004. The Halloween Party

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To say that Olivia, Lina, and Caroline were three different types of people would be an understatement. If you couldn't tell by the way their outfits differed, or how they seemed like they popped out of a comic book page, then you were blind. But there was much more to the three than just their hairstyle choices and favourite lipstick colours.

They were young women, destined to grow up and change the world, even if they didn't know it yet. Every day they were learning more and more about everything, which was scary and exciting all at the same time.

"This skirt is already so short, anything else would be Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman before Richard Gere," Olivia cocks her head, watching as Caroline fumbles with the skirt from her River Vixen outfit.

"I don't even know why I packed this stupid thing," Caroline mumbles as she looks at herself in the full-length mirror in her room.

"You wanted to keep a piece of yourself from the life you lived before Greendale, like the freaking cliche you are," Lina says, her eyes never tearing away from the book she's reading. She's laying on Caroline's bed, arms strong enough from being on sports teams her whole life so she can manage to hold the book up for the hour that Olivia and Caroline were readying themselves for Roz's Halloween party. She's dressed as a vampire, complete with blood-red lipstick. Of course, when Caroline told her she looked like a total babe, Lina just shrugged and ended up in the situation she is now, reading The Great Gatsby.  "Oh, I'm sorry, was I supposed to go easy on her?"

Olivia, on the other hand, is actually dressed as a flapper girl as if she came out of that book herself. It was just an excuse to wear a short black wig, but she killed the look. "I don't know," Olivia kept talking, ignoring Lina's comment. "I think you're missing something," she has Caroline sit down on the chair at her desk, tying a long blue ribbon into her hair. "Let me do your makeup!"

"I don't know," Caroline nervously bites her lip. "Do I really need it?"

"Just let her put glitter on your face already so we can leave," Lina groans, earning a pillow to the face from Olivia.

"All slutty cheerleaders need glitter and red lipstick," she dives for the makeup bag she brought. "I promise I won't do too much. Besides, we want Harvey to be attracted to you like the pull side of a magnet," Olivia says.

"Who says we want Harvey to be attracted to me?" Caroline asks as Olivia already begins doing her face. "And I thought he was into Sabrina?"

Olivia sighs. "Yeah, he's pretty much had a puppy dog crush on her forever, but Sabrina never let him make a move. For some reason, she can't commit to any boy or girl, unless it's as a friend. Even then, not really. I should know."

"Wow, and I thought relationships were complicated at my old school," she says, and that's the last of that conversation. They were done quickly, as Caroline's makeup was the last thing they needed before the party. The three girls walked there alone, goosebumps growing on their arms from the chilly air.

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