The Lonely Hearts Club

Chapter 67: Halloween Party (Bree)

Is Hades a little messed up? Yes. But I can't find it in my heart to dislike him for it.

Did he shoot up my place of work? Yes, he did.

But he waited until I wasn't in the building and he only did it because he wanted better security to ensure my safety.

I wish I could hate him for it, but it's nice to be cared about.

"Do I look sexy in this?" Savvy asks emerging from the changing rooms in tiny pink lingerie.

Tonight is the Halloween party that everyone wants me to go to, and neither Savvy, Lana, Coco, or I have costumes so we decided to find them today.

Terrible planning? Potentially.

"The sexiest," Lana says.

"Sexy enough that Nicks will have his jaw on the floor?"

"Yes, now what exactly are you going as again?" Lana asks.

"A flamingo, obviously." She says, examining her body in the mirror.

Coco has decided on a green fairy costume, Lana on a red vampire costume, me...I don't know what I'm going as just yet.

"Alright, three down, one to go," Coco turns to look at me. "Any ideas what you want to be Bree?"

"No," I admit, shuffling on the velvet stool.

"STOP! I HAVE THE BEST IDEA!" Savvy says.

"What is it?" I ask.

"The best idea ever, Hades is going to go into shock when he sees you." She smirks.

*A few hours later*

Lana drives us to Malice, music blasting from her car speakers. We spent ages getting helping each other get ready and it paid off.

"Does my makeup look okay?" Lana asks us.

She was the designated makeup artist and spent too long on everyone else's so she had to rush her own.

Her face is ghostly pale, she has a black smokey eye, red lipstick, and carved cheekbones.

Her dress is black, the bodice is tightly fitted to her body, but the sleeves are loose and ruffled and her skirt flares out behind her, her shoes are black laced stilettos. I painted vampire bite marks on her neck.

"It looks amazing," Coco promises. She's wearing a lace green dress with flowers sewn into the fabric (something she did herself), and flower anklets and I painted vines and flowers all over her unexposed skin.

When we get to Malice, I start to feel sick. Getting ready is extremely different from actually going to the event you were getting ready for.

Apparently, it'll be just us for an hour, then other people are going to arrive. I start to regret the shots I did with Savvy before we left.

I hide behind Coco as we walk into the building, extremely worried about my costume.

What if Hades thinks what I'm wearing is stupid? No, I shouldn't think things like that.

Malice has been transformed, I showed Lana pictures of the Art Gallery and she basically replicated it, adding more decorations and lights that I didn't think were possible.

"You can't wear stuff like that when we're not talking, Sav," Nicks says, looking Savvy up and down.

She's dyed her hair platinum blonde and has it in a high ponytail, wearing nothing but her...flamingo costume and thigh-high pink boots. He on the other hand is wearing a flamingo onesie.