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 Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:28 pm
"Oh...no no idea, none at all." Draconia veeeery carefully backed towards the hole. "Hexcuse me, please."
She stepped through the hole and started dusting Manny off. Manny shook his head and grinned.
"BEST. DANCE. EVERRRRR."
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:18 pm
With Mary's help, Marceline stepped through the mirror in the ghouls' bathroom, to the nonplussed stares of several monsters. She chuckled nervously as she shimmied off the sink, planting her gilded heels firmly on the floor, and skittered out of there.
She was halfway to the dancefloor when she realized she'd had a piece of newspaper stuck to her shoe. Tearing it off, she glanced at the article on the front page... Quote: LOVE AT FIRST FRIGHT
by Iris Clops, staff
Tombcoming Scream Queen and Scream King are a perfectly imperfect match
Marceline's stomach turned, her bony fingers clenching around the newspaper page. This isn't what it looks like, she told herself. They have to dance together... it's part of being voted King and Queen... Then Jewels leaned in and whispered something to Rory. Something seemed wrong here and she couldn't take what she was seeing anymore. She shoved herself through the crowd, finding an empty table to sit at and buried her face in her hands.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:56 am
Ronan nodded again. "t.. thank you Ascreama." He waved as she left and made his way through the crowd searching for Meme.
After several minutes of no luck, he found a quieter place to settle and took out his phone.
He agonised over what more to write, but couldn't think of anything. So he pressed send and waited, hoping she'd reply.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:02 am
"Yeah I can see that being... a bit of a shift." He shrugged. "You should get out there though, only way you're gonna meet people is by talking to them right? Otherwise it'll be a pretty lonely year lurking in dark corners, watching unlife go by without you."
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:07 am
Meme chatted to the cyclops for a while, killing as much time as she could before she had to inevitably head back to Ronan.
"So I have to ask, who are you avoiding?" The one-eyed-ghoul asked eventually, leaning against a wall.
"I... It's bloody stupid really. One of my friends just admitted they have.. romantic feelings for me. And I freaked out and left." Meme admitted whilst flopping her arms about dramatically, and the cyclops cringed.
"That bad?" She looked down in shame.
There was a loud boom that shook the walls ever so slightly and the ghouls were quiet for a second. "Well, sounds like somebody is having fun outside.. Hopefully it's not the Mad Science corridor blowing up again!"The ghouls stared wide eyed and resumed the conversation.
"Honestly, it seems that you do have feelings for him," The cyclops inspected her golden claw polish as she spoke "If you weren't interested, you probably would have just told him so." She looked up and smiled at the clown, "Or punched him?"
Meme laughed and nodded, "I suppose, when you put it like tha-"
BuzzBuzz
She pulled her vibrating phone out of her jacket pocket and groaned, sliding it back without answering. "That's him.. Guess I should get back out there.. Can't avoid it forever." She said with a chuckle and headed towards the music.
"Oh hey! Why are you hiding in here?" The clown spun around to ask and the cyclops laughed, "I got distracted by all the shiny stuff in there and had to take a break. 'Was giving me a bit of a gold-rush."
Meme smiled and found her way back into the crowd. After searching for a while, several times she went back to the table there were sat, with no success she stood and frowned in the middle of the dance floor. "I hope he hasn't left.." She said aloud and pulled out her phone to send a quick hext in response.
"Wer R U?!1 xox"
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:24 am
He was also still searching, because the idea that he should stay in one place hadn't actually occurred to him. Also he'd decided to get away from Manny and Chase who seem to have decided that smashing things was a great idea.
He looked around for a landmark.
He wasn't at this point even sure he could remember where the table they'd been sat at was. Oops. There were just too many monsters and too much sparkle everywhere.
He made his way toward the one thing he could find, the refreshments table and past a lone, green haired figure who looked like she was sobbing.
"Marceline?" he paused, unsure what to do. Did he stop and talk to the ghoul who looked so upset, or did he rush to meet Meme? Dilemma!
He couldn't just ignore the ghoul... could he?
No, he had to ask.
"a.. are you alright?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:31 am
Vinnie danced alone as Holt Hyde dropped the beat; she didn't want to let on that she was upset. Perry had gone MIA on her some time before the Tombcoming winners had their dance... and just after Vinnie decided to shorten the gap between them while they danced. It was entirely impossible that she could have misread his signals, she decided. He wouldn't have been smiling at her the way he was if he wasn't attracted to her... so was she just being too forward, and he was being a were-chicken? That would figure, she thought; were-chickens seem to be her type...
She sashayed over to the snack table, her dress shifting in strange ways under the pulsing strobe lights, and grabbed herself a cup of punch.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:16 am
Meme checked her phone after it buzzed again and she nodded, determined to explain to Ronan. She shifted through the crowd, squeezing her shoulders in to pass between students and walking around those who were dancing.
She honked her nose a few times to those monsters who purposely ignored her "excuse me's and "coming through"s.
At one point she accidentally got caught up in a dance and had to duck out of the arms of a mummy who pulled her in to tangoo. "Woah there lover boy! keep those hands under wraps or I'll turn you into a pile of bandages and powder!" She pointed at him angrily and turned on her pointy black heels. How large was this dance-floor!
Eventually she stumbled out of the crowd and propped herself up on the refreshments table. She stood up and clicked her back.
"Ugh, that creep got me all twisted up." She righted her clothes and waited for Ronan to arrive.
Vinnie sashayed over to the table and Meme's eyes opened wider. "Wowza, you're smoking tonight!" She winked at the tentacled ghoul and tipped her hat.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:47 am
Ronan Aalto "Marceline?" he paused, unsure what to do. Did he stop and talk to the ghoul who looked so upset, or did he rush to meet Meme? Dilemma! He couldn't just ignore the ghoul... could he? No, he had to ask. "a.. are you alright?" "Let me ask you som'thin, Ronan..." Marceline flattened the leaflet on the table and pressed her palm into the wrinkles. "Tell me I ain't crazy. Rory ain't the type'a boo who would two-time a ghoul, right? I mean, he did bring me home to meet his mother, an' all. But who's to say he didn't do what with Jewels? Oh, caskets, I can't even look at him right now!" Her head slumped back into her hands with a groan.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:59 am
Ronan frowned a little, remembering Jewel's freakout from earlier.
"She was having a panic attack about it earlier. Ok I admit, I couldn't understand half of what she was saying." Could anyone understand that ghoul when she went into meltdown? It wasn't even English to his ear. "but.. she seemed very upset. " He shrugged as he tried to remember what had happened. "She said something about... making sure you didn't see?"
She was crying, and he fished around for his handkerchief, which actually wasn't that goo covered after all. Seems Ascreama's gloves were doing at least some of their job after all.
"Um.. here?" He offered the mostly not goopy handkercheif, explaining "Ascreama grabbed me earlier."
He got the feeling he wasn't helping.
"Maybe.. you need to speak to him?" Speaking of which, he looked up and tried to spot the brightly coloured clown ghoul. "Talking through things is supposed to help."
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:05 am
"Woaaah... " He couldn't help but exclaim as Chase, Devlyn and Manny all went charging off. He winced a little at the collision and burst into laughter.
"If only he could tackle like that during game time."
He snickered, for the time being totally distracted from the important job of watching out for Vinnie.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:08 am
"Oh. My. GHOUL. This dance is so............BORING!" Atomica stifled an electronic representation of a yawn. Since Gryff hadn't won Tombcoming Queen OR King, inexplicably, there really hadn't been any reason for her, Lin or Gryff to come to Tombcoming, but they'd all shown up anyway. When they'd heard the rumor Catty Noir might be performing, Atomica was sure that would be the straw that broke the werecamel's back and Gryff would insist they sit at home and listen to Eartha Werekit records, but instead he'd insisted they attend.
"Lin, you should fetch Gryff some-Lin?" Atomica looked around, but her tiny cohort was gone. Probably off to try to entice the werecat twins into a dance...like he did at every single school function they went to. It was amazing how he was impervious to constantly being shot down.
Well....FINE! It was time for somemonster to flip the script on this boring old dance anyways.
"HEXCUSE ME! HEXCUSE ME!" Atomica shouted as she elbowed her way past the dance floor and climbed up on the stage. The music screeched to a halt and Catty Noir stopped singing mid-note. She'd never had another monster just stomp up on stage while she was performing before! That was the disadvantage of not having bounce-orks at the school.
"Yeah, hello, it's me, your friendly neighborhood automaton!" Atomica waved and grabbed the mic from Catty. "Thanks. Go ahead and have a seat, dear, you've earned your break. It's time for ATOMICA AND THE REST IN PEACE to have a shot at the spotlight! Come on, ghouls!"
Catty shrugged. She didn't mind sharing the spotlight. Atomica pointed at the members of her summer break backup band.
"Melody Nocturna! Marceline LaGhede! Vanissha! ....anyone else I forgot! GET UP ON STAGE!"
There were instruments up there, weren't there? Why not use them?!
"And the rest of you out there...dancing with the same monster you always dance with! That's so DULL! This next song is officially 'SWAP PARTNERS' time! Do you hear me, Monster High?!"
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:25 am
Ronan Aalto "She said something about... making sure you didn't see?" "'Making sure I didn't see'?" She blinked at him. "Well, I never..." She glanced through the crowd at Rory, sitting on his throne next to Jewels, idly chatting away over the din of Holt's mixing... Jewels, the Tombcoming Queen, she who made this entire dance happen... how could she compete with that?Atomica Servo "Melody Nocturna! Marceline LaGhede! Vanissha! ....anyone else I forgot! GET UP ON STAGE!"
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:31 am
Ronan just shrugged and put the handkerchief away again, waving as Marceline rushed off. Well, she seemed to have cheered up.
He headed toward the refreshments table and spotted Meme.
"Sorry, Marceline was crying. She's better now... I think."
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:42 am
With Atomica's announcement, Kai looked up from his position, which was on the dance floor with his arms around Demona's waist and her chin resting on his shoulder. They'd been dancing through nearly every song. Kai smirked."Well, I guess it's only fair I share you with someone else...but only for a little bit, okay?" Kai looked around as the students were reshuffling themselves. Draconia was dancing with Heath Burns and Manny Taur was cutting a rug with Iris Clops. Even Chase was getting in on the action by agreeing to a dance with Devlyn!"I'll see you for the next dance, okay?" Kai pecked Demona on the cheek and looked around to see who he should share a dance with. Everyone seemed to be re-pairing up really fast. Oh man...decisions...decisions...Kai's greatest weakness!
Kai found himself pressed up against the podium where the Tombcoming thrones were situated. He let out a sigh of relief. Saved from making a decision! He turned around and offered a hand to Jewels Underne."Hey. Can I have this dance?"
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