Bridget sat in her room thinking about how she was gonna convince Claire to go to the horror fest. There were sooo many benefits from a good thrill, but how could she convince Claire! Her main argument to anyone who refused was usually something along the lines of "bruh you need more excitement in your life", but that wouldn't work with Claire as they were going on a new adventure practically everyday.

After some thought, Bridget thought of a completely terrible plan, but why not? She pulled out her phone and texted Claire asking if she was free that weekend, and she was. Yesssssss!!!!

Now she had to ask, well tell, Xav and then the rest of the group.

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"Oh hey Bri!" Xavier answered the door.

"Hi! You know that horror fest that I pointed out last night?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, we're going tomorrow, so are you free?"

"Yeah, I'm free!" he assured excitedly.

"Great! Do you wanna hang out right now?"

"Ah I'm sorry Bri," Xavier sighed, reaching out to give her a hug, "My dad's coming over and we're having family dinner to talk about who knows what. It can't be something good; my parents can't stand each other anymore."

"Oh, I'm sorry Xav." Bridget comforted. She knew he was having a really hard time since his parents got divorced. And she knew it was bad. Countless times she had been hanging out with him up in his room, she would hear the front door to the house slam open and his father would storm in yelling at his mom. She heard him say really really terrible things and it made sense to her that Xav would be shattered by it, and Taylor, Xav's younger brother, was too. Who wouldn't be when their own father is saying things like "well maybe we would've worked out if you had just aborted Xavier and Taylor" or "you wanna tell me why Taylor complained when I wouldn't get him a $60 watch? you gotta teach that kid that he's gotta chill. God you're making him a brat with your awful parenting!" ? She'd look back to Xavier and the most dreadful look would come over his eyes, and then he'd just break down crying. Bridget would hold him tightly, the steady flow of tears soaking her shirt.

"Hey Xav, do you wanna walk and talk about it till your dinner is ready?"

"I can't. I'm sorry, it'll be ready any minute now. But I'll see you tomorrow! I love you, Bri." Xavier finished with a warm smile.

"I love you too," Bridget cooed, "See ya' tomorrow!"

Bridget was a little mad that she didn't get there sooner. If she had, Xavier wouldn't have had to eat dinner right then, and she could've taken him on the walk so that he could talk it out and go into dinner more prepared. Gosh, she hated it when she couldn't help Xavier or her friends through something with all they did for her. She was beyond grateful to them and there really was nothing she could to to even begin to express that. All she could do was try and so in every way possible, whenever they needed her, she was there.

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"Hey Bri! What's up?" Asher answered the door, Joey Nelson with him.

Joey was a tall boy in her class and he had light brown curly hair. His eyes were hazel-green and he had freckles dotting his whole face.

"You know the horror fest I pointed out last night?"

"Uh-huh."

"Claire, Xavier, Ally, Tayrn, Jane, Caroline, Veni, and I are all going tomorrow night. Well, I hope. I haven't asked everyone yet. You wanna come? Joey can come too if he wants." She added quickly.

"Cool!" Asher replied, "I'll be there. Joey?"

"Sure." he agreed.

"Kk, Xav and I will pick you up here tomorrow at 7:00."

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Bridget headed home and texted Ally, Tayrn, Jane, Caroline, and Raven their invitations. Everyone said yes, and Raven asked to bring a friend named Amaia.

Bridget also texted an invite to one of her other friends from school, Charlotte, because just last week Charlotte had gotten into some friend drama and hadn't gone out in a while. Charlotte said yes.

So in total the group will be 11 people and we'll need two cars. So Xavier will seat five of us and then Charlotte has a minivan and her license so she can seat 7. Bridget thought, planning out the transportation in her head.

She was super excited!! Bridget had never been to a horror fest with anyone except for her dad, and he made her feel safe, so this was gonna be a new thrill. An awesome thrill. She was most excited to see her friends crumple down in fear, and quite frankly herself. That was one of her favorite parts of whacked jokes and horror movies: other people's reactions.

Well, not her sister's reactions. Every time Bridget made a dark joke, she got slapped twice by her sister. Hard. Molly was not a fan of dark humor.

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Bridget spent the night binging Queer Eye while eating pretzels, as usual. The show was so sweet, and she cried from cuteness overload pretty much every episode. She would often stay up till her eyes started watering with tiredness, which was usually around 3:30am, and then fell asleep within two minutes of closing her eyes.

Most nights she didn't remember any of her dreams, but when she did, they were usually of her hugging Mitch. His voice was so angelic, and he was so adorable. It was hard for her to think of anything else.

...quick author's note...bros I be jamming to Pentatonix and Superfruit right now lmao I love Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying and Kevin Olusola and Matt Sallee and Kirstin Maldonado lol okay back to SBT...quick author's note...

And her nightmares, oh boy. One of her reoccurring ones was where this group of people with chainsaws locked her and her dad in a barn, and then decapitated her dad in front of her. And another where her sister threw her down a set of stairs and then cut her open till she bled out. And don't even get me started on her dreams where she tried to run from the killer, but then her body would be running, but be lagged and not going anywhere. It felt like a million bricks were tied down on her.

Her Sunday went by pretty quick too, with Bridget binging more Queer Eye and The Fosters. At 6:00 that night, an alarm on Bridget's phone went off and she walked over to Xavier's house.

They hung out playing video games until 6:40 and then picked everyone up, except for Claire, to go to the horror fest.

After everyone was in the two cars, Claire to be with Asher, Joey, Xavier, and Bri in one car, and Raven, Amaia, Tayrn, Jane, Caroline, Ally, and Charlotte in the other, they headed to Claire's house to pick her up.

Bridget walked up to Claire's house alone and greeted her at the front door.

"Hey Claire! You said you were free and the group is going somewhere tonight, so you coming?"

"Uh, sure," Claire laughed, "Where?"

"I know it's probably too soon to say this after last night, but you'll see." Bridget giggled a little hesitantly.

"I'm only doing this because it was so fun last time," Claire declared, "Now let's go!"

They got in the car, and Xavier pulled away, Charlotte with the rest of them after him.

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that's all!! lol sorry this was kind of a filler chapter :/ hope you enjoyed anyway!

question : do you like horror stuff?

my answer : bruh it's my life lmao I loveeeeeee it

oki lol that was a pretty short author's note, but I'm done now lolll. goodnight/morning and have an amazing day/night!! Love youuu all :) <33

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