Nicole Ali--April 16, 2000

Well, that was different...

I went on a double date last night, along with my sister Kim, and it turned out pretty weird. I cant really remember it too clearly & I'm no writer, so I better warn you right now: this is gonna sound weird!

Anyways, here's what happened.  This guy I knew from school asked me out to go to this "gothic" club.  I've never been to one before, so I didn't know to much about them. but this guy was kinda cute (although in a weeeeird sorta way!) and he asked if I could get his bud a girl so we could double date. I said sure, 'cuz I thought Kim would like to go (its been a long time since she's gone out to have any kind of fun, ever since she turned invisible way back when.)  So I told him I thought I could, but that I'd have to check & get back to him.

So when I got home & called Kim & told her, she said yeah, okay, she'd like to go too (after the usual questions, asking what the guys look like, etc.)  Then she asked where we were going & I told her a gothic club.  Right away, she starts getting cold feet, but not real noticeable yet.  But I called the guy back & said we'd go.

Since I never been to one of these clubs before, I wasn't sure how to dress, so I asked a couple of friends of mine from school who're into that scene, and they loaned me some clothes to wear, all black lace, all kinds of cool stuff. I took 'em home & dressed up. I looked really freaky, really witchy (see picture above) and couldn't wait for Saturday night.

Then yesterday afternoon, Kim starts really getting cold feet about the whole deal, like she doesn't want to go anymore.  Then when she saw how I was going to dress, she really started flipping out, saying something like neither of us were going. I got mad & yelled at her & we fought about it for a while, and finally she gave in & agreed to go, but didn't really want to.  (She ended up not even dressing right; all she wore was a black sweatshirt & pants with some black pumps--realy imaginative!!)

So the time comes & the guys show up (I cant mention their real names, so I'll just call them 'Alucard' and 'Igor' for now) and even though she doesn't say anything, I can tell Kim doesn't like the guys; she's like really giving them the deep freeze, if you know what I mean.  Just as we're leaving, she says, real quiet, that she's only going along to keep me out of trouble.  I kinda rolled my eyes, but didn't say anything, I didn't want to start another fight in front of the guys (for some reason, guys always freak out when Kim & me fight.)  Anyway, I went with "Alucard" & Kim got stuck with "Igor."

We got to the club and even tho the music took some getting use to, we liked it & danced to it.  The people there really looked different!  I fit in pretty good, but Kim kinda stuck out like a sore thumb 'cuz of how she was dressed.  But we had a good time anyway, we danced a lot & drank a lil bit (we had these weird, freaky glowing purple drinks that sorta looked like a black-lite tube. I think Alucard called it "the purple plague" or something like that. I don't know what was in it, but it was powerful!! after a couple of those and I was flying!)

After a few drinks, I really started loosening up & laughing & getting goofy and everything. Kim loosened up a lil bit too, but not as much. Then the weirdest thing started happening: we started fading out, the both of us!  First it was only bits & pieces of us: Kim's hands, parts of my face & chest, etc. and we couldn't stop it!! Once we realized what was going on, we both sobered up pretty quick.  We excused ourselves & made a quick beeline for the girls bathroom.  Once we got in there, we saw that we were starting to fade away even faster!  We were in a total panic, and naturally, we started arguing about it again, blaming each other for our predicament.

We waited in there a while longer, trying to stop fading away by thinking about it, like we normally do, but we still couldn't stop it!  The drinks we had made it hard to think straight.  Finally, it looked like the fading was slowing down & finally stopped and that we would stay solid for a while.  We both took deep breaths, turned & were just about to walk back out again when I happened to turn back to say something to Kim and she completely disappeared!!!  Her head & hands were gone and all that was left of her was the sweatshirt & pants she had on.  When she realized what happened, we both freaked out all over again.

We knew she couldn't go back out there that way without attracting a lot of attention (even in that freaky place!)  So we figured the best thing would be for her to undress and get completely invisible (I stuffed her clothes in my purse as well as I could) and then somehow leave early and sneak her into the car with us and get her home that way.  We didn't know how we were gonna do this, but we were both so punchy we could only deal with one problem at a time.

So back we went to the table, I'm holding Kim's hand so I don't lose her in the crowd & the dark.  When I got back to the table, I made up some BS story about how Kim had to leave early 'cuz of some emergency or other.  I thought the guys'd be disappointed, but instead they acted like they were glad to be rid of her, 'cuz they said she was being such a wet blanket.  They started making all kinds of rude comments about her too (I wont repeat them here, even if I could remember them), and I started to get mad.  I think Kim got mad too, 'cuz right about then, both these guys started spilling drinks on themselves and their chairs started tipping over, dumping them onto the floor.  Igor ended up getting the worst of it, 'cuz he said the meanest things about Kim. Anyways, he took off after a while.

So now it was just me & Alucard alone at the table (except for Kim, of course, but he didn't know she was there.)  And we hung around for a while longer, even though the original plan was to leave early.  Kim kept whispering to me "Come on, come on, let's go home, I don't wanna spend all night here like this!"  But Alucard asked me so nice to dance with him some more, and I thought, 'well, it couldn't hurt,' so we hit the dance floor again. But he started to get a little touchy-feely, if you know what I mean. (if I knew him better, I might not mind so much maybe, but I practically just met the guy, so I got kinda pissed.)  Then he starts putting the moves on me, and I ended up shoving him away, but he still don't get the message, so he keeps it up.

Then suddenly, he starts pulling away from me, real sudden like.  And I notice his clothes are like moving kinda funny, and I figured out it's Kim pulling him off of me.  I got kinda embarrassed; I can take care of myself, I don't need Kim protecting me. So I started yanking him back! Now the guy's getting pulled in two different directions, like a wishbone, pulled in one direction by me, the other direction by invisible Kim. The poor guy had no idea what the hell was going on, the other people are starting to watch, they think we're doing some crazy new dance step!  The crowd starts applauding & cheering, Kim & me keep up our tug-of-war, and then it all comes out: Kim yells at me, "what, you want him all to yourself?"  And then I realize: she's not trying to protect me; she wants the guy for herself! (I guess she was jealous of me all this time & I didn't even know it.) Now I'm really steamed, so I grab a good hold of him and start yanking him back even harder, and Kim does the same thing.  The guy really went bonkers then, and started screaming about invisible hands groping him.

We keep pulling & yanking until finally he ends up getting his clothes ripped off (I actually kind of liked that, he looked fine with his shirt off and even better without his pants!)  Then he took off running and that was the last I saw of him.  The crowd went totally nuts, cheering & clapping and the next thing I knew, all the guys wanted to dance with me. I wanted to dance with all of them too, but I couldn't, of course, so I had to do 'em one at a time.  Kim was still mad, tho & really wanted to go home.  Either that or maybe she got jealous.  Anyways, while I was dancing with one guy, Kim slipped her clothes out of my purse without me noticing & somehow sneaked back into the girls' bathroom where she got dressed again.  The next thing I knew, here comes Kim's empty clothes floating out of the bathroom, with her still invisible, and she's waving her arms around, howling like a ghost, trying to scare everybody.

Only they didn't get scared. They liked it!  They started cheering & clapping again and then everybody surrounded her, wanting to meet her & telling her how cool she was, asking how she turned invisible, etc.  Now Kim was Miss Popular and everybody was ignoring me!  So I got mad. I kept saying, "Hey, what about me?!?  Did you guys all forget about me?!?"  I kept trying to get everyone's attention, but everybody kept ignoring me.  So I went back to the table and sulked.

I had a couple of more "Purple Plagues" and just sulked.  Then Kim walked back to the table and says, "Stop sulking, you big baby." I said, 'easy for you to say!  Everybody likes you now! Just 'cuz you're invisible!  Nobody likes me anymore!"  And she says, "well, why don't you get invisible too and quit whining?"  I feel so stupid now, 'cuz I didn't even think of that at the time!  So I did! I finished off the last of my drink and made myself disappear right then & there.  All the people who were watching kinda gasped and then they clapped and like before, all the guys suddenly wanted to dance with me again! (I think I looked better than Kim tho, 'cuz I was dressed better!)

Anyway, we had a real good time.  Later on a bunch of us shared a taxi home (believe it or not, the driver didn't even blink when he saw two sets of empty girls clothes climb into his cab--this IS New York afterall, so that's probably why.)

So like I said, it was a weird night, but we had fun.

OXOXOXOXO
Nikki

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