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     It was no secret that there was something different about me, but it wasn't until my mom booked a pink bunny for my seventeenth birthday dinner as entertainment that I actually acknowledged it.

       "What the hell?" I heard Kristin Hunter whisper to my best friend Reese who was sitting, legs crossed across from her picking at her nails.

     I threw my head into my hands in embarrassment as the rabbit carrying around a basket full of colored aluminum balls started greeting people at the table - starting with Mason Fisher who sat at the opposite end of the long table, we'd finally used. Honestly he looked kind of frightened at first sight, and I couldn't tell if it was because he was weirded out or if he was actually scared of people in costumes - it was okay I'd be was. Honest.

    My mom stood by the patio door on her phone as my reputation went down the drain, every since she got the promotion at work I feel as if I don't even exist in her world anymore or I'm now just a client of hers, fighting to make an appointment with my own mother. I called out to her but I don't think she heard me and as the costumed mutant inched closer my shoulders began to tense as I became angrier. My mom pressed the end button on her phone and I imagined her pocketing it.

        "I'll be right back." I said, excusing myself from the table leaving behind a group hearty snickers and discomforting comments. I grinned a no-teeth grin,  uneasily.

          I whined, "I'm 17 years old and you book a pink bunny as entertainment, what happened to the band?" I asked.

      " It was last minute, Syd, you know that!" She hissed, her eyes never meeting mine from the phone still grasped in her manicured hands.

       "I've been planning this for weeks!" I yelled, probably a little to loud because before I knew it Reese was standing beside me.

      "You said things would be different this time." I mumbled under my breathe. I looked up at my mom as she focused on the Blackberry only.

        Reese tapped on my shoulder, "your friend wants to take a picture with the birthday girl." She joked with a smile.

       I grinned annoyingly, yet I complied.

        The basic iPhone ringtone sounded and my mom called out running in through the patio door,"I'll make it up to you, Syd, I promise!"

Reese locked arms with me and pulled me back over to the group. "He's actually really nice, I have a strong feeling that y'all have a strong bond." Snickers.

   "Haha very funny." I couldn't help but laugh a little Reese knew how to make something good out of a shitty situation and this was definitely a shitty situation. I really couldn't ask for a better best friend, we've known each other since second grade and even though we were separated in middle school, we reunited, we always found a way back to each other.

    I looked at her and all the other people who had came to celebrate my big day, I wasn't fifteen anymore wishing I was sixteen so I could get my drivers licenses or sixteen wishing I had a little more freedom.

    I was, now, seventeen, the perfect age.

    Even though having a Easter bunny at my backyard dinner is completely embarrassing everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. There were still laughters and bright smiles that kept everything alive, the balloons were still inflated, and the music was still loud. There's was an equilibrium, and then the bunny.

When we finally made it over to the bunny and he or she was done taking videos on snapchat with the guests it stopped and stared at me for a second. I froze in place but my eyes wondered.

  The bunny didn't speak and I didn't speak.

   After about a minute of compete silence between us to, the bunny arm extended and wrapped around my waist pulling me closer to it, "Smile." The scrappy voice croaked out.

   Although the thing in costumed had spoke I couldn't make out if it was a girl or boy. I smiled a awkward smile as Reese took the picture.

"Okay. Okay. Now Sydney and I." Reese handed her phone to the bunny and it nearly knocked me over grabbing her phone.

Reese and I did our signature Disney princesses pose, but I couldn't focus on my smile because for some strange reason I felt as if the bunny was staring at me, the eyes pouring into my soul and I couldn't breathe, and I didn't know if I smiled in the picture.

Click. Click. Click. The bunny continued to take pictures as Reese constantly changed poses and with ever snap of the camera I felt more and more nauseous, the bunny looking more and more demonic.

"That's enough!" I finally I called out. I felt as if I was suffocating in the yard full of oxygen, like the world was closing in and was shriveling down to a dot with me in the center.

The bunny's head tilted.

"Are you okay?" Mason and Reese asked in unison.

Inside I know I was happy that he was checking on me, I had wanted nothing more since he came to Homewood, for him to notice me, to like me, to maybe even kiss me. Although, I have had a lot of boyfriends but I'll admit that there's never been one that I've actually had a crush on from the start,  but with Mason it was different, I remember the first thing he said to me when he moved in down the street - "Where's the closest batting cages?" He'd asked.

But at this moment that's not what I wanted, what I wanted was to be far, far away from this thing portrayed as a fluffy, friendly bunny. I was scared.

I laughed, hysterically trying to get everyone to forget about what just happened. Reese went along with it but I could see from the corner of my eye the worry in her brown eyes that even glowed in the moonlight.

The bunny gestured Reese's phone to her and then held up his pointer finger to me, I looked at Reese and she looked back at me, confused.

"What?" I asked, nervously?

One more picture. He said without using words. I shook my head, no, nervously.

"Cmon, Syd, it's your birthday. He came here for you" Jordan cheered out of no where. That's what I get for inviting a cheerleader.

  At this point, the bunny was completely frightening to me, I couldn't imagine a smile under the mask, hands under the gloves, feet under the socks, nothing. Again, he pulled me towards him this time with more force than the last and at that moment the wind blew and the trees started to whistle. We didn't have any patio bulbs, so the light only came from the cell phones of my friends and the light that leaked out of the glass door that entered my house.

"See you, Syd!" Some of the girls yelled slapping my back while leaving through the back fence.

  The bunny's grip on me was tight so while my waist was in lock, my head was the only thing allowed for movement. I wanted to pull away but i couldn't stop coming up with all the horrific things the man in the costume would do to me if I tried to move. "Hurry up," I mouthed to Reese.

   I felt the heat of the body from inside of the costume or the spirit that possessed it, whichever. My body instantly locked up when I felt the bunny's fat hand slide up and down my back - again it was almost as if I was gasping for air. So uncomfortable, so weird, I could hardly explain what was going on right at this very moment all I remember from that point on was that I was awake and then, I was seeing darkness.

"Sydney?!"