Costumes
For me, Halloween is the best holiday in the world. It even beats Christmas. I get
to dress up in a costume. I get to wear a mask. I get to go around like every
other kid with a mask and nobody thinks I look weird. Nobody takes a second
look. Nobody notices me. Nobody knows me.
I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time.
Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see
what we looked like under the masks.
When I was little, I used to wear an astronaut helmet everywhere I went. To the
playground. To the supermarket. To pick Via up from school. Even in the middle
of summer, though it was so hot my face would sweat. I think I wore it for a
couple of years, but I had to stop wearing it when I had my eye surgery. I was
about seven, I think. And then we couldn't find the helmet after that. Mom looked
everywhere for it. She figured that it had probably ended up in Grans's attic, and
she kept meaning to look for it, but by then I had gotten used to not wearing it.
I have pictures of me in all my Halloween costumes. My first Halloween I was a
pumpkin. My second I was Tigger. My third I was Peter Pan (my dad dressed up
as Captain Hook). My fourth I was Captain Hook (my dad dressed up as Peter
Pan). My fifth I was an astronaut. My sixth I was Obi-Wan Kenobi. My seventh I
was a clone trooper. My eighth I was Darth Vader. My ninth I was the Bleeding
Scream, the one that has fake blood oozing out over the skull mask.
This year I'm going to be Boba Fett: not Boba Fett the kid in Star Wars Episode
II: Attack of the Clones, but Boba Fett the man from Star Wars Episode V: The
Empire Strikes Back . Mom searched everywhere for the costume but couldn't
find one in my size, so she bought me a Jango Fett costume
—since Jango was
Boba's dad and wore the same armor
—and then painted the armor green. She
did some other stuff to it to make it look worn, too. Anyway, it looks totally real.
Mom's good at costumes.
In homeroom we all talked about what we were going to be for Halloween.
Charlotte was going as Hermione from Harry Potter. Jack was going as a
wolfman. I heard that Julian was going as Jango Fett, which was a weird
coincidence. I don't think he liked hearing that I was going as Boba Fett.
On the morning of Halloween, Via had this big crying meltdown about
something. Via's always been so calm and cool, but this year she's had a couple
of these kinds of fits. Dad was late for work and was like, "Via, let's go! Let's go!"
Usually Dad is super patient about things, but not when it comes to his being
late for work, and his yelling just stressed out Via even more, and she started
crying louder, so Mom told Dad to take me to school and that she'd deal with
Via. Then Mom kissed me goodbye quickly, before I even put on my costume,
and disappeared into Via's room.
"Auggie, let's go now!" said Dad. "I have a meeting I can't be late for!"
"I haven't put my costume on yet!"
"So put it on, already. Five minutes. I'll meet you outside."
I rushed to my room and started to put on the Boba Fett costume, but all of a
sudden I didn't feel like wearing it. I'm not sure why
—maybe because it had all
these belts that needed to be tightened and I needed someone's help to put it
on. Or maybe it was because it still smelled a little like paint. All I knew was that
it was a lot of work to put the costume on, and Dad was waiting and would get
super impatient if I made him late. So, at the last minute, I threw on the
Bleeding Scream costume from last year. It was such an easy costume: just a
long black robe and a big white mask. I yelled goodbye from the door on my way
out, but Mom didn't even hear me.
"I thought you were going as Jango Fett," said Dad when I got outside.
"Boba Fett!"
"Whatever," said Dad.
"This is a better costume anyway." "Yeah, it's cool," I answered.
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