- Chapter Sixteen

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The purple dress splayed out on her bed made Harper smile. She was a huge sucker for Halloween, she loved to dress up and come up with costumes. Her outing with Spencer the other night had inspired her, and she'd ordered a Rapunzel dress online.

It arrived just in time, only a few days before Spencer's birthday and the early Halloween party. She was still smiling as she opened the door to him.

"Hey!"

He smiled back shyly, hands in his pockets again. "Hi, Harper."

She'd asked him to come over to show him her costume. She was oddly nervous, and trying to anticipate how the team would welcome her into a more casual environment.

She beckoned him over to the living room, he followed - looking around for Boba.

Turning around, Harper grinned, "Alright, I need you to tell me if my costume is okay."

He chuckled, "Okay in what sense?"

"I don't know – appropriate? Not too much? The team won't hate it?"

He laughed again. "Harper - Garcia is hosting it. As a matter of fact, we work with Garcia – I doubt anything will be too much."

She ignored him, running to her bedroom and returning with the dress and holding it up for him.

He tilted his head, "A fairy?"

"Fairy- What? No! It's Rapunzel!"

She lifted it up higher and shook the dress slightly as if that would make it clearer.

Spencer's face scrunched up as he tried to follow along. "Oh, okay! But aren't you missing the most important part? The hair."

Harper looked at him incredulously, "No, I'm her at the end of the movie, when her hair is short?" At his blank stare, she opened her mouth in surprise,

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