Gemini

Friday, October 31st 7:18 a.m.
Wildomar, Home

**There's an extremely loud knock on their bedroom door that borders on pounding. It jars Lucas awake almost immediately, but the pounding keeps persisting.**

**Lucas** **He lets out an exaperated groan and then yells.** What!? **He sits up and rubs his eyes.**

**Yasmine**: **(Their sister) Yells through the door.** Mom says to get your asses out of bed or you're going to be late! **She pounds on the door again three more times, even louder.**

**Clara**: **Their mom can be heard muffled through the door.** I'm leaving for work. Yasmine, you'll have to take the twins to school.

**Yasmine**: **She lets out a sigh like she's offended.** WHAT?!**She can be heard stomping after their mother, her voice loud but muffled through the door.**

**Yuri**: **He exhales slowly, letting out a small cloud of smoke from his mouth that travels outside through the open window. He looks tired, his eyes open only slightly as he looks outside. The joint helps him ignore the loud noise coming from the bedroom door, it keeps him calm for this school morning.**

**Lucas**: I would say it's a bit early, but after the High Priestess pounded on the door with her ham-fingers I'm surprised you don't have two in your mouth. **He grabs some clothes from his closet and walks into the bathroom. After a five minute shower he steps back out, brushing his teeth.** You dressing up for school?

**Yuri**: **He joint is gone by the time Lucas finishes his shower. He turns to look back at his brother before looking down at the shorts he wore yesterday, which are on the floor in front of his bed. His "pajamas" consist of him wearing a plain black, faded out shirt with underwear.** It's too cold to go naked, right? **He hops off his bed and quickly puts the his shorts on before grabbing his backpack, holding the strap in his right hand as he heads downstairs.**

**Lucas**: If you don't have any clean clothes... **He stops, not wanting to lend him his own clothes and knowing Yuri will probably refuse anyway.** Well anyway... **He walks back into the bathroom and spits his toothpaste out. His voice can be heard from the bathroom.** I meant are you dressing up in costume.

**Yuri**: **He instantly pops his head back into their bedroom, despite it sounding like he already walked downstairs.** Costume?...What are we, five?**He walks back into the room, a smile going across his face as he thinks.** We didn't wear any costumes last year. What's different?

**Lucas**: Well there's supposed to be a party tonight after school. We didn't get invited, but that doesn't really matter does it? **He walks over to his desk and grabs his jacket, backpack, and skateboard.** Anyway, I hear it's a costume party, maybe some girls will be there. \*He walks out of the room acting like the party isn't a big deal.\*

**Yuri**: **He holds his arm out, blocking the doorway and stopping him from leaving.** Wait, wait. Girls? What girls?

**Lucas**: Dunno, we'll have to get the info at school. I don't even know where it is, someone said it might be up in the hills. **He slowly looks over to Yuri with sarcasm.** Though I'm pretty sure it isn't going to be a party consisting entirely of guys... Plus that senior last year... What was her name? Tracy? Whatever, the one that came to school in that bunny outfit and got suspended. That's what girls like her wear to Halloween parties. **He smirks slightly.**

**Yasmine**: **She yells up from the kitchen.** What the hell are you two doing?! Mom says I have to drive you so hurry up!

**Yuri**: **Their sister's voice makes him flinch slightly, like hearing nails on a chalkboard. He shakes his head a little, going downstairs before he has to hear it again.**

**Yasmine**: **She's sitting at the table eating cereal.** 'bout time. **She looks from Lucas to Yuri.** Didn't you wear that yesterday? **She takes a huge bite from her toast, crunching it loudly in her mouth.**

**Yuri**: **He drops his backpack beside the chair he usually sits at and opens the fridge, grabbing the milk and getting some cereal.** Probably. **He sits down and starts eating his lucky charms cereal.**

**Lucas**: **He goes to the pantry to get the fruit loops he normally eats in the morning. He slowly turns to look back at Yasmin.** Are you eating my cereal?

**Yasmine**: We were out of waffles. **She rolls her eyes as she looks at him.** Deal with it.

**Lucas**: I bought that with my own allowance. **He looks at her.** Mom said you're not supposed to eat our food that we buy ourselves!

**Yasmine**: Mom's not home. **She takes a bite from her toast.** And she won't be back until late tonight. Plus I have to drive you two to school. I'm taking your food as my fee for gas.

**Lucas**: **He walks up to her and looks around, snatching the box from behind her chair on the floor. He shakes it.** And it's empty! You ate TWO BOWLS of MY CEREAL?

**Yasmine**:**She stands up and walks to the kitchen sink.** Too sugary. **She throws the almost full bowl into the sink.** Let's go I have things to do today.

**Yuri**: **He reaches into his backpack.** Heads-up. **He throws him a fruit loops cereal bar before zipping his backpack back up and standing up.**

**Lucas**: **He grabs it out of the air, almost dropping it. He sighs and opens it, taking a bite.**

**Yasmine**: **She grabs her keys and purse from where she was sitting.** Let's go. **She heads for the door.**

**Yuri**: She really likes eating your food.

**Lucas**: Whatever... **After a moment he follows her out.** Not like mom's gonna do anything about it anyway.

**Yuri**: **He grabs his lucky charms cereal box and spits inside the bag, protecting it from any High Priestess raids, before quickly following Lucas outside to the car.**

**Later that day at lunch...**

**Lucas**: **He sits down at a small table beside one of the walls of a classroom. All he has is some chips and a Dr. Pepper.** The lines here are getting too long. You see that pizza line? Lunch'll be over by the time you get to the front of that...

**Yuri**: **He nods, half-paying attention as he checks out a girl walking by in a skirt.**

**Leena**: **A girl they've both known since 5th grade. She's pretty, but since they've known her for so long and they have history as friends, she seems to act aloof about the Twins, but Lucas can tell that she probably has a crush on at least one of them, but, at the same time he's actually too nervous to ask her out. She wears clothing that looks like goth-punk version of preppy school clothing. Because she sews her own clothes the popular girls in High School make fun of her behind her back, which is why she hangs out with them.** You guys hear about that party after school?

**Yuri**: Lucas told me about it this morning. Who's going?

**Leena**: Well I guess anybody who is anybody. **She shrugs.** Sounds annoying. Popular preppy bitches with a bunch of dumb jocks. I thought you guys got invited until Mark told me that you weren't.

**Lucas**: Did he say where it was?

**Leena**: Didn't care enough to ask. **She's eating a hot pocket of some kind.**

**Yuri**: Party or not I'm not going home tonight until She falls asleep.

**Lucas**: Why don't you ever go out and do... Anything fun at all? You just sit at home.

**Leena**: Because going to a giant party is, like, the worst trope. It's so expected, plus it's how you get into a lot of trouble... Besides, I have fun at home, I don't have to pretend to like idiots from school.

**Lucas**: Alright well... Whatever.

**Yuri**: **He sees a young nerdy student walk by with a paper half-box tray. Yuri walks forward as if about to leave and grabs the box before sucker punching him in the stomach.** Thanks, nerd.

**Student**: Hey-Aaaaugh.

**Yuri**: **He pats him on the back so he keeps walking. He steps back and stands beside Lucas, offering him the lunch.** Pizza?

**Lucas**: You always seem to keep me fed. **He realizes how awkward that sounds but doesn't show it. Acting like he said it on purpose.**

**Leena**: **She looks back and forth between the two of them.** Well I have drama next period so I gotta go.

**Yuri**: Wait, isn't Stacy in that class with you? Check if she's going to the party tonight...

**Leena**: **She sighs.** That's why I call it drama. **Her next period is actually P.E.** ...I guess I'll ask around. Just for you two. **She grabs what's left of her food and eats it as she walks away.**

**Later, just after school lets out...**

**Lucas**: **He's looking around for Yasmin's car, not knowing why he's even bothering since he knows she's not going to pick them up. He sees Leena getting into a minivan, but she's a distance away and he doesn't feel like yelling and asking for a ride. He sighs and walks over to the grass, waiting for Yuri.**

**A few minutes pass with no sign of him.\***

**Lucas**: **Steps on the back of his skateboard and flips it up into his hand. He walks over to the sidewalk and he's about to leave without his brother as the other students have already cleared out for the most part. He steps on his board before stopping and seeing Odie.**

**Odie**: **Real name is actually Brendan O'Dwyer, but people call him "Odie". He's their mutual best friend, being the guy who provides Yuri's weed and buy's Lucas's cigarettes. He has connections, knows the know, etc. He dresses in typical skater-guy clothing. A hat, hoodie, shorts, and Vans. All with some skater brand name on them. He has shoulder-length messy hair and is a few inches taller than them despite being a year younger. He takes after most of Yuri's habits, smoking weed, wearing the same clothing multiple days in a row, etc.** Hey!

**Lucas**: Where have you been the last few days?

**Odie**: Family vacation.

**Lucas**: In fall?

**Odie**: **He shrugs.** Where were you guys at lunch?

**Lucas**: **He just looks at him sarcastically.** The same fucking place we always are?

**Odie**: Oh.

**Yuri**: **He jumps out of the tree that Lucas was standing under and lands on the grass near the sidewalk behind his brother.** Why? You got anything for me?

**Odie**: Got an invite so some bitchin party tonight.

**Lucas**: **He just looks at Yuri.** I was going to leave without you.

**Yuri**: I would've secretly followed, like a guardian angel... Or a murderous stalker.

**Lucas**: That feeds me, by the way, what's for dinner? **He smirks.**

**Odie**: Did you guys not hear about the party invite?

**Yuri**: I'm not going unless Stacy's gonna be there.

**Odie**: Stacy is going. Hanna is going. Alexis is going. Heard that Leena might even be there.

**Lucas**: She said she wasn't going.

**Odie**: Even she won't want to miss this one.

**Yuri**: **He looks at Lucas.** Are you going?

**Lucas**: I said I wanted to go this morning? What the hell else would we do tonight?

**Odie**: Hand out candy?

**Lucas**: The High Priestess can deal.

**Yuri**: Then we're all going...but you still haven't told us where this party is.

**Odie**: Got directions. It's up Baxter, that road that runs by the housing track. In the mountains.

**Lucas**: That's vague.

**Odie**: Just let me deal with the location. You guys need to go home and get dressed.

**Lucas**: So it does require a costume then.

**Odie**: It's Halloween, why wouldn't it? You know sometimes I think I'm smarter than you Lucas, cuz you ask a lotta dumb questions.

**Yuri**:**He unstraps his skateboard from his backpack.** We'll be there, just make sure you have the right place. I don't wanna end up in some abandoned house again.

**Lucas**: Oh yeah, can you gives us a ride? Our sister isn't going to be here any time soon.

**Odie**: **He rubs his chink as he mockingly thinks about it.** I guessssssssss I could.

**Yuri**: Lucas. Bro. I already unstrapped my skateboard. Don't be so lazy. **He drops it on the hard sidewalk and rides up the path.**

**Lucas**: Guess we're skating home... **He watches Yuri skate off up the sidewalk.**

**Odie**: I have to pick up the booze and some weed anyway.

**Lucas**: Grab me some cigs too, I haven't had any since you... "Went on vacation".

**Odie**: Yeah no freebies this time, you gotta pay up.

**Lucas**: **He pulls a few dollars out of his wallet.** This is all I got.

**Odie**: Alright. **He turns and starts walking away.** I'll swing around your guy's house at 5:30 sharp!

**Later that night...**

**Lucas**: **He's got his skeleton makeup on, wearing his nicer leather jacket.** Odie said he'd be here... **He looks at his watch, which says 6:13.**

**Yasmine**: You going on a date with your boyfriend tonight?

**Lucas**: Shouldn't you be out scooping up children and leading them back to your gingerbread house in the woods?

**Yasmine**: **The doorbell rings.** Going out. You two better hand out the candy mom bought. **She grabs one of the unopened bags and walks out the front door.**

**Yuri**: **He walks downstairs, wearing glow in the dark skeleton gloves with an open hoodie with a shirt underneath that also has a glow in the dark skeletal torso underneath.** How do I look?

**Lucas**: **He just holds up one of his hands.** I thought you were going to be a zombie or something.

**Yuri**: Bro, I'm not putting on makeup...besides this was the cheapest thing I could find. **He looks around.** Where's...?

**Lucas**: The Priestess left with some other bitches and Odie isn't here yet.

**Yuri**: Call him. **He grabs the phone in the living room and tosses it to him.** I gotta go to the bathroom real quick.

**Lucas**: **He dials Odie's number. It rings a few times, his mom picking up.**

**Odie's Mom**: Hello?

**Lucas**: Misses O'Dwyer? Is Odie there?

**Odie's Mom**: Oh you just missed him. Brenden is going to a study group tonight.

**Lucas**: **He rolls his eyes, having no idea how he gets his parents to believe this shit.** ...Umm... Yeah he was supposed to pick us up... Like a half hour ago.

**Odie's Mom**: Well he should be there in a few minutes then. Talk to you later Yuri. **She hangs up.**

**Lucas**: **He sighs and puts the phone back.** Odie's gonna be here in a few minutes "Lucas". **Every time someone mistakes him for his twin he calls Yuri by his own name.**

**Yuri**: **He comes back downstairs.** Fuck wearing gloves, look what else I got. **He no longer has a hoodie on and instead of gloves he has temporary tattoos on his arms and hands. He turns the lights off and they immediately start glowing blue in the dark. Parts of his face light up too from the tattoo.**

**Lucas**: More original... Kind of. **The doorbell rings.** That's probably Odie let's go.

**Yuri**: **He follows Lucas out of the door, he's about to close it behind him when he sees the bowl of candy by the door. He takes it and pours it into his backpack before leaving.**