.....and saw an August clown looking back.
Aaron's face was a pale, almost flesh colored pink with whit ovals arounds his eyes and a big white muzzle surrounding his mouth. His mouth was fixed in a wide silly grin and his lower lip was black running halfway down his chin and ending on each side with big tiny black circles that made his mouth look like it was open. His eyes were outlined in blue and his cheeks were blushed with soft red with three black freckles. And the biggest surpise was his hair.
As a kid, Aaron had seen his father lose his hair. Now his own was a thick, curly mass of blue surrounding his ears and running to the back of his head, around a bare, smooth pink pate. 'Oh no, I'm bald!'
Taking the white glove of his hand, Aaron saw it was the same pink as his face and each nail was a the same blue as his hair. He wiggled his toes and could feel they had grown to match his oversized shoes. Instinctively Aaron guessed that his tonsils would be colored like the ones on his hand.
Aaron headed toward his locker, as he walked down the hallway he saw the other students and some other teachers laughing talking and acting like-well like clowns. Their sentences all seemed to be punctuated with guffaws and giggles, they commonly used exaggerated body language, and honked their noses to emphasize words.
He also notices something about the way they all dressed. Rack student wore the blue uniform blazer both other their clothing varied but it a way that complimented the blazer-the facings were typically buttoned back and matched whatever style of pants each clown was wearing, or their bow tie, tie or shoes, or in the girls' caes their bloomers. One auguste student's shirt suddenly rolled up to travel the tie-dyed undershirt he wore underneath.
Aaron found his locker, got his books for homeroom and started his way when suddenly two gloved hands placed themselves over his eyes. "Aaron! I knew you'd look good as a clown, heheyaha!" One hand came off his eye and squeezed Aaron's nose. HONK! "It's so good to see you, heheyaha, You're gonna love it hear, heheyaha, being a clown is so awesome, heheyaha." Honk!
Despite the giggles and goofy lilt Aaron recognized Rita's voice. He turned around and saw....