Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
it's alive
"SEXY VAMPIRE? REALLY?" Athena holds up the costume Caroline brought her in disbelief, but the blonde girl is just grinning.
"Of course! You'll put the sexy in vampire." Caroline throws her witch costume on Athena's bed and then sits on the cushioned bench at the end of it.
Athena furrows her eyebrows at Caroline. "That doesn't make sense. And besides, I wasn't even gonna go to this party considering I hate literally everyone we go to school with."
"Um, no, you have to go!" Caroline exclaims her face one of scandal at the thought of Athena ditching. "I don't wanna show up alone like a loser."
Athena looks at the costume Caroline brought for her to wear to the Halloween party tonight. She wasn't going to go at all, as she'd rather go to the theater's season-special showing of Goosebumps. She could've invited Stefan.
It was hysterically comical, the costume. It was black and red, and somewhat Victorian-looking in style, with its corset design that made the poofy skirt look even poofier, if possible. There was a cape, too, with a Dracula-like collar that popped up around her neck and framed her head. There were even black, fishnet tights to go with it, and she had to physically restrain herself from laughing.
"Vampires don't dress like this, Care," She snorts, looking at the girl through the reflection in her mirror.
"Vampires are inherently sexy, Athena. They're all dark and broody, and of course, the blood."
Athena was really trying not to laugh, but it seemed like the universe was just trying to make life harder for her the longer Caroline went on. If only she knew that vampires were just broody teenagers and temperamental adults with murderous tendencies.
"Fine," Athena sighs in defeat, rolling her eyes when Caroline claps excitedly. "But I plan on getting extremely drunk off of spiked punch because there's no way I'm doing this sober."
──────
She's found herself sitting on top of a school bus, vaguely wondering how she's going to get down when Vicki and Jeremy come rushing out of the same door she exited through nearly twenty minutes ago.
Athena frowns in disgust when they start making out, but her interest is piqued when she hears Jeremy's groan of pain and sees Vicki drinking the blood she'd drawn from his neck.
"Okay," She mutters to herself, looking over the edge of the school bus warily. "Time to get down."
She gently takes her ridiculous heeled boots off that she wore with her costume, and sets them down next to her. "It's like, ten feet. You can do this. Just jump down, and land on your feet, it'll be fine."
Athena is only slightly aware that she's talking to herself when she startles out of her one-sided conversation and sees Elena go flying backward onto a palette of trash, screaming out in panic.
