You Can't Scare Me | Lucas

[Georgina Parkinson]

It was Georgina's first Halloween at Hogwarts and her costume was... well, it was crap. She didn't know any spells that would allow her to make something really cool or add fancy effects, so she was stuck with something plain and boring. She'd told her parents to send her something scary that she could wear and their response had been to send her some fluffy paws and a head band with cat ears on, and tell her they would look good with the cat-face dress they'd packed in her case before she left for school. Since she really didn't have any other options, she'd had no choice but to go with it and dress as a cat. A cat! Pft! That wasn't scary at all. In fact, she'd never understood why people ever dressed as cats for Halloween. Sure, there was that superstition about black cats and everything, but it seemed the most ridiculous and pointless excuse for a costume to her. And here she was, stuck in that very costume. Thank goodness she hadn't been sent a stupid tail to go with it! 

Once her face was painted - about the only part of her costume that actually looked decent - she headed out of the dungeons to see what event the school had in place. It would probably be stupid. Her first stop had been the hall. The party itself would be pathetic since it was a school party, but she wasn't going to pass up the chance of free sweets from Honeydukes. She stuffed some down her boots and some more in her gloves, then left the Hall, sucking on a lolly shaped like a pumpkin. Oh, how creative they were...

Between the choice of a Haunted House and  pumpkin carving there was absolutely no doubt where she was going to go. What sort of idiot would want to carve pumpkins? That was probably where all the freaks and mudbloods would be hanging out. No, a Haunted House was much more her style. Georgina strode confidently along the foggy path that took her to the House and looked over the front of it for a few moments, taking in the size of it, before heading straight for the front door. 

[Lucas Cassidy]

Lucas fiddled with the odd looking vampire teeth that he had purchased one time for Halloween, in all honesty, he hated the whole idea of the occasion but he loved the history behind it, to him it was fascinating and believed that people were not celebrating it but in fact mocking it. He had already pulled on his old clothes, (http://www.polyvore.com/lucas_halloween_costume/set?id=133930458) which had been generously drowned in fake blood, and carefully pushed in the fake teeth, applying some of the fake blood to his chin and corners of his lips to add a more horrifying effect. His aim was a vampire but he instead looked a bit like a cannibal, or as people called them, a zombie which didn't give him much encouragement to go out to the party or any of the events held at the school on this Halloween night.

Once he was ready and the blood had somewhat dried, he headed out in direction of the party. He had never been to any event like this before, since he had been homeschooled and even though he always denied it, he was the biggest scaredy cat in his household so he never participated in any 'trick or treat'ing. He felt a tinge of nervousness in the back of his mind and in the pit of his stomach, what was he doing attending when he could stay in his room and read? His curiosity obviously beat his common sense on this one. As he entered the hall, the overwhelming and most indefinitely sickening scent of sugar attacked his senses causing him to freeze for a moment, never had he come into contact with such an awful stench. Like all children, Lucas loved sweets, but to be in a room with all sorts of assorted candies, he almost couldn't take it. As quick as he came, he left again, of course after swiping a sweet or two from one of the many large bowls over flowing with endless amounts, no doubt a lot of stomaches would be aching by the end of the night. He then headed outside of the school itself, following a trail of pumpkins; with no idea of what to expect or where he was actually going. There was some sort of announcement that had told them that outside would be pumpkin carving and a haunted house, of course he didn't want to do either but the haunted house seemed more daring, and again it spiked his curiosity. After a few moments on the trail, he decided to step over the glowing pumpkins and head off in the direction of the haunted house.

Of course, it was already dark but it was almost impossible to see with all of the fog surrounding the house itself, he walked cautiously up the path until he came close enough to see the house itself, just the outside was enough to send the poor boy running, but his curiosity forbid it as slowly made his way closer. He stopped for a moment and stared at the house, it really was terrifying but he took a deep breath and swallowed the lump in his throat before heading even closer, towards the front door, eagerly awaiting the horrors that the house would entail.