Bandu: Heeeeeyyyy!!!

The happy voice of my dearest friend comes out of his house and enters in my ears

Bandu: Here I am!

You: Wow, nice costume!

He's dressed as a zombie while I decided to come as a werewolf

Bandu: Thanks, your costume is great too!

You: I'm glad to hear that

Bandu: Let's go! Let's go! We're already late!

He starts floating rapidly towards the school

You: Hey, wait for me!

I start running after him. As we arrive we see students of various classes dressed as monsters and creatures. It feels like being surrounded by cosplayers

Bandu: What do you think the others are dressed as?

You: Hmm...

I start thinking

You: Expunged would probably be dressed as something abstract, Bambi could have come as something cute and Dave would have chosen something particular

Bandu: Yeah, that's possible

We reach our clubroom. There's an ominous grey fog seeping out from the bottom of the door

Bandu: Is it me or this is...fog?

You: It's just an effect, don't worry

Bandu stops floating and hugs my arm. I start shaking like a leaf

You: There's nothing to be afraid...

We slowly approach the door

You: Are you ready?

Bandu: ...yes

Bandu's grip tightens while I swing the door open. It's dark inside except for the dull blue-green light coming from somewhere

Bandu: H-hello?

No response

Bandu: Is there anyone?

Again no response, except for Bandu's echo and mysterious sighs...are those even sighs?

You: H-hey! Can someone hear us?

We hear something else now, the noise the rolling wheels

Bandu: What was that?!

Footsteps start resounding in the distance along with...glitching noises?

You: Who are you?!

The sounds are coming closer and closer

You: Reveal yourself!

I feel shivers down my spine and my legs lose stability with every passing second

?: S e n p a i...

A hand holding a bloody knife touches my shoulder. Me and Bandu scream and run forwards until we hit the wall

You: What the heck was that?! Who were they?!

Bandu: I don't kno-

?: WE'RE FRIENDS 'TIL THE END!

Something hugs Bandu's leg

Bandu: GET OFF! GET OFF!

Bandu starts running around, trying to get rid of the small entity. After some time he stops

Bandu: It...went away?

You: I hope so...

A glitched noise shakes us

You: -!

Bandu: -!

A distorted being approaches us

?: S̷̜̑t̸̞̐o̵̮̐ṕ̷̙ ̵̤̓h̸̘͌e̶̡̛ř̶̩e̴̪̕

We obviously do not listen to its words, we cannot! We're too frightened. Bandu takes my hand and starts sprinting to the left, I follow him

?: Ņ̵̢̧͔̱̯͖̏̓̔͐̋̅͜͠͝O̸̮͓̖̦͍͔͉̣̻̔͐͑̑̚͠Ȯ̶̢̢̦̝͍͂̏O̴̭̯͓̤̤͊̎̾̿̏̒̉O̶͙̫̳͐̏̓̃̉̈́͜͝Ő̴͔͇̬̘̝Ǫ̸̟̹̠̈͋̾̓̒͐̚͘͘ͅO̶̧̲̫̙̣̰̐̂͋̈́͘O̶̡̢͔͇̟͖̠̓͜O̴̡̱͍͛̂̒͊̃͝O̷̢̲̪̩̭̠̙̒̊ͅ!̴̯̮̠̗͕̱͚̺̈͑̏̇

The being throws an ear-shattering scream and we fall on the floor due to our ears hurting

Bandu: I'll be deaf...

You: That's not the main problem!

Three shadows start walking towards us

You: We're gonna die!!!

Bandu starts crying

Bandu: Please...

He sobs

Bandu: Spare us!

We hear some giggling and suddenly the lights turn on

You: What the-

We see Dave, Bambi and Expunged standing in front of us. They're dressed as Ayano Aishi, Chucky and a creature I don't know

Bandu: Guys...

Bandu wipes his tears

Bandu: ...is it really you?

Expunged: Yes, bro

Expunged helps him stand up, I do it on my own

Bambi: You should have seen your faces!

Bambi laughs out loud

Dave: I hope we didn't scare you too much

You: No, we were running for our lives just for the lols

I use sarcasm to break down the lingering tension in my nerves

You: How did you manage to pull all of this up?

Dave: We arranged a fog machine and some blue-green light bulbs here and there. The sighing sounds were voice acted by us and reproduced on a computer

Dave then points to a computer carefully sitting on the bottom shelf of the closet. Its screen has a very low luminosity

You: What about your wheelchair? It used to make motor noises...

Dave: I'm using a different one

You: Oh

Dave: I had to make sure to not be recognisable and ruin everything...

He averts his eyes as usual

Expunged: We acted on a script wrote by me. I made it simple because we're no actors and the lines are references of the characters we're dressed as

You: Yeah but, uhm...

I point at Expunged's body which is glitching and in a state of no ending deformation

Expunged: Don't worry about that, it's part of my costume

You: Which is?

Expunged: A-90!

He smiles from ear to ear. I'm not gonna ask how he made it or found it...is it even possible?

Bambi: While I did the most important part

Bambi walks towards a long table formed by desks. There's a purple cover on it that prevents us to see what's on it

Bambi: Aaaand voilà!

He quickly removes the cover

Bandu: Woah!

There are a lot of treats on the table. Candies, cookies, cupcakes, bubble gums and so on

Bambi: There's no trick without treat!

Bandu: Oh my god!!! Is this real?! Did my previous nightmare become a dream?!

Bambi: As real as we are!

Bandu starts stuffing himself with candies

Bambi: Hey, leave some for us!

Expunged: Not too many or else you'll go in a sugar rush

We all start enjoying the treats together though someone is missing. I see Dave on a corner of the room. I reach for him

You: Why don't you eat some sweets? You don't like them?

Dave: It's that...I don't know if it's a good idea. It seems kind of...childish

You: You don't have to be ashamed. I mean, look at us! We're all 18 years old yet we're hunched on that table hoarding all the sugar we possibly eat. Bandu is literally the one who's like "Ooga booga caveman noises for deez candeez"

Dave: ...

You: There isn't a specific age to have candies once in a while, you just enjoy them and stop. There is a specific age to stop though and it's when you're old because your health becomes fragile. But as long as we're far from that, sweets are fine

Dave: I...suppose they are

You: C'mon, we can't let the others take everything. What do you think?

Dave stays in silence for a couple of seconds

Dave: Ok, I'll join

You: Good!

I push Dave's wheelchair towards the big table

Bambi: Where were you?

You: We discussed about a thing. Did you wait for us?

Bambi: Of course...not!

You: Asshole...

Bandu: Y/N, no swearing!

Bandu says while having his mouth full of treats

Bambi: Love ya too, my friend!

Bambi sticks his tongue out

I can't help but giggle a bit and so does Dave

Expunged: We should do this next year too

You: We shouldn't...we MUST! But let's scare someone else, ok?

Expunged: We'll take turns, but right now...

He grabs a Jack-o'-lantern lollipop and raises it

Expunged: Happy Halloween!

We all grab one and return the augury then we shove them in our mouths. It's a nice way to make a toast if you don't have champagne

Author note
This book isn't dead, it's just slowed down for obvious reasons so don't worry, I'll keep updating it.
Happy Halloween guys and remember

Be different and be yourself