Every so often, grown men and women dress up in costumes and masks and gather to drink and dance and be someone else. You should meet some of them.
Sara the Slut wants to do the business with Dracula. Dick the Detective has been threatening to body search everyone, except the Nun, whose behaviour is slowly becoming less and less....um, holy. This has not gone unnoticed by the very patient Patient, abandoned since the Nurse decided to escape with Houdini.
These observations, and the rumoured presence of Bree C, have Pete the Paparazzi beside himself. Before this year's Combined Charities Costume Party with Masks is over, he will expose the pride of this town's business folk, and its improbable world famous peddler of C Rap music, for what they really are.
Ingenious!
No, not them. Him!
Behind the perfect cover, Pete has been able to snap away with the fake, 'fake' camera, if you know what I mean. And while nothing worthy of the Internet has happened yet, he knows it will. Just as it has every other year, but gone unreported.
Not this time.
The 2001 Combined Charities Costume Party with Masks will catapult his name into paparazzi fame.
Out on the dance floor, Pete can see that Mandingo the Slave is the master. The World's Ugliest Woman is also there, having way too much fun as the giant Negro bumps and grinds her from behind. Deemed too ugly to be seen, she wears a white hooded robe that looks more like the KKK. It's anyone's guess who she really is; anyone that is, except her husband Pete. And he's not impressed when the giant black hands slide upwards, taming her bouncing tits with a force that almost squashes them flat. Immediately, she throws her head back in approval, before taking his hands and returning them to her waist.
Hey, you! That's my missus.
To Pete's relief, the song ends, and Mandingo and The World's Ugliest Woman break apart.
Shit! Now, they're heading this way.
Pete does his best to slip into the darkness of the corridor leading to the toilets. Thankfully, she stops short of him, and enters the ladies room. Mandingo loiters outside, clearly hatching a plan.
Bugger off, will you!
He doesn't.
Quite the contrary. Pete the Paparazzi watches Mandingo take The World's Ugliest Woman by the arm and lead her further into the darkness. Here, he pushes her roughly against the wall. The onslaught catches her by surprise and she drops her purse. As she bends to pick it up, Mandingo shamelessly lifts her robe, exposing a bare arse.
"Hey!" she calls, tugging her robe down again. "Take it easy."
Yeah, ya' big log. Leave her be. And you go and get some knickers on!