quick kiss. Then I looked at Eve and Michael who were still laughing their heads off.

"HEY! Alright, you guys let's calm down so we can get on with this little pow-wow and get something to eat", I said. I really was hungry. I hadn't eaten since lunch time and it was already about 6 p.m.

Eve and Michael calmed down enough to where they could tell us whatever their idea was.

"Now, please continue." I was trying to be nice.

"Well," Eve started off, "...like I was saying before I was so RUDELY interrupted." She looked over at Shane and stuck out her tongue, then looked back at me. "Michael and I had an idea for Halloween this year. Instead of us just hanging out around here and crashing Monica's party, we were thinking about throwing our own costume party. You know with everyone dressed up and a DJ. Something that would blow Monica's party away."

The Michael started talking. "I know you are probably thinking that we wouldn't be able to do it. But, me being the genius that I am, I talked to Amelie and she said that it would be fine to have one. The college students could come, along with the vampires if they wanted to pop in. I could play like I do down at Common Grounds but just a few songs. So we will have to find a DJ. That means they only other things to do is find a place to have it, clean it up, and decorate it. So, what you two think?"

I looked at Shane and shrugged my shoulders. He did the same so that meant we were on the same page. We looked at Eve and Michael while saying, "We're in!", at the same time.