*Yeah! I managed to make a Halloween special on time and it's even cooler that it gets to be posted on Halloween too! What are the chances that Halloween falls on a Tuesday and that ends up being this novel's update day? OK, enjoy the special!*
*This is a hypothetical future, it has nothing to do with the story's main storyline.*
Halloween Special
Unknown pov
Of course Halloween's this weekend, how could I not know? Usually, I don't care about Halloween and I only it'd Halloween thanks to people dressing up and doing Halloween festivities. Oh, also those stupid scary ads, are they supposed to be scary?
I don't get the hype of Halloween. It's just a day for kids where they eat candies and dress up as something else. It isn't for kids, yet why does my girlfriend so badly want to celebrate Halloween?
I mean I'm not surprised, she usually gets hyped for stupidies like this.
I don't even want to talk about what she did last year when we still shared dorms. Gosh, she was horrible and still is. Okay, she's not that bad or else she wouldn't be my girlfriend, my first girlfriend to be exact. I wouldn't bother associating myself with the likes of her, that was last year, not anymore the case but she still pisses me off sometimes.
Regardless, I thought this year she would be less hyped up about Halloween but no, gosh was I wrong. It seems to be worse now that we are dating.
And to make matters worse, Halloween falls on a Saturday, so during the weekend. So, it's no surprise that everyone is having stupid Halloween parties and making lots of noise in the dorms. Ugh, I already dread that. Don't they know some want to sleep and study?
Anyway, after my two classes this morning, I was hoping I could advance on my project but no, my plans were ruined. My girlfriend decided to make a surprise visit to the University and pick me up.
That is one thing I had to get used to since dating her, getting used to my plans being ruined all the time. I was not expecting to see her, I guess her class ended early or something.
"Hey, girlfriend." She smirks upon seeing me and her open gesture in public makes me uncomfortable as others outside are looking at us.
"Don't say it so openly, others could hear you know?"
"Oh come on, you're not still sacred? Everyone knows already about us."
"True but it doesn't mean I like that you do open gestures in public."
"Aw, but I love showcasing you're my girlfriend." She pouts.
"I know but just not here."
"Ok, but to make up for it, you'll let me kiss you in the car."
"I guess that's fair."
"Good, I think you realized why I'm here, right?"
"Yes, you decided to randomly pick me up, as usual. You sure like to show off your new car."
"What? She's so pretty! I finally get to have my own car!" I chuckle at the ridiculousness.
"Yeah, yeah but how come you're here? Your class ended early?"
"Nah, it got cancelled."
"Cancelled, that is rare."
"I know but now I get to be with you!" She says happily. She really does like me a lot.
"You could've waited for this weekend though."
"Maybe but I'm not taking opportunities for granted."
"Yeah, we should now."
"Yeah, I just can't wait to kiss you!" She yells happily and others look at us strangely.
"Do you have to be this loud?"
"Yeah, sorry, couldn't help it." She smiles apologetically.
We walk side by side to the parking lot. We could hold hands but I don't like it when we do so in public, especially on the University campus, it's bad for my reputation.
Eventually, after going through cars in the parking lot, we find hers,
"I couldn't park closer, it's so packed in here."
"I can see that."
We get in her car. Her behind the wheel and me on the passenger side. Before she starts the car, she steals a kiss from me. She smiles and I guess I end up smiling too. Then, she started the car and we left the parking lot.
"Hey, since it's Halloween this weekend, I was thinking we could do something, you know?"
"No, I can't. You know I have to study for the upcoming exams and work on my project."
"Oh come on, you can take a break for just a day, right? Overworking yourself is not a good thing either."
"I know but that project is worth 25% of my grade."
"Gosh, I guess there's no way you'll say yes, huh?"
"Alex, we literally celebrated your birthday last weekend, we don't need to celebrate again."
"But it's Halloween...I was hoping that for once it could be just the two of us or something?"
"No, I already told you, I can't."
"Fine, it's not like you'd agreed anyway."
And that ends our conversation.
———————
Even if Alex was hiding her discontentment over my refusal to celebrate Halloween with her, I could tell it bothered her.
It's not like me to feel bad but seeing her so hopeful to celebrate Halloween with me, makes
me feel guilty. I don't care about Halloween usually but she does.
It's like I feel guilty because it would be the first time we would spend Halloween together if we didn't count last year.
I know it's unlike me but I feel like I should surprise her or something. She always surprises me but I never return the favour, maybe I should do something.
So yeah, I want to do something to surprise her but I don't know what. I'm not good with those types of things, that's what Alex is good at.
I need some ideas and instantly someone comes to mind, Jonathan. Of course, he's my buddy for everything. He has experiences unlike me, I'm sure he could me with this. I guess I'll call him.
———————-
Turns out Jonathan decided that this was such a big matter that he's coming to my dorm. If I didn't know better I would think it's weird that he's so eager to come to my dorm on a Friday night but we are both dating and besides he's dating a guy and I'm dating Alex. Whatever Jonathan and I had is all in the past, there's no longer anything there.
"Seriously, I can't believe you finally decided to take a break from studying!" He says in disbelief.
"It's only for a day and besides you study as much as me."
"Not true but okay, if you say so. So what's the plan."
"I just want to scare her off."
"Wow, I'm finding it hard to believe but how you don't even have a plan? Gosh, who are you? Are you even still Haneul?" That pisses me off.
"I'm still myself, it's just for a day. I need to pay back the favour."
"Oh yes, you feel indebted to her. She's your girlfriend! She's not money." Jonathan says in disbelief.
"Are you on to help me or not?" I cut him off.
"Yes, yes. So how do you want to scare her off?"
"I don't know, I just want to surprise her. I want her to not expect that at all."
"Wow, ok that's a huge request. When do you plan to do that?"
"Tomorrow, she has a work shift on Saturday night and I work during the day."
"Mm ok, let me think of something."
I wait for a solid few minutes before Jonathan comes up with something.
"That's it! I have the idea!" He suddenly says confident.
"What? You finally came up with something?"
"You're the one that asked me for this." He says annoyed.
"Yeah, I know. What is your plan?"
"How about you pretend you died?"
"What? How could I do that?"
Does it mean I have to pretend I went M.I.A? Like went off the planet? I mean I wouldn't mind being disconnected from social media for a few days.
"Like instead of just ignoring her for a few days, which I'm sure you're thinking right now, we can do the real thing." He knows me too much.
"What real thing?"
"We actually fake a murder scene, as if you got killed."
"That would be too predictable."
"No, hear me out, I could pour fake blood on you and put a knife next to you."
"Gosh, that's cruel."
"Hey, you're the one that wanted to scare her off."
"Ok, where would that be?"
"At her apartment? She's not planning anything for that night, is she?"
"None that I know of."
"Good, do you have a spare key to her apartment?"
"What, no? Why would I have that?"
"Maybe Alex offered you a key or something? Like I heard her friend Carla has a spare key."
"Well, she did offer me a spare key but I refused."
"What?! Why?!"
"Because you should never share your key like that?"
"She's your girlfriend, I'm pretty sure she can trust you."
"I don't even go to her place often."
"Fine, so I guess her apartment is out of the question, unless...we get the spare key from Carla!"
"And how would you do that?"
"Hey, I could contact her and I'm sure she would be willing to help with this. She loves pranks like these."
"I think that's crazy but do as you'd like."
"Ok, so like tomorrow after we get the key, I could help you fake your death. To make it more dramatic, you could fake your death in her room."
"You think Alex would buy that?"
"I mean knowing her probably but to make it more convincing, we could make the atmosphere more romantic and make sure your shoes are in front of the door."
"Wow, you really are good with the plans. It's such a cruel idea, do you think she'll like it?"
"Depends on her but with how often you tell me she has crazy ideas and she did pranks on you in the past probably."
"Now I'm getting back at her, not returning the favour."
"I mean, you are returning the favour by doing a prank on her too."
"I guess so, I guess we're doing this?"
"That's if you're really on board for the idea."
"I am, it better work well."
Jonathan's plan is cruel but in a way, Alex deserves it. She asked for Halloween, so I'll give her Halloween.
———————-
As Jonathan thought, he easily got to borrow the spare key from Clara. She agreed quite easily.
Now Jonathan and I are getting into Alex's apartment. I feel bad for doing this, even more, so it's not really legal but it's just for today. It's Alex, I'm sure she won't mind.
We get in and we start putting the plan in motion.
Alex finishes her shift at 10 p.m., so she'll be here close to 11 p.m. thanks to the big city.
So, Jonathan and I change things to make it more romantic and then it's time to fake my death.
I lay lying on the floor and Jonathan tries to make my death scene as realistic as possible.
As he finishes the touches, he puts the knives not far from the chosen fake wound, my heart.
Pretending to be dead won't be difficult for me as I'm good at making cold and natural faces.
Then, Jonathan leaves. By then, it's 10:40 p.m. Good, Alex should be here any minute now.
I wait for a bit until I hear the sound of the door being unlocked.
"Huh, why are there shoes there? Did I forget to take off my shoes or something? Eh, I guess I did."
Wow, that was quite dumb. How could she not know it's my shoes? And besides, why is she talking out loud? You know what? This is advantageous in this case.
"Huh, why are there candles lit up here? I didn't do that? Wait...Is Carla here? If so why would she do that?" Wow, she says everything out loud, how come I never noticed that before?
"Carla?! Are you here?!" She yells but no response.
"Huh, I guess she crashed in my bed drunk. She's not on the couch."
I suddenly hear steps coming closer to the room and indeed, she opens the door.
"Oh, she's not there...Wait, Haneul?! What are you doing here?!" She comes to me on the floor.
"Haneul! Why are you covered in blood?! Please tell me you didn't actually...?!" She starts shaking me violently but I don't move an inch.
"Haneul please don't do this to me! Please tell me this is a joke!" She continues shaking me but I don't move. Then she starts crying.
"Haneul...please don't die. Hold on to me, I will call the ambulance. You can't die on me, why did you come here?! Why did you have to do this?!" She says crying in despair.
Now I'm starting to feel bad...
Then she hugs me,
"Haneul...if only I knew you were struggling..." Wow...she really believes I died.
I have to put an end to this.
So I slowly start breathing and open my eyes.
"Haneul! You're alive!" She says in huge relief.
"Ugh..." I pretend to be hurt as I try to move.
"Hold on, I'll help you take it off! Don't move!"
As she tries to take it off, she realizes that the knife must be fake.
"Wait, this is isn't a real knife, then how...Haneul!" She yells and shakes me.
"What...?"
"I can't believe this! This is all fake, right!?" I
can't lie anymore, can I?
"Happy Halloween." I smile.
"Haneul! Omg! I can't believe this! I really thought you died!"
She kisses me in relief and then proceeds to punch me repeatedly. After a while it really starts to hurt, she really has a good punch.
"Ok, stop, I get it. It was cruel of me."
"You really planned all this? I thought you didn't care about Halloween. Wait, how'd you get in here?"
"Well...I changed my mind, I wanted to surprise you."
"But you didn't have to pretend you were dead!" She says agitated and pissed at me.
"It wasn't cool of me but it worked, right?"
"Yeah...you really surprised me...I didn't expect this at all...This is so unlike you...Um..."
"Yeah, I know but I wanted to return the favour."
"But did you really had to go at such length?"
"I could've just scared you a little but it was all Jonathan, he gave me the idea."
"That guy's crazy! But I can't believe you dared to do such a thing!"
"I can't believe it myself either."
"You really scared me, never do that again."
"I won't I promise, it was only for Halloween."
"Even if that wasn't cool of you, I can't lie and say this plan was a master plan. If I believed it, then others probably would too."
"It sounded absurd when Jonathan proposed it but I'm glad you liked it."
"Hey! I didn't say I liked the prank!" Alex argues.
"But you still find it cool and hot that I did this?" I surprise myself and it surprises her too.
"Yeah...somehow you look hot even in fake blood," Alex says and I blush a bit.
"That is odd to say but ok."
"You might have gotten away with it but next time, I'm getting back at you!" Alex says confidently.
"Sure try that."
"So...how'd you get in?"
"It's a long story..."
"Shoot me, I have all night."
And I explained the entire plan and how it worked.
"Wow, that little sh*t, she really handed her spare key like that! Next time if you want to
come here, please say so. I can lend you a key."
"No, it was just a special reason. I have no reason to come here."
"Of course, you do, me!"
"Yes, you but not by myself."
"Ok, fine but now that you're here, do you intend to stay the night?"
"Not really, I was planning to leave now."
"Actually no, do you want to sleep here?" Alex proposes.
That is dangerous territory but for some reason, I can't bring myself to say no.
"Yeah, I could stay here for the night as long as I come back to the dorms in the morning hours."
"Ok, deal!"
We kiss and the rest of the night is history.
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