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Chapter One
Contorted Reality
"Please Helaina, it's the first time they've ever opened a haunted house in Rhoane. Please, please, please say you'll go with me and afterward we'll go to Niks' for his Haunted Hallows Bash. Pu-lease."
Keilie begs grabbing my hands. Rolling my eyes I pull away and stand sighing. "Then we 'd better go costume shopping seeing as the party 's tonight. " Keilie lets loose an ear splitting scream as she leaps into the air and takes off down the hallway of our apartment.
"Get ready cause we 're going now. I 've had my eye on our costumes since last Halloween. " I chuckle slinging my messenger bag over my shoulder and pulling on my boots I wait by the door.
A few moments later Keilie comes bounding out of her room and out the door singing her own remix to 'for he 's a jolly good fellow '.
"For we 're going Halloween hunting, for we 're going Halloween hunting, for we 're going Halloween hun-ting and we 'll give all the kiddies a fright. "
She stops glancing at my feet. "Wear those cute heels I got you. " I raise my eyebrows and frown. Sighing she shrugs continuing her song. Shaking my head I lock the door and follow her to her car humming along with her.
We sing her new song all the way to the Haunted Avenue and right up to the door of the store ignoring all the stares from passerby.
Entering the store we are greeted by the scent of baked pumpkin and cinnamon and the soft sound of classical music mainly done by piano and violin.
Keilie and I walk over to the library section and greet Nikolai Stone our friend and cohort in mismanaged adulthood. "Sup Nik. " We say in unison, he looks up and smiles walking around the counter he bows.
"How are thee maidens on this most joyous day? "
Keilie and I smile at one another before we curtsied and reply "We are fine my good man. We trust thee is well? " Keilie nodded in agreement. The three of us stared at one another before bursting into a gut wrenching round of laughter.
A girl looks over her book a shushes us causing Nik to spin around.
"You do not shush your librarian young lady, the librarian shushes you. "
Nik smiled warmly at the girl causing her to blush and hide behind her book never resurfacing to correct us again. Keilie and I giggle as Nikolai turns back to us.
"You know, you need to stop doing that you 're gonna end up causing the entire womankind to melt and then where will you be? "
He smiles showing his beautifully white teeth. "With you guys on a hillside laughing it up. " We again laugh. "True, true. "
Keilie says wiping her eyes. "Anyway what are you two demons doing here in this nice, bright, happily glowing establishment? "
Keilie and I smirk looking around Haunted Avenue, basking in the glory of the gorgeously dark Gothic-Victorian inspired structure, from the wooden beams to the black cherry hardwood floors and wrought iron railings this place screams vampires only.
"We are on a mission to find costumes for the new haunted house and your bash. " Nik nodded turning to Keilie. "I assume you 're taking her to the ones you 've had your eye on? "
