Tell no one - Paddy Holland

Chapter 5

Warnings: swearing, mentions of alcohol, and mild fist fighting

Halloween!

Now normally I'm not super excited for Halloween. I'm in high school so I've kinda outgrown trick-or-treating, but this year, I got invited to a Halloween party.

Ella and her twin brother Caleb were throwing a party at their house with a lot of girls from my school and a lot of boys from Caleb's school.

Ella's parents are super chill so they kinda just let the kids do whatever. On this weekend it was Ella's parents' anniversary so they were away for the weekend.

Ella and I had been talking about the party for several weeks now, but we still hadn't figured out our costumes.(We had a running tradition where we did matching costumes.)

We had been brainstorming ideas for weeks now and still couldn't come up with what we wanted to do.

Then, in the middle of science class, I got an epiphany.

I sent a text to Ella who was sitting across the room.

                    🥳💕🔥Ella🔥💕🥳

Me:
ELLA!! I GOT IT!

Ella:
WHAT?!?

Me:
SPACE GIRLS FOR HALLOWEEN!! 🪐🚀🛸

Ella:
OMG GENUIS!

                          ~end of texts~

We didn't pay attention at all for the rest of the day and spent the remaining hours of school planning our costume.

The days till Halloween flew by and our costume came together perfectly.

Finally it was Saturday October 31st. Halloween!!

Tom has insisted on driving me to the party because my parents were out of town for the weekend.

Around 5 pm Tom drove me to Ella's. The plan was for me to spend the night at her place and Tom would drive me home in the morning.

I got out of the car with my bag and costume and turned to Tom.

"Love you, thanks for driving me" I said.

"'Course! Just call me if you wanna come home tonight instead."

I smiled "I will"

I turned to leave but he yelled back "no drinking, no drugs, no sex"

I laughed my head off and nodded, opening the door and running in to meet my best friend.

"Honey, I'm home" I yelled walking in.

She squealed and ran over to me hugging me.

Her house was huge, and a little ill-fitting for New York City, but Ella's family was rich as hell. Their house was two mansions combined and basically everyone on the east side stared as they walked by. It was beautiful.

Ella and I were still dramatically hugging when her twin Caleb walked by.

"Sup loser" he called as he walked by.

Ella and I finally broke away.

"Always a pleasure Caleb" I yelled back.

He chuckled.

Caleb and I were always very sarcastic with each other since I was around a lot.

Ella and I got ready for the party and finally put on our costumes.