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Originally it had started as a bad joke. Once every often, closer towards the holidays, a certain under-appreciated and underpaid secretary-slash-librarian would do his best to bathe the headmistress in only the most appropriate of limelights. Last year it had been a fake Halloween caroling club (Hellma had to wear ear-plugs for a week afterwards), and this year. Well.



He stared at his handwork, proud of himself. Now to make a fake billboard to stick it in, and the Moonlight Masque - school edition - was properly in effect.

Sadly unbeknownst to him, and at the confusion of some students, there were quite the amount of students waiting on the rooftops for their true love. Hellma just might have gotten some strange glances from staff members as well.

Calder was very proud of himself. After seeing the bulletin board that morning, he started to think of the Moonlight Masque and how fun it would be. This eventually made him wonder if his friends were going. Sure, the monsters would come, but what about the others? He was sure his friend Belladonna would want to enjoy the festivities, but being a first year, who knew if she even had anyone to go out with. Seeing the personal ad, he knew that such a lovely girl would surely be romantic and want a date, and what better way to show how much of a great friend he was than to help her out. Still, he had very little to go on. He only just met her, but that wasn't about to stop him. No way! He had a duty as a buddy to help the witch out in her time of need.

Pulling out a pen and trying to keep it from attacking him, he filled out a card and proudly pinned it to the wall. Oh, he could almost hear her giddy 'Thank you, Calder! You're the best friend a witch could ever have!" right then and there. Pocketing the pin, he checked to see if anything else was written, frowned, and skipped off. At least Belladonna would have plenty of interest.

He walked by the wall, slapped something on it, and kept walking, his face noticeably redder.



He kind of wished he could have looked at some of the others, but he'd been teased enough for one day.

Lucianna meekly walked up to the board, innocent and cute as could be, with the personal sheet she had filled out prior held close her her cracked little chest. Wide pale eyes scanned over the others. There didn't seem to be that many yet. Hopeful, Lucianna got up on her tippy toes and posted hers;



Satisfied, the doll smiled and giggled. "Oh, I hope someone will come play with me!" She then skipped off, rather pleased with herself.

Valentino was still a little surprised that he was putting this ad up. Everyone at the lab had been nagging him to put something up in the personals. After having conceded defeat to his tools, Valen placed his personal alongside the others.

Tess has been flying past the bulletin board far too often for it to be a coincidence. And if her sixth pass-by hadn't made it obvious, the small card she clutched in her hand was a dead giveaway. Truthfully she'd been contemplating on posting her card since she first saw it but she didn't want to seem desperate. Because she wasn't. She was just extremely inexperienced about, well, a great many things thanks to her strict parents and their constant disapproval of anything that caught her fancy. Advertising one's loneliness was certainly not something they would approve, which was why she finally decided to screw her courage to the sticking place and made a beeline for the board to pin her card before she got cold feet. In a manner of speaking.

After a good long talk with her newest (and smallest!) friend, Belladonna decided that she was on a mission. And that mission was called Operation: Chupacabra Love.
You see, Temes (or as she was more affectionately known) Chuppi, was a bit insecure about herself, her eating habits and well... A lot of things. She was getting better what with socializing, but she needed something to really give her a spark! And what better spark than to be loved by someone? With her head full of romantic tendencies, Belladonna spied the personals board and flew off to her room to create a card for Chuppi, written in her loopiest, girliest and most romantic handwriting. She was proud to use a line from one of Chuppi's favorite bands and even more proud when she marched up the board.

Yet when she arrived and already saw Chuppi's card, she was taken back by a moment. Belladonna scrutinized the card, wondering what kind of boy would answer to it. Regardless, she needed a bit more help, so Belladonna happily placed the second card next to the first.



Oh, wait. Chuppi had written by the track field? She couldn't have her potential suitors show up to the wrong place!



Much better! Good thing Belladonna carried that pen with her! Feeling accomplished she sighed happily, thinking of all the cute boys who would court Chuppi. It was of course at this moment that she turned slightly and saw her own picture and the words written next to it. She tried very hard not to scream.

Hmmmmm. These cards were very interesting, if Cricket did say so herself, looking over the board with a sort of half-interest (while one of the cards unfortunately got chewed on by a glowing not-a-centipede, oops) before an almost twisted smile formed across the ghost's 'mirage' of a face (really, if you looked hard enough you could see a skeleton in there. Was it real?) before she started to pull cards off and arrange them into nice little 'pairs'.

Lesseee.... Well..



Annndddddd....



Anndd..hmmmm...




Hmm. Seemed like she was out of fake-pairings to make now! Oh well! She could just be amused by what she had assumed were matches made in heaven hell. Exciting! She'd have to see what happened between then and the Masque. Fu fu fu~