Halloween Party // l.h

5

" Where are we going?"

" There is a tree house up there, you can't just ignore that," I replied as I pulled him in the direction of the tree.

" We are going up there?" he asked looking up at the old wooden structure in the tree.

" Yeah of course" I replied, I turned to face him once we got to the ladder that lead up to the treehouse.

" Holy fuck, you are tall" I said noticing the height of this guy. He just shrugged, he must get it all the time.

" It must be so annoying having like everyone tell you that you are so tall, but dam you are like a tree" I said, I just had to get that out.

" I know, hurry up and climb the tree" the ninja turtle said using hand gestures towards the ladder.

" What?" I spat and began giggling, he started shaking his head and cracked a smile.

" I meant climb the tree to get to the tree house" he said pointing up the ladder.

" Sure you did" I smiled and began climbing up the ladder, the ninja turtle following behind me.

" Nice view" he commented, I could hear the smirk in his voice.

" Your being an ass"

" I believe it's the other way around"

" You really have the worst flirting skills ever" I said as I crawled inside the confined space of the tree house. It's really dark in here, the lighting from the house is the only thing providing the slightest

" Woah it's dark in here," Leo said coming in behind me and sitting in the opposite corner, " and who said I was flirting?" he added.

" Oh so you tell all people they have nice asses and casually slip sexual innuendos into all conversations," I said raising an eyebrow.

" What can I say? you just bring out the flirt in me" he smiled.

" Come sit here" I said patting the space next to me, he shuffled over and sat quite close.

" Mind if I smoke?" I asked him pulling out my pack of cigarettes

" Smoking is bad for you, you shouldn't do it" Leonardo educated me.

" I know, but it just gets addicting" I said twirling the unlit cigarette between my fingers.

" Go on, smoke it" he nudged me.

" I'm not proud of it, I want to quit, its hard" I told him, I don't like being a smoker or being known as a smoker either.

" I get it, I got really addicted to Pokémon cards once...well still am" he smiled.

" Your such a dork you know" I giggled.

" You never explained your costume to me, why grunge zombie? why not just a zombie?" the ninja turtle asked.

" It's a metaphor" I said as I put my cigarette in between my lips.

" Did you seriously just do that?" he chuckled.

" Do what?" I asked confused.

" Have you never seen The Fault in Our Stars or read it?" Leo said so shocked.

" Nope" I shrugged.

" Wow.. you need to..uh.. just continue what you were saying" Leonardo stuttered waving the subject off.

" Well, I'm representing grunge, as in the music style, but the music then inspired the fashion, so I'm dressed in the fashion" I said before lighting the cigarette between my lips. " And I'm also a zombie, and zombies are un dead, zombies will never die. So the metaphor is ' grunge will never die' " I explained.

" Wow that is, probably the coolest Halloween costume concept ever" he complimented me.

" Thanks I thought of it myself, I like dressing up and making a costume, it's a form of self expression" I smiled.

" Do you think I am expressing myself well in this?" ninja turtle asked waving his hand over his body.

" I can't believe you actually still have the mask on, I don't even know what you look like" I chuckled then took a drag from my cigarette.

" What's life without a little mystery" he quoted me from earlier.

" This tree house isn't as fun as I thought it would be" I sighed and took a drag from my cigarette.

" Yeah it's just dark and creepy, probably some spiders" Leonardo said looking around.

" Ok let's get out of here" I said after hearing spiders, I put out my almost finished cigarette and flicked it out of the tree house.

" Are you afraid of spiders?" Leo asked as I began to climb down the ladder at a quick pace.

" No, it's just boring up there" I replied unconvincingly as he began to follow me down.

" You are!" he exclaimed as we ended up on the ground.

" Yeah, well everyone is afraid of something and spiders aren't very friendly" I argued my case, he smiled down at me.

" What do you wanna do? this party is just no fun for me" I sighed running my fingers through my messy hair.

" You could just go home" the ninja turtle suggested.

" Do you?"

" What?" he asked confused.

" Do you want to come to my place? we could watch a movie or something" I said awkwardly.

" Really?" he said as a big smile spread across his face.

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a/n

In case you haven't seen or read The Fault in Our Stars, Gus puts an unlit cigarette in his mouth as a metaphor that it can't kill him. If you live under a rock and need to ask a question about this just ask, this will probably be the last TFIOS reference throughout the book, I just couldn't resist :)

Things are about to escalate ;)

Enjoy!

- lexie xx