This is a fictional story.
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Jay and Mike were sitting in their freshman dorm room on Thursday night studying but also thinking about the weekend ahead. It was October 26th and both were planning on staying at college for the weekend.
"We got to find a way to meet some more of the woman downstairs," Mike said.
"Yeah...but how do we accomplish that," Jay asked?
"I don't know but what good are coed dorms if ya can't meet the women on the other floor?" Mike asked hoping to find a way.
"Ya got a point there," Jay agreed.
Both guys had been studying pretty hard since getting to college back in August and really wanted a break. Sure wrestling practice had started but that was not the only diversion the guys were looking for. The beer parties the frats were throwing to lure pledges were fun but not the best way to meet women they had found. At least they had not been so far.
"Hey, this is the weekend before Halloween. Maybe we should get with the other guys on the floor and invited the girls up to go trick or treating from door to door for candy," Jay said.
"What...and we dress up in costumes? Is that what you are thinking?" Mike asked to make sure he understood but also maybe contributing to the idea.
"Yeah, we can throw something together that won't cost a ton of money," Jay responded.
"Not bad...not bad, but do ya think the girls will actually go for that idea," Mike asked?
"Why not? Chicks like candy. They would probably go for it," Jay thought.
"Would they be required to dress up too?" Mike wanted to know.
"Good point, that is how it is suppose to work, huh? More so than us dressing up as the candy givers," Jay agreed.
"Yeah, I bet we'd have a hard time convincing the girls to prepare costumes on such short notice. How the hell would we get the word out so quick anyway that they needed to have a costume by Saturday or Sunday," Mike stated.
"You're bumming me out man! Ya don't think this idea will work," Jay asked?
"I think we might have a hard time convincing the other guys too. They are not going to shell out cash for candy not being sure how many girls might actually come," Mike added. "If we make costumes a requirement, we might only get a few women."
"Yeah...ya got a point there too. But I still think it is a good concept using Halloween. We just need to come up with a better idea," Jay said.
The guys gave up for a while and went back to studying. Unfortunately, they both had a hard time with their work preferring to think more about the weekend.
"Hey, what about we construct a fun house or haunted house? We could decorate the floor and some of the rooms into a haunted house. Then we could invite the women up for a walk through." Jay proposed liking the idea as he pieced it together.
"Hum...that is not bad. But wouldn't it cost us a ton," Mike asked?
"I think we could do it on the cheap," Jay said. "Haunted Houses are all about the darkness. We just need to cover the windows with blankets and get some scary masks," Jay added.
"Yeah...we could start them down by the stairs and finish by leading them down the back stairwell. If we can get them screaming, it will sound so like they are being murdered in that echo chamber of a stairwell." Mike said warming to the idea.
"God, your right! People will be able to hear that throughout the building," Jay laughed.
"Yeah...I like this idea but can we really make it look good. If it is lame, they won't go for it," Mike said.
"Let's ask the other guys. We will need their help so we better get them involved and on board first," Jay said.
"Good thought!" Mike agreed.
They put down their books and walked out into the hall. They shared the last room at the end of the hall where the emergency back staircase was. The bathroom for the floor was across the hall from them. They walked up the hall stopping in a couple rooms and asking the guys they found to meet in Andy's room. Andy's room was about half way up the hall.
When five other guys were gathered in the room, Jay and Mike sketched out their plan. The other guys were all for doing something except Jon. He planned to go home for the weekend. He usually did with a girlfriend still back home. He also only lived about an hour away. The rest were staying and up for something. They liked the haunted house idea and even volunteered some ideas.
They all agreed the first thing was to decide how much this haunted house might cost them. Jon had a car on campus and agreed to take Jay and Mike to some stores to check out what the decorations and costumes might cost to buy or rent. He also said he had several great masks at home. If he could get his mom to express mail them, they could use them for the weekend.
The guys talked some more about how they would lay out the haunted house. It was agreed one guy would have to lead each girl through one at a time. They would start at the main stairwell and then come down the hall. The hall would be dark and decorated with cobwebs, spiders and other scary things. They would also put furniture covered in dark blankets and stuff in the way so it would be much harder to navigate through in the dark than just a straight walk down the hall.
From as many side rooms as they could they would have various monsters in costumes and masks jump out to frighten the girls. They would lead them down the hall and into the bathroom as that was by far the biggest room. The girls would have to run a gauntlet of monsters and obstacles in there before they could make the complete circuit and exit. As they exited the bathroom, the monsters from two of the last rooms and from Jay and Mike's room would be waiting. They would all jump out and surround, the hopefully by then frighten girl, for one last major scare. The stairwell door would be left cracked a slight bit allowing a thin line of light and showing them the exit path. They hoped to have the girls screaming bloody murder by the time they hit the stairwell door and down the steps back to their floor.
Ralph and Andy were definitely up for it. They set about recruiting others as Jon, Jay, and Mike headed out to check on decorations and costs. They had agreed signs would be used and posted on the girl's bulletin board and all over the halls to announce the haunted house for Saturday. The guys hoped to get some idea of how the girls felt about the idea before sinking any money into it.
By the close of classes on Friday, things were coming together big time. The hurried up signs printed off someone's computer using scary graphics had seemed to work. Rumor had it the girls were up for it, even excited by the idea.
Ten more guys from the hall had agreed to help and participate. Naturally, some of the guys thought it wouldn't work. Others had other plans or were going away. The guys felt they could pull it off with fourteen of them involved. Twenty bucks a piece, would give them $280 for decorations and masks. They had discovered rentals would be too expensive except maybe one or two for the big finale at the end or in the bathroom. The decorations they had found fairly cheap if they bought in bulk. One of the store owners agreed to sell them spider webbing cheap if they bought a whole case which they did.
