Costume Party

"Well I don't think pirates wore t-shirts and denim. What if we did a five minute challenge to see who can come up with the best buccaneer look?"

Tibby explodes. "Five minutes! It would take me that long just to look at my..."

"That's what makes it a challenge, right? Are you a scaredy cat that thinks you can't cut it?" Ashley sticks her tongue out at Tibby while still holding your hand and leaning behind you.

"Oh, it's ON! John, are you going to time this?"

"Time it!? I have to get ready too. Wait a second and I'll set my phone for five minutes. Anabelle, can you do the same? We'll start the timers when we're all at our apartment doors so that you don't lose time."

Anabelle wastes no time heading to her apartment. She calls over her shoulder while walking, "Does any pet want to get ready with me?" She arrives and pulls out her phone and starts tapping. She can see that the pets both have their hands on your apartment door. "Ready. Set. Go."

The door gets pushed open and both girls try getting in at the same time. Tibby runs straight for the bedroom door while Ashley runs into the bathroom door. You saunter into your apartment and close the door. Sure enough, by the time you reach the bedroom, the bed has a collection of clothes thrown on it already. Tibby is moving her arms so fast she looks like a windmill. Meanwhile Ashley has stripped down to her underwear and is kneeling by the dresser, digging into one of her drawers.

You decide to start working on accessories first and head for your desk. You pull out a piece of paper and begin folding it. What is a captain without a hat?

By the time you're done folding the paper, Tibby has decided on an outfit. Your little windmill has run into the bathroom, leaving rejected clothing scattered all over the bedroom. Of course, most of it doesn't stay in it's first landing spot because Ashley has been rummaging around too. Since she looks content with her selection, you slip into the closet hoping that your hat will remain safe from damage on the desk.

There's no way that you have shoes with a big buckle, so you decide to go barefoot like you've seen many pirates do. Besides, you'd only be taking them off as soon as the booty is discovered. Short pants...you could go with basketball shorts, but that looks too modern which is not the best buccaneer look. If you want to be the best, you have to look your best. You grab some cotton pants and roll up the bottom. The best part? An elastic waist so that you don't waste time getting undressed. The hardest choice will be which suitcoat to wear. Bluebeard was always seen wearing a coat. You settle on a sturdy looking navy coat. Since you don't have a frilly white shirt like pirates wore (and you don't want to ask the girls), you decide that a sexy buccaneer captain will go shirtless.

Ashley has taken a scarf and made it into a hat, the ends of fabric flowing down her back with her hair. Her white blouse is tied under her bust. It looks cute with the puffy short sleeves. It reveals her navel which is wiggling around as she shimmies a red miniskirt up over her butt to her waist. You could watch that show all day. It gets even better when she bends over to put her shoes on and the skirt flips up from the momentum.

You look at your phone. "Ninety seconds."

At your desk you saw the tube you bought to take rolled up design drawings to school. No way do you want to risk damaging that for playtime, but it sparks your imagination. You put on your hat and run to the recycling that is waiting to go to the bin. And there it is: the tube from a used up roll of paper towels. This should make an excellent blunderbuss. You pop it into your pocket, ready to be drawn when the judging starts.

Tibby pops out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom. You see that she's wearing the cat-scratch dress that you liked before. It doesn't look like anything on a ship so you raise an eyebrow as you look at her. "I've been marooned on an uninhabited island until you found me." She rushes into the closet again, bending down all the way to the bottom to grab what looks like the tallest black boots you've seen.