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20: Party Crashers

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20: Party Crashers

Things between Emmett and I almost changed. I didn't see him again until Monday at school. It was a calm day, as if our discussion hadn't happened.

But it had.

He looked at me differently. It wasn't in a bad way, though. It was as if, now that things were on the table, he was being more open. He didn't hide the sparkle in his eye when he was with me.

I noticed. I know he noticed that I didn't hold back, either.

"You need an outfit for my party," he said. I was in his kitchen, in his house for the first time ever. "A Halloween costume."

"So it's a costume party?"

"Yep." He grinned. I looked around, trying to think of a costume. He gasped, holding up his index finger. "Forrest Gump and Jenny. We should do that."

"Are we a couple?" I asked with a smirk. "Because unless we are magically dating, now, no couples costumes."

He scoffed. "They were hardly a couple."

"They fell in love!"

"But they basically hooked up once, she got pregnant, and then she left and met him years later with his kid! That's hardly being a couple."

"Well, it would be a couples costume. Besides, even if we did just do it to goof off, your fan girls would come after me thinking that we were a thing."

"Fan girls?"

"If you haven't noticed, you're probably the hottest boy at the school. If people started thinking we were dating, I would have a bunch of rabid Emmett fans coming after me."

"Did you just call me hot?" He gave me a smirk, one only Emmett could make, and I huffed.

"It's a fact, not a compliment."

"So you think I'm attractive," he said with a grin.

"Not 'I think.' You just are. It's a fact, not an opinion."

"It is an opinion. Others may not think I'm hot. Although I could never understand why."

"Maybe they can't see past your ego," I muttered, rolling my eyes. "Maybe if we were going to do some dumb costume, I'd be beauty and you'd be the beast. You wouldn't even have to dress up."

"Ha. Funny, coming from someone who called me hot a few seconds ago," he said with a grin. "Maybe you could be a doctor or something. Don't you want to be that when you grow up?"

"That's lame, though." He sighed and nodded. "How about me, you, Selena, J.P.—"

"J.P.?"

"Oh, they are definitely being set up. Selena is getting a taste of her own medicine," I said. Emmett grinned and nodded. "The four of us could dress up like the people from The Purge. It's a cool costume idea."

"And the masks are easy to get. Alright. Let's go. You can wear a white T-shirt with red on it like blood and the mask."

We went to a Halloween costume store and easily found four masks. I was on the phone with Selena, while she squealed endlessly about the idea. I did not tell her, however, about J.P. After I got off the phone with her, I called J.P. myself.

"Hey," I said uncertainly.

"Louise?" he asked.

"I need you to dress up like a character from The Purge and come to Emmett's party tomorrow night because me and Emmett and Selena are dressing up like that and it'll be a cute idea and—"