~ Chapter 29: Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. ~

“Ok. So... Where did we leave off on the list?” He asked.

I shrugged and went to pick it up in my drawer. We still had plenty of things to do. Damon went through it for a little while and stopped on Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

“How are we going to do that?” Damon asked.

“Um… Maybe we should ask Jenny, she’s really good at that.”

Damon smiled and followed me downstairs. Jenny was watching a lame TV Show.

“Hey, Jenny, what was the most embarrassing moment of your life?” I asked her, pressing the mute button of the TV remote.

“Um… I don’t know. Maybe that time when I didn’t find my shirt so I had to go back home with only my bra…”

Damon opened wide eyes. I punched him in the arm.

“Ouch!”

“Stop fantasying about my best friend!” I teased him.

“I wasn’t!”

Jenny shrugged and put back the volume to hear who was going to be eliminated from the show.

“Oh, maybe it was when I talked to myself during an exam.” She continued. “Everyone was looking at me like I was crazy but I had just found out my boyfriend had discovered I was sleeping with his brother in the same time. I don’t know, you pick.”

I laughed.

“Why are you asking anyway?” She inquired.

“Damon and I are trying to find something to do to make a complete and utter fool or ourselves.”

“Er… Why?”

“It’s in his list.”

I had told Jenny about the list and everything we had to do. She did not get why I had to do it too though.

“Oh. Well, I don’t know. Google it and you’ll probably find something.”

We searched on the computer some things without any convincing result.

“I have an idea!” Jenny exclaimed at some point. “You exchange your clothes and spend a day out in it. You’ll definitely be ridiculous. Damon will probably be the most ridiculous but whatever, it’s his list mostly, right?”

I shrugged. It wasn’t a bad idea.

“Let’s do it.” Damon said.

“You’re in?” I asked, surprised.

“Sure. Could be fun.”

Jenny said she would go find something for him to wear and she came back a few minutes later with something she was hiding behind her back.

“I found something even better.” She said, before showing us what she was holding.

A fairy costume. Flashy pink, with wings, glitters and everything.

“Um… First question, why do you have that?” I asked.

“I wore it for the fantasy party. Josh thought it was sexy.”

“Second question, how do you think Damon is going to fit in that?”

Jenny is super thin even thought she has big boobs and Damon is all muscle so they definitely don’t wear the same size of clothes.

“He’ll just keep the zipper down. Come on, try it on.”

Damon looked like he was hesitating but then he grabbed the costume and went in another room to change. When he finally came back, I thought I was going to pee myself from laughing. He looked completely, a hundred percent ridiculous. This fairy costume was too short for him so it was like a flashy pink leotard with wings and sequins everywhere. He was holding the wand, smiling and blushing from shame.

“You are the hottest fairy I’ve ever seen.” Jenny laughed.

The two of us couldn’t stop laughing. And man it felt good after those depressing days! When Damon glanced a look at himself in the mirror, he screamed and then laughed.

“I’m definitely making a complete and utter fool of myself by wearing this. Oh my god…”

I was still caught up in a hysterical laughter. I finally stopped and took a moment to catch my breath. Jenny was taking pictures while Damon was trying to hide himself. But it was pretty hard for him to move fast in this costume so Jenny was faster.

“Please don’t post that online!” Damon begged. “My grandma is going to have a heart attack if she sees me wearing something like that.”

“Yeah, right! I bet she can’t even use the Internet. You better hope so cause it-“ She paused and clicked on something. “-Is-“ Another click. “Done. You’re officially famous.”

“Noooo!!” Damon exclaimed. “Please take it off!!”

Jenny laughed. I know what she was thinking cause the same thing had crossed my mind. ‘Why do you care, you’re going to die anyway’.

“I’ll come with you guys.” Jenny said, grabbing her coat. “Leah, you need to change your clothes to something ridiculous.”

“Do you have an idea?” I asked, fearing the worst.

“You could go off in your underwear.” She proposed, still thinking.

“That wouldn’t be ridiculous.” Damon corrected. “That would be hot. And I don’t want people staring at my girlfriend’s hot body.”

Jenny laughed and I blushed, smiling.

“I know!! You could wear a ski suit.”

“Jenny, it’s a hundred degrees outside! I can’t wear a ski suit.”

“Right… Um… How about… A monkey costume!!”

I laughed. “A monkey costume?” I repeated.

“Sure! It can be fun. You can walk in it holding a banana and I’m sure people will think you’re ridiculous. Oh! And you can walk on your fists, you know like the monkeys do!”

“Um…” I was hesitating. It was completely ridiculous. And I wasn’t dying so it would stay on the Internet forever. My grandkids would be able to see it, if I ever had some.

“Come on! It could be fun!” Jenny said, begging me to do it.

“Ok. But who the hell owns a gorilla costume?”

“Your brother.”

“What?”

“Seth. He has a gorilla costume. He wore it at a party.”

“Why?”

“He lost a bet.”

I said I would do it so Jenny, excited, called Seth to ask him where he had put the costume, hoping it was still here. I was actually praying for it to be at Jason’s so that I wouldn’t have to wear it but luck wasn’t on my side this time and Jenny told me it was tidied in her room. She went upstairs to look for it and came back with the most ridiculous costume ever.

“You’re lucky, we even have bananas.” Jenny laughed as she was giving it to me.

After making Jenny promise she wouldn’t take a picture to post it online, I went to change in another room and when I came back, they burst out laughing.

“Oh my god, it is definitely the most ridiculous costume ever. After Damon’s.” Jenny said.

When I saw myself, I laughed too and blushed, ashamed.

“So, where are you guys heading?” Jenny asked.

“I don’t know.”

“You could do a tour of the city.” Jenny proposed. “I think it’ll be enough to make a fool of yourselves.”

“Just standing here in that costume makes us ridiculous!” I said.

“So, Jenny, you’re coming with us?” Damon asked.

“Actually, I think I’ll pass. I have a dignity and a certain reputation to preserve.”

“Chicken.”

“I’m not chickening out, I’m just being reasonable.”

“Since when are you reasonable?” I asked, laughing when I thought of all the stupid and ridiculous things my best friend could have done.

“I guess there’s a first for everything. And it’s your list, not mine. I never signed up for this.”

“Too bad for you.”

“Yeah, too bad!” She repeated, laughing.

We decided to go so we took our courage in our hands and went out. It was really hot and I was sweating like hell inside this costume. Damon was laughing, moving his pink wand as if he was casitng a spell. We walked in the streets and I could see the shocked looks of everyone around us. Unfortunately, a lot of people took their cameras or phones to take pictures. I was hidden behind a mask but, still, I was feeling completely ridiculous. Damon was laughing and jumping like a little girl, or trying to, cause it wasn’t really graceful. Some people asked if they could take a picture with us and we posed, giggling. I must admit, even though it was the most ridiculous moment of my life, it was also one of the bests. I had never laughed that much I think.

After taking a tour of the city and posing, we finally went home. I went in another room to undress and ran in the shower to splash myself with cold water. Then I just put on a big tee-shirt and joined Damon and Jenny downstairs. She was showing him something on her phone.

“There are already a hundred and sixty likes of Damon’s picture that I put on Facebook and Instagram.” Jenny laughed, showing me.

“Wow!”

“Oh! Another one! You’re very popular!” Jenny teased him.

“Would you resent me if I’d kill your best friend?” Damon joked.

“Please go ahead!”

Jenny stuck her tongue out at us. We talked for hours and teased each other. I asked Damon if he was staying the night but he declined the offer, said he needed some sleep. So after dinner he went back at his place and Jenny and I watched a movie before going to bed. I can’t tell you how glad I was that things were finally back to normal, even if I knew it wasn’t going to last forever.