Year 2-8: The Halloween Party

“A Halloween party?” Riku asked.
Yuusuke nodded happily. “My parents will be busy and my siblings are spending the night at friends’ houses or our grandparents place so I´m essentially alone. I thought we could dress up, watch horror movies and eat candy until we throw up.”
“I don´t know about throwing up but I like the rest.” Takumi said, putting an arm around Yuusukes shoulder.
“My brother has a collection of classic horror movies.” Nozomi said.
“Dressing up, you mean all scary and spooky?” Yuri asked excitedly.
Riku as silently looking on as everyone was talking all excited. He had never really celebrated Halloween, so he didn´t know how to react. Then he had an idea. “Should I ask Kishimoto, if he wants to come?”
Yuusuke quickly turned to him blushing furiously. “Why? He´s not even in your club.”
“You like him and you two would get a chance to get to know each other better.” Riku said.
“Just because I think he´s good looking doesn’t mean I like him!”
“Sure.” Takumi laughed.
“Oh what´s this about?” Nozomi asked curiously, Riku explained what had happened during the sports day. Nozomis eyes lit up. “Ask him!”

Riku now stood next to Kishimoto; they were on their way to the science classroom. He was starting to feel awkward. How could he ask him? Just straight out Riku thought. “So Kishimoto, do you have plans for Halloween?”
“Why?” Kishimoto turned to him.
“We´ll be having a party.”
“I don´t know. I might have to take care of Miyako.” As soon as Kishimoto saw Rikus confused face he added. “A relative.”
“Oh ok. Yuusuke-kun might be sad about that, but if you don´t have time.”
“Why would Yuusuke-kun be sad?” Kishimoto sounded interested.
“Oh it was his idea, the party, I mean.”
Riku could see Kishimotos face light up; a small smile was forming on his lips. “I´ll see what I can do.”

“You made it!” Riku met Kishimoto on the way. He was dressed as a vampire, Riku as a ghost.
“I thought it could be fun.” Kishimoto answered. Riku could have sworn he saw his friend blush under the white make up.
Yuusuke opened the door excitedly. He was dressed as a kitsune. Now Kishimoto really was blushing, Riku wasn´t imagining it anymore. He left the two talking and walked down the hallway towards the living room.
“Buh!” Was screamed into his face by two bloody kappas. Riku startled a bit.
“What the hell?” He yelled at them, the twins laughed.
He found Nozomi and Satsuki looking through Yuus movies. “What do you think? Shu made it for me.” Nozomi showed off her costume. “You´re the cutes zombie I´ve ever seen.”
He heard someone clear their throat behind him. It was Satsuki in a witch costume. “You´re even cuter!” He hugged her.
“Are we too late?” Kiyoko asked. She and Takumi just arrived.
“You came together?” Yuri asked smiling.
Takumi, in werewolf costume, blushed. “No we just met in front of the door.” He made his way next to Nozomi, looking at the movies.
Kiyoko smiled, she was dressed as a puppet. “I´m glad I managed to make it.”
Riku sat down at the table with her. “Did something happen?” He asked concerned.
“My father didn´t want me to leave. Even tough mother had allowed it. They had an argument over the phone; my mother is in Sydney right now. Well after their argument my mother´s secretary came to pick me up. Oh and she gave me this.” Kiyoko pulled out bags upon bags of candy out of her handbag.
“Candy!” Yuusuke came running towards Kiyoko and hugged her. Kiyoko looked a bit uncomfortable.

Yuusuke prepared snacks and the masses of candy everyone had brought. They all sat down in the, now very cramped, living room. Riku and the others made sure Yuusuke and Kishimoto would be sitting next to each other. Nozomi showed a movie The thing. With that their night of horror began. Riku and Satsuki held hands during all the movies, his girlfriend might be good with scary slides and roller-coasters but just like him she couldn´t handle scary movies very well. Riku looked around to the others: Yuusuke was asleep on Kishimotos shoulder which the second year didn´t seem to mind all too much. Yuri was hiding her face in Nozomis chest, Nozomi just starred at the screen, apparently with a mixture of fear and excitement. Yuki and Takumi were talking about how stupid the protagonist was and Kiyoko watched in silence.

After what felt like a hundred movies to Riku they decided it was time to go to sleep. Which was easier said than done, he was so paranoid every shadow looked like some deranged serial killer or monster trying to kill him. He managed to fall asleep before noticing though.

The next day they were awoken to a freshly made breakfast, Yuusuke stood in the kitchen smiling.
“You can cook?” Kishimoto asked curiously.
Yuusuke blushed. “Well I´ll inherit the restaurant someday so I should be able to cook at least a bit, right?”
They ate, talking about the various weird nightmares they all had. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Yuusuke jumped up to see who it was. “Kiyo-chan your dad´s here.”
Kiyoko looked more scared than she did watching all those horror movies. She walked to the door and all Riku heard was. “I don´t want to go home with you!”
Her dad argued a bit, getting progressively louder and more aggressive.
Kishimoto and Riku went to help Kiyoko. Her father was holding her wrist, obviously hurting her. Kishimoto took the old man’s wrist squeezing it as hard as he could; Kiyokos dad let go of her immediately. “What do you think you´re doing?” He barked at Kishimoto.
“I could be asking the same thing. Hurting your daughter what kind of father would do that?” Kishimoto sounded really pissed off, almost like this became personal for him.
“Kiyoko-chan we´ll go home.” Riku felt disgusted at how Kiyokos dad sounded like some pervert in a hentai. He didn´t feel comfortable letting her go home with him.
“Didn´t your mom agree to you staying over at my place for the rest of the weekend though?” He made up a lie as fast as he could.
“What?” Kiyokos dad looked angry. “I´ll talk to her, if I find out this was a lie…” He didn´t finish his sentence and he didn´t need too. As soon as he left Riku told Kiyoko to call her mother before her dad could.

Kiyoko hugged him under tears as soon as they stepped through Rikus front door. Satsuki brought some of her clothes over. Hitomi was confused at the situation until Riku and Kiyoko explained. Hitomis face changed. “Could you give me your mother’s phone number, there´s something I´d like to talk to her about.”