“Ugh. I hate Halloween.” He sighs, flopping backwards.
“What!” I gasp. “You never told me that. If you hated Halloween, why did you agree to come out with me tonight?”
He sits up again and shrugs. “Because you seemed excited and I didn’t want to burst your bubble.”
“Blake. If you’re not comfortable–”
“We’re going,” he says firmly.
“Why don’t you like Halloween?”
He grabs the coffee and takes a sip before looking down at the cup. “Because it was always a day where people hung out and enjoyed it with their friends.” He shrugs. “Nina would always go out with hers, dressed up and come back saying how much fun it was, while I was at home handing out candy.”
“Blake.”
“Nope. We’re not pitying me today. Today is different. I’m going to my first Halloween party and we’re going to dress up, drink, dance, the whole nine yards.”
“Yeah?” An excited smile forms on my lips. “All of it?”
His brows pull together. “Oh god. I don’t know if I like that look.”
“How do you feel about matching costumes?” My grin grows.
***
“I feel stupid,” Blake mutters as we walk towards the football house.
“You look awesome. It was like that costume was made for you. You already had the black hair.”
“Yeah, but this straw hat looks stupid on me,” he grumbles, glaring at me like he wants my head to explode.
I chuckle. “Stop saying stupid. You wanna know what's stupid? A gay man dressing up as a character who is literally obsessed with women and gets so horny for them he gets a nosebleed, because of the dirty things he wants to do to them.”
I wanted to pick costumes of something both Blake and I liked. The whole super hero thing is overdone, so I thought why not go as people from our favorite anime.
Blake is Luffy and I went as Sanji. Thought it would be easiest as we each share the same hair color as the characters we’re dressed up as.
“Yeah, but at least he's an attractive man. My character is a boy,” he deadpans.
“Not a kid, a teenager. Not far off from your age. Stop overthinking it.” I wrap my arm around his shoulders. “I can assure you, there will be people here with much more stupid costumes than ours. Not saying ours are stupid, because they’re not.”
“If you say so.”
He’s an extra angry kitten tonight. I’m not sure if it’s because that's who he is, or if he’s really not happy to be here.
I tried to get him to agree to do something else, but he insisted on going to the party. As soon as he looks like he’s not having a good time, we’re out of here.
“Let’s go find the girls. Lexie texted me that everyone is here. Even Ellie and her guys, minus Theo. He stayed home with the kids. It would be weird to have the dean of the school here.”
“Yeah. That would be weird.”
“We’re going to have fun. Just us and our friends, ignore everyone else. Also, I do have good news!”
“Yeah, what's that?” He looks up at me with a suspicious glint in his eyes.
“Mickey and some of the other guys on the team are skipping the party and going up to Wicker’s point to drink and do stupid shit.” I roll my eyes. “Dumb for them, great for us.”
That seems to bring a bit of a perk back into him. “Good.” He nods.
