This choice: A couple rolls of bandages from Allison, for a mummy costume. • Go Back...Chapter #5A couple rolls of bandages from Allison, for a ... by: Teraton   "You can't be serious," Eric said, grabbing a strip of fabric from within the bag. He lifted it higher and higher, slowly unraveling a massive roll of gauze.
"You try coming up with something good on such short notice," Allison said, reaching into the bag and removing a pair of scissors and a roll of tape, "you're lucky my mom works in a doctor's office or you'd be out of a costume."
"I'm not sure I have a costume now," Eric said back, "what am I supposed to do with all of this?"
"You'll be a mummy!" Sandy chirped.
"... so I'm just going to wrap myself up in this stuff?" Eric experimentally wound a length of it along his arm. On top of his sleeve, not only was it odd looking and uneven, but it was incredibly uncomfortable, even just with a couple of layers. "I don't think it's really going to work like this."
"Well, yeah," Allison said, "it'd probably be way too hard to move if you wrapped it over your clothes."
"So what do you want me to do then?" Eric asked. In response, Allison raised an eyebrow, Joe looked away and coughed into his hand, while Sandy just looked down and blushed. It took Eric a second to get the implication.
"Woah! No way!" Eric shouted, dropping the bandage like it had caught fire. "I'd wear this stuff out with you guys but not if that's all I'm wearing!"
"Calm down, you big baby!" Allison started, gathering up the discarded gauze, "no one said you had to go that far," she gave Eric a once over and snickered when he gave her a weird look. "Just, like, down to your boxers or something."
"That's still a little more than I'd really like...."
"Ah, c'mon, man," Joe started, "it'll be fun! This Holiday is all about looking weird and goofy! The point of it is to go out wearing either way more or way less than you're supposed to normally."
"If you don't want to Eric, it's alright," Sandy offered, looking disappointed but still smiling, "but it'll be fun! We promise!"
Eric sighed, looking from friend to friend to friend, to the bag on the floor. He shut his eyes, rolled his head back, and gave his answer.....
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"Stupid, hate these bandages," Eric muttered to himself in his room. He was standing there, a pair of sneakers on and a pair of boxers on, but bare besides, desperately trying to wind the bandages around his arm, but every time he let go to grab a piece of tape or snip something with the scissors, the gauze would loosen under just one hand.
"You okay in there...?" Joe asked from the other side of the door.
"Yeah, hurry up," Allison said, "it took long enough to get you to come out, lets just do it already!"
"Hang on!" Eric shouted back, "It's hard to do this with one pair of hands." He struggled for a second longer, but heard Allison snickering from the hallway.
"You need some help?" she asked.
"Not from you!" Eric shot back.
"What about me?" Joe asked.
Eric paused for a moment considering the offer. "Eh..." If it was Joe, he could trust him to be cool about it, but he wasn't sure Joe would have a better time than he was having. Allison, on the other hand, was a bit better with her hands. Of course, she'd give him hell the whole time about being almost naked, but it would at least get over quicker than if Joe helped, or if he kept doing it himself. In the end...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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