(24) Halloween

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Monday's. Also known not only as first day of the week, but most hated day of them all.

On this Monday, I practically force myself to not hit snooze for the third time on my alarm.

Maybe I'd be less tempted to hit it, if the alarm sounded a lot less like dying cattle.

Whatever.

As I rub the sleep out of my eyes, I pull myself to my feet and walk to the bathroom. The plan, was to curl my hair, and have a semi decent outfit for once.

The reality?

Faded eyeliner from the day before, coordinating perfectly with my baggy sweatshirt,  old leggings and matted boots, long overdue of their expiration date.

"Morning." I throw my bags into the backseat of Jared's car. He's taken to picking me up lately, since things are still in rough waters with Parker.

"Who'd you stay up so late banging last night?" Jared raises an eyebrow.

Oh, Jared. How I've missed you.

"Actually, I was hanging out with Elle and then planning our Halloween costume."

"And I wasn't invited?!" He mock scoffs.

"Would you like to join us?" I roll my eyes.

"Yes. Yes I would. I'd also like to invite Mason and Parker, so I'm not the only testosterone containing human in this group."

"Did you just assume my gender?"

"Okay, you seriously need to stop with that before someone takes you seriously." Jared laughs.

I chuckle, "We're debating between movie characters or princesses."

"I, for one, nominate princesses."

"You'd be a princess as well then."

"Okay, on second thought, movie characters actually sounds like a pretty great idea."

"Thought so." I chuckle.

"What movie?" He asks.

I shrug, "Anything really. We were thinking of superheroes, but that seems overused."

"You should do the Suicide Squad characters." Jared grins.

I clap my hand against the door, "Did an actual good idea just come out of your mouth?!"

"You know what else can come out of your mout-"

"Shut it. Are there enough characters for all of us?"

"Well, Enchantress and Harley for you and Elle. There's Deadshot, Joker, Captain Boomerang, Diablo, wait, how many do we need?"

"You, me, Elle, Mase, Parker, Adrien, and possibly one more."

"Who's the last one?"

"One of my friends invited me to a Halloween party, so I don't know if he wants to dress up with us, or do his own thing."

"Well, we can give this unsquad member the shittiest character option then. I've got dibs on Deadshot."

"His name is Myles." I inform Jared.

"Nice to know. Did I ask?"

"Do I care that you asked?"

"Did I ask if you cared if i asked?"

"Do I care that you asked if I cared if you asked?"

"I'm confused. The answer, however, is the same answer one should result in when asking themselves if it's a smart idea to lead on at least three different guys at once. And the answer is..?"

"Hell yeah." I say sarcastically.

"Wrong. The answer is: probably not."

I bite my lip, "Parker doesn't even talk to me, Mason and I, I'm not even sure. We're something, but how do I just assume that? And Myles and I are just friends. And no offense, but I could never look at you that way."

"Believe me sister, I couldn't look at you that way either. I think it's something about your face.."

I slap him, "Look, we're here. I'd better get out of the car now so I don't have to embarrass myself by walking in with you."

"Oh, shut up." He rolls his eyes.

I hop out of the car, "Have fun walking in alone, loser!" I laugh, slamming the car door shut and walking inside.

-

"I hate school." Elle groans. I glance around the table, which I've now nicknamed 'Table of Awkwardness' due to the cold glares driving a rivalry against Parker and Mason, and the sexual one sided tension between Elle and Jared, the feelings of course, coming from the latter.

"Did Lex tell you our Halloween plans?" Jared asks.

"Lexa! You planned Halloween with that dork and not me?" Elle exaggerates.

"We planned it originally E, Jared just thought of a movie cast idea."

"Suicide Squad." Jared grins.

"What if forsay, one of us isn't suicidal? Do we have to die along with the rest of the group, or will the squad hate us if we don't jump off the bridge even though our friends do?" Mason raises an eyebrow.

"They're not actually suicidal. They're escaped, well not really escaped, but like bad villain type people. And then they help save the world." Jared announces.

"I'm definitely being Enchantress." Elle grins, "This is a really good idea Jare."

Jared looks down, and I can barely make out the light coating of red, now covering his cheeks, "Thank you." He mumbles.

"I guess I'm Harley then." I smile, "Sounds good to me."

"Joker." Parker smirks.

I look at him.

The smirk remains a mask over his face.

Of-fracking-course Parker decides to be the Joker, simply because I'm Harley.

I bet he wouldn't want it anymore if me and Elle switched roles.

"How about someone helps those less educated in this subject?" Mason questions, "Or to put it in a more direct way, someone get their head out of their fanboy asses and explain to me what's happening."

"I dibsed Deadshot." Jared declares, "Mason, you could be Diablo, he's lights fires with his hands. Or there's Killer Croc or-"

"I'll take this fire dude. Seems like we have a lot in common. Both of us, clearly, too hot for our own good."

Parker just sits there, a stupid smirk on his face, while Mason rants about Diablo, completely unknowing.

And me? All the sudden I was thinking, maybe Harley and I don't have much in common after all.

She's brave, fearless, unstoppable..

And I'm Alexis Anderson. Highly conflicted teenager, not even brave enough to ask my kind of boyfriend what we are, establish friends with my kind of frenemy, or even text Myles first.

Suddenly, Monday just got a little bit worse after all.

AUTHORS NOTE
I wasn't going to upload this right away, since I just did, but I'm at 98k reads! Thought I should update because of that.

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