Violet wasn't a fan of Halloween. She didn't like scary movies or haunted houses. But when Ramona and Jackson asked her if she wanted to go with them to a haunted house, she didn't have the heart to say no. Plus she didn't want to seem lame and not go because she didn't want to watch scary stuff. So she put on a brave face and agreed.
DJ had been surprised the three preteens didn't want to stick around for the Halloween party she was throwing for Max and his friends, but she understood. When Violet got to Mighty Mountain Haunted Halloween, she noticed even the outside of the building looked scary. She didn't even want to imagine what the inside was like.
"I can't believe I agreed to go with you guys." Violet muttered, hugging her arms as the three of them stood in line.
"Come on, Vivi. It'll be fun." Jackson insisted.
"Yeah, and we'll be together the whole time." Ramona reassured Violet.
Inside the haunted house, there were tons of different scary props and decorations. A lot of scare actors too. While Violet knew they were just actors, that didn't mean they didn't scare her. And the fact that the three of them got separated made it worse.
"This is why I hate haunted houses and haunted mazes. I always get lost." Violet complained as she walked down the hallway by herself. "Jackson, Ramona, where are you?"
Violet let out a scream, eyes widening when a scary looking clown popped out, jumping back a bit and nearly falling. She bumped into someone which made her scream even more.
"Hey, Vi, it's just me! Calm down!"
She takes a deep breath, her heart rate slowly calming down when she realized Jackson stood by her, his hands on her shoulders to steady her and keep her from falling. "Oh, thank god it's just you." Violet said in relief.
"Yeah, you should've seen your face. You were so scared." Jackson grinned.
Violet rolls her eyes. "As if you're not scared. I could hear your screams from the other room."
"Okay, you got me. This place is really scary." Jackson admitted, taking a deep breath as he took a quick glance around the hallway.
"Where's Ramona?" Violet asked.
"Right here."
Both Violet and Jackson yelp at the sudden voice, grabbing onto each other instinctively and glancing at the person who appeared beside them. Ramona laughs. "Oh my gosh, you should've seen your faces!"
Violet and Jackson glares. "Not funny." Volet replied with a pout.
"I disagree. That was hilarious." Ramona retorts.
"Yeah, well, let's just keep moving." Violet said.
As they continued walking, the three of them walking around a corner. "See? These theme parks aren't that scary." Jackson commented, jumping back and bumping into Violet accidentally, letting out a yelp when he saw one of the creepy skeleton decorations .
Violet chuckles, amused by his reaction. "Yeah, they're not that scary." She remarked sarcastically.
"Shut up." Jackson grumbled.
"This is so much cooler than a party full of eight year olds." Ramona grinned.
"I don't know about that. I think I prefer that party than this." Violet admitted, staying close to Jackson. Neither of them had realized their arms had continued o be wrapped around each other.
Suddenly, when a animatic monster flew at them, causing them all to scream and scramble away from him. "Yeah, good one, big dude." Jackson nervously said as they tried to catch their breaths.
Ramona scoffs when she noticed a table of fake heads. "These are so fake."
"You're fake." One of the heads remarked, causing Ramona to scream, backing up to stand by Violet and Jackson.
"I guess they're all not fake." Violet muttered.
Suddenly, the coffin near the table of heads open and an actor dressed as Dracula walked out. "Come. Be my bride. Forever." He spoke in Dracula's voice.
Violet and Ramona shared a wide eyed look. "Who, me or her?" Ramona asked nervously.
"Yeah, I'm gonna have to say no thanks to that." Violet retorted.
"No, him!" The Dracula actor points at Jackson, causing the three preteens to share a confused look. "You see what I did there?" The actor asks, speaking in his normal voice. "I flipped the joke." The three preteens just continued to stare at him and the actor shrugged, rolling his eyes and got back in the coffin and closed the door.
Jackson jumps, backing away when someone tapped his shoulder. "Enter, young teens. If you dare..." Violet's eyes widened as she stared at the actor dressed as a zombie. He was in a nearby room, pointing at them.
"Do we dare?" Jackson questioned, glancing back at the girls nervously.
"I don't dare." Violet admitted.
"Of course we dare." Ramona argued.
After taking a look inside the room, Jackson looks at Ramona. "You dare first."
Ramona sighs and walks inside, Violet and Jackson close behind. Violet notices the room looked like some kind of lab. As they cautiously walked in, they jumped, startled when they heard a groan and saw a female zombie actor walking over to them. "Fresh brains."
"I'm not clear on the whole storyline here. Were you invented in the lab or did you break into the lab?" Ramona asked.
"Who are you, the logic police?" The male zombie actor remarks. When two other teens started to walk in, he points at them and orders. "Get out!" He then locks the door and turns back to the trio. "The door is locked. No one's going anywhere."
"Is that even allowed?" Violet nervously questioned.
"I was a hall monitor last year and that's against fire regulations." Jackson chimed in.
"Silence, nerd." The female zombie actor told him.
Violet couldn't help but snicker a little. "She called you a nerd." She said in a quiet voice, causing Jackson to glare at her.
"I'm not scared of you." Ramona said, trying to sound brave.
"We know." The male zombie actor replies. "We're sucking the thoughts right out of your brains."
"Okay, I watched The Walking Dead and I'm pretty sure zombies can't do that." Violet replied.
"Oh, really? How come we're doing it right now?" The male zombie asked as he and the female zombie acted as if they were sucking their thoughts out.
"Then what am I thinking?" Ramona inquired.
"Your feet hurt." The female zombie actor answers. "From dance class."
Ramona's eyes widen and she looks scared. "Woah! How did you know that?"
The female zombie actor points at Violet. "And you don't want to be here because you're afraid of horror movies and haunted houses."
Violet's eyes widen and she gulps. "Well, obviously." She and Ramona grabbed onto each other as they started walking backwards away from the female zombie actor who was walking towards them.
Meanwhile, the male zombie actor started walking towards Jackson. "And you, why aren't you at home with your family?"
"You're not reading my mind. You could say that about any teenager." Jackson defended himself.
"You skipped your brother's party and you broke your mother's heart." The male zombie actor voiced.
Jackson's eyes widen. "Okay, that one seemed more about me." As the girls backed up over to the door where he was, he grabs their arms and pulls them over. "Well, uh, we're gonna head out now. If you could just...Unlock the door."
"Not gonna happen, Jackson." The female zombie actor spoke.
Violet's eyes widen and she shares a shocked look with her friends. "They know your name." Ramona gasped.
"Zip it, Ramona!" The male zombie actor pointed at her.
"And they know mine!" Ramona shouted with a terrified look.
Violet's eyes widen. "This is getting too weird."
"Shut it, Violet!" The female zombie actor told her.
The three preteens screamed, running to the other side of the room when the two zombie actors acted as if they were going to attack them. "You we should have stayed at home with your families." The male zombie actor said.
"If you let me go, that's exactly what I'll do." Ramona admited.
"There brains are too small to eat." The male zombie actor comments. "Not worth the hassle. Like crab legs."
"We promise we'll go straight home." Jackson said.
"Go. Now." The male zombie actor unlocks the door and opens the door. "Before Uber surge pricing kicks in." Violet gasped at that. How did these actors know they were taking an Uber? And how did they know who they were? With a scream, the three preteens ran out of the room.
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"Definitely gonna be having nightmares for awhile." Violet confessed as she, Violet, and Ramona got back to the house.
"Same here." Ramona sighed.
"Well, that was an interesting experience." Jackson commented.
"Tell me about it." Violet agreed.
"Hi, mom." Jackson greets once they got inside the kitchen. Violet smiles a little, noticing DJ was dressed as Goldie Locks. "So good to be home."
DJ smiles, hugging Jackson back when her son hugged her. "Oh, what are you guys doing home so early?"
"Well, we knew you felt bad about us being here." Jackson replied.
"So we decided to make our parents happy." Ramona added.
"I just wanted to leave that creepy place." Violet admits. "And also make you happy." She quickly added.
"It was the right thing to do." Jackson smiled.
"We're very proud of you."
The three preteens screamed when they suddenly heard the female zombie voice. They backed away, holding onto each other as they stared in fear at seeing the two zombie actors in the kitchen.
Then the female zombie actor started laughing and Violet realized who they were. "Stephanie, Jimmy!" Violet groans. "Not cool."
"Got ya." Stephanie grinned.
"We knew it was the two of you all along." Jackson scoffed.
"Yeah, no you didn't." Jimmy argued.
"Is it still too late to be invited to the eight year old party?" Ramona inquired.
"No." DJ smiles. "But I have to warn you, it's not very scary."
"Good." Violet sighed in relief.
"Yeah," Ramona agrees. "That's okay, we've had enough scary for one night."
Then the three of them walk backyard where Max and his friends were along with his friend's parents. The back yard was decorated with Halloween decorations, orange and black streamers, and a table full of snacks and treats.
To help with impressing Taylor, Stephanie and Jimmy asked some of their friends from the haunted house to scare him. And Violet knew it worked when Taylor ran into the house screaming in fear. Violet was confused at first why they were even doing that, but after DJ explained Taylor had wrote on his blog about how this house was the lamest one on the block.
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(violet's halloween costume)
Violet ended up going trick or treating with the Fullers. Violet found it so cute the boys were dressed as the three bears from the Goldie Lock story. Violet was dressed as Lavagirl from Sharkboy and Lavagirl. She loved that movie and so why not dress as Lavagirl. She even used temporary pink hair dye to match her hair as Lavagirl's in the movie.
Violet walks into the house next door, not even bothering with knocking. "Evening, people! Lavagirl is in the house!"
Jackson had to do a double take after seeing her costume. "Whoa. Vi, you look amazing." He said, grinning.
She smiles at him, her cheeks turning pink. "Thanks."
"Yeah, you look great!" DJ commented with a smile.
"Thanks." Violet grins, smiling widely when she saw DJ's costume with the boy. She found it so sweet the boys were dressed as the three bears from the Goldie Locks and the three bears story. "Oh my gosh, this is adorable. I need a picture."
"No more pictures!" Jackson immediately said. "I only agreed to one for mom. And I made sure she wouldn't post it on any media."
"I promise." DJ tells them. "Okay, come on. Let's get this show on the road."
"I still want that picture." Violet pouted.
"No way. You would probably use it for blackmail or something." Jackson said, shaking his head.
"I would never!" Violet gasped, looking offended.
"Yeah, right." Jackson muttered.
"Alright, you ready?" DJ asked.
"Obviously! Let's go get some candy." Violet grins. "I love getting free candy." She followed the Fullers out of the house and soon they got to trick or treating. Violet had to admit despite being thirteen years old, she had a blast with them. It was a bit embarrassing at first, but after a while, she didn't care. She still had a great time with them and she wouldn't have changed it for the world.
A/N violet & jackson >>>>