*Owens POV*

I wake up on my stomach.  My head uncomfortably positioned to the side, facing my wall.  My cheek is squished against my sheets.

Groaning, I lift up my head and look to the side to see Luna hanging halfway off the bed.

My eyebrows furrow together.  When the fuck did she get here?

Oh wait.

Her legs are spread over my back since she somehow ended up sideways.

"Luna." I whisper as I rub my puffy eyes.

Suddenly she jolts awake and falls off the bed completely. Making a thump noise when she hits the hardwood floor.

"Are you okay?" I quickly lean over to see her face down on the floor, her legs and arms spread apart.

When she stands up I see that her face is covered in a light layer of sweat, her cheeks are flushed, and her hair is extremely frizzy. One of her boobs is on the verge of flashing me.

"I had a dream." She swallows thickly.  "I was being chased by a stray cat in a video game. Then suddenly I fell in a shallow puddle and drowned, then the cat ate me whole." Her breaths are heavy, causing her chest to rise and fall rapidly.

I'm sitting up now, looking at her and wondering if her mother dropped her on her head when she was a baby.

She wipes her forehead with the back of her hand and then takes a step forward and collapses on top of me.

I place my hand on her back. I feel her heart racing against my chest.

"Um...it's almost ten." I whisper. This girl loves hugging.

She yawns and then suddenly sits back up immediately once again.

"Shit." She pushes herself off of my lap and scrambles to put on her beat up old converse.

I fight my smile when I see her Disney princess socks.  Cinderella's face looks fucked up.

After putting on her sneakers she looks for her phone and grabs it once she sees it on the nightstand. She also grabs her glasses and perches them on top of her nose.

When walking to the door she trips again.

This is girl is extremely disorientated.

"Fuck!" She whisper yells when she falls.

I fake cough to try to cover my laugh.

When she stands back up she pushes her hair out of her face.

She looks cute with her face all flushed.

When she starts to head for my door I call out to her. "Wait! Don't go that way. My parents are probably awake and they're gonna think...stuff happened, so go out a different way." I shove the covers off me and also stand up.

Flora is asleep on the floor next to me.

"Like where?" She looks around my room, crossing her arms over her chest, thinking of an escape plan.

"Just go onto the small roof thing outside my window and then jump onto the grass. Then just run home." I suggest.

I would drive her but then my parents will know that a girl slept over...and even if I say that Luna and I are just friends, they won't believe me.

Then they'll give me the sex talk and all that shit.

Even though I'm about to be a legal adult soon and know how sex works.

"Thanks." She tiredly walks over to me and gives me a quick hug. I awkwardly pat her lower back.

"I'll see you later dude." She says to me as she leans down and gives Flora a kiss on the head.  "Bye Flora!"

I take a seat back down on my bed.

Once she is halfway out the window she looks back at me.

"By the way, Levina texted me yesterday saying that she is dragging us to a halloween party on Friday. You should dress up as a sexy nurse!" She flashes me an over dramatic wink jokingly before jumping out the window and jumping onto the grass below without any hesitation.

Concern clouds over me and I run towards the window to look out.

I hear her grunt when she hits the ground, except she quickly stands back up and starts running.

As I watch her continue running she suddenly trips again.  She immediately gets up and attempts to start running again but plummets right back to the ground.

What the fuck is wrong with her?

I can't stop myself from snorting.

She gets up and pushes her hair out of her face before running once again as if a lion is chasing her for dinner.

I saunter back to my bed, amused at her inability to not fall.

A party.

I've been to a few before.  They're boring.  Just people smoking, drinking, fucking, and what not.

Since this is a halloween party that means I have to wear a costume, I'm guessing?

I know that if I don't wear a costume then Luna and Levina will have my head on a pitch fork.  Well, that's a little dramatic, but I expect nothing less from the two.

I loathe dressing up.

Can't I just dress up as myself?  I could go as Owen Laurent for halloween.

I sigh in dread.

My back hits the soft bed as I fall backwards.

~

"Okay. So, what are your costume ideas?" Levina claps her hands together to gain our attention.

Its Thursday, which means that the halloween party is now tomorrow.

There is no way of getting out of this, so I just comply and listen to her babble.

"Okay! So, Luna." She turns to Luna.

She is currently shyly chewing on a grape.

"You're going to come to my house and I'm going to dress you up for the party." Levina has a mischievous look on her face.

Luna's dark brown eyes light up.

"Oh, sounds fun!" She smiles brightly at her.

Levina abruptly spins in her seat to face me since we are sitting adjacent to eachother.

"You.  I'm picking your costume too." She points her mid-length pink acrylic nail at me.

"What? No." I shake my head.  Knowing her she'll end up dressing me as a fucking frog or some shit.

"Oh so you have a costume picked out already?" She looks at me, already knowing the answer.

I go quiet before stressfully throw a chip in my mouth.

"Mhm-hm." I see her purse her lips and spin back forward to face Luna who is sitting opposite to us.  She is still quietly eating grapes.

"Okay.  So it's settled, both of you.  My house.  After school."

~

"Stay still dammit!" Levina holds the top of my head with her hand and intently strokes the brush on my cheek.

"It tickles." I try to push her away for the thousandth time.

"I don't give a fuck.  We aren't gonna show up with you looking all boring and shit!" She spins the brush around in her fingers and pretends to stab me with it, obviously fed up.

I roll my eyes.

"Just let me finish painting your face." She huffs out an annoyed breath and grabs the top of my head again, holding it in place as she continues painting.

I scrunch up my nose from the ticklish feeling of the brush.

"I'm gonna fucking slap you." She pauses for a second and purses her lips.

"Do it." I say plainly.

Her hand hits my cheek.

"What the fuck?" I hold my face.

"What? You said to slap you?" She looks actually confused.

"I was kidding." I pinch my nose.

"Oh..." I can tell she is trying not to laugh when she begins painting again.

About ten minutes pass until she finally makes me stand up from her bed, dragging me to her vanity mirror.

She made my face look like a skeleton.

Not going to lie, it looks kind of cool.  I didn't know she had somewhat of an artistic talent.

I lift my fingers to touch the face paint but she quickly hits my hand away.

"Don't touch! You'll ruin it!" She exasperates.

I throw my hands up in surrender.

"Do I have to change or something? I'm wearing all black." A black hoodie, black baggy jeans, and plain converse.

Boring, I know.  I don't really care to dress up.

"Not necessary. It looks good with all black clothing. Now get out because I need to help Luna dress up and do her makeup." She shoo's me out the room with her hands.

"Wait!" She quickly makes me turn around and tugs my hood over my head.  "Okay, now you're good." She shoves me out the room.

Once I'm out the room she peeks her head to look outside the doorway.

"Luna!" She yells.

Suddenly Luna comes waltzing around the corner.

"Levina, your dad just talked to me for half an hour about the stock market!" She seems weirdly excited.

"Oh...great." Levina gives a sarcastic thumbs up.

Luna turns to me.

"Omg! You look so cool." She reaches her arm up and tugs on a piece of my hair that is sneaking out from under the top of hoodie.

"Than-" Before I could finish speaking Levina pulls her into the room and shuts the door.

My mouth stays ajar from my unfinished word.

"Okay then." I whisper to myself.

Suddenly Levina's tall ass father stalks into the hallway.

"Owen." He turns to me with a smile on his face.  His teeth are stark white against his skin color, making his smile very prominent.

His bald head is shiny in the light.

"Hey Mr. A." I can't pronounce Levina's last name so I settled on saying the first letter instead.

"Come son, let me teach you about stocks." He walks up to me and places his large hand on my shoulder, walking us both down the hallway and into the living room.

"So-" I zone out once he starts talking.

~

*Luna's POV*

"I've never worn red lipstick, or any makeup for that matter!" Levina shushs me and continues lining my lips with the crimson red lip liner.

"Shut up, you look great!" Next she grabs a dark red lipstick and smears it on my lips.

This is my first time wearing makeup, surprisingly.  Other then the time when I was seven and stole my mom's makeup.

I looked like a hot fucking mess.

She never let me use makeup again.

I'm currently sitting in Levina's vanity and she is using me as her own little doll, dressing me up, putting makeup on me, doing my hair.  I love it, it's kind of fun.

She had bought a concealer close to my shade and used it to cover the beauty marks around my face.  Then she used a black eyeliner to make a dark small beauty mark above my lip. 

When I had told her I'd pay for the stuff she bought me - without me even knowing she did - she told me to shut the fuck up and that it's fine.  I wonder what it's like to be rich.

"Okay, your makeup is now done." She looks proud as she stares at her work.

When I try to turn the chair to face the mirror she stops it.

"No! Don't look until it's finished!" She points her finger in my face.

I widen my eyes and nod.

"Okay, now-" she cuts off her own sentence and walks to her closet.  I can hear the sound of her looking through her hangers.

About a minute later she comes out holding a black corset looking top, and a short black skirt in one hand.

Dark red heels in her other hand.

A shimmer of mischief is in her eyes as she walks over to me.

She throws the items in my hands.

"I'll be in the bathroom taking a shit.  Be back in five.  Maybe ten since I had Taco Bell for dinner." She scurries off into her bathroom which is attached to her bedroom.

Looking at the outfit in my arms a shudder runs through me.

What am I even supposed to be?

Whatever, I place the clothes on the bed and begin taking off my clothes.

After sliding on the small skirt I put on the red heels.

I'm shocked we're the same size.

She should let me borrow her clothes more often.

I push my sweater off my head and place the corset-like black top over my upper body.

Wait- I'm not supposed to wear these things with a bra right?

Wearily, I un-clip my bra and throw it on Levina's bed, squishing my chest into the corset top.

Looking down my eyes widen.  It's a little too...booby, in my opinion.

I'm still confused on what the fuck I'm supposed to be.

If my mother saw me wearing this, I'd be dead.

I mean, yeah I'm almost eighteen, but still.  She would kill me.

Once I finish putting on the clothes, I go to knock on Levina's bathroom door.

"Levina? Can you zip up the corset shirt thingy you lent to me?" I louden my voice.

A few seconds later she responds.  "Uh- um- I'm not done.  I'm putting on my costume now and it's kinda taking a while." Her voice is muffled from the door.

"Uh...okay!  Also um- what the fuck am I supposed to be?" I call back.

"The Other Mother from Coraline! Except I don't really have a matching outfit for it so we gotta work with what we got!" She yells to me through the door.

"Oh?" I guess I kind of see it now.

"Don't worry! You'll look great!" I hear some scrambling threw the door along with some items falling.

"Thanks, okay I'm gonna wait for you out here!" I walk back to her bed and plop down.

I try zipping up the top but I can't do it all the way.

Sighing, I stand up from the bed.

These heels make me around 5'9.  Looking down at my body I see that my legs look like long pencil sticks.

I pull myself to her bedroom door and slowly open it.

Owen is sitting on a couch placed in the spacious hallway, leaning back with his eyes closed.

His legs are spread out and his arms are crossed over his chest.

With his eyes still closed and head still leaned back on the couch he lifts up his hips and readjusts his sitting position.

I thickly swallow.

"Ayúdame, estupido." I say before walking over to him so that now I'm standing in front of him. (Translation: Help me, stupid.)

His head shoots up and his eyes open.

He looks attractive with the face paint Levina did to him, and with his all black outfit and hoodie pulled over his head.

He clears his throat. "Uh- um- with what?" His adam apple bobs as he swallows.  He scans my whole body with his eyes.

I pull my hair to the side and turn around so that my bare back is facing him.

"Zip it please." I use my other hand to gesture to my back.

A second later I hear him stand up and walk towards me until I can feel his presence right behind me.

"Uh...okay." His deep voice makes goosebumps arise on my skin.

Suddenly I feel his fingers skim the skin of my lower back where the zipper starts.

My breathing is heavy.

He slowly pulls it up, fingers skimming my entire bare back as he goes upwards.

I swallow again.

I hear him suck in a breath.

A shiver runs through me.

Once the zipper is finally done he clears his throat and backs away.

When I turn around I'm sure he can see how red my face is.

"What are you supposed to be?" He looks me up and down again.

"The Other Mother from Coraline, the knock off version though, I guess." I glance down at my outfit.

My long black hair is cascading down my back. Levina parted it down the side - I hate side parts but the Other Mother has one - and went over it with a straightener. The corset top shows some cleavage, the black necklace Levina let me borrow falls down in the middle of it.

I see his eyes glance down to my chest area and then quickly averts them, blowing out a breath of air.

When I open my mouth to start speaking Levina's bedroom door suddenly opens.

She comes out wearing a small blush pink shimmery dress. Glitter is stuck to her cheek bones and cleavage, vibrant against her dark skin.  She is wearing light pink wings too.

She looks magical.

(Kind of what I imagine the outfits somewhat looking like?)

"Wow! You look like you belong in one of those Disney movies." I admire her outfit.

"Thanks!" She then looks me up and down.  "See? I knew I would be right.  You look hot as fuck!" She gestures to me with her hands and then looks to Owen. "You too."

He rolls his eyes playfully.

"Okay, c'mon! We still gotta go pick up Olive. She's gonna be a green fairy. Matching outfits ya know?" She looks excited as her small heels clink on the floor as she walks down the hallway.

Owen and I follow.

"Bye dad!" She waves at her father who is sitting on their massive couch.

"Bye daughter.  Have fun at your little halloween thing!"

He waves and then looks back down to the book in his lap.

"Little halloween thing? What did you tell your dad when he asked where you were going?" Owen questions her as we walk to her car.

"I told him we were going to Olive's house to watch scary movies and then to go trick-or-treating." She looks down ashamed.  "I feel bad for lying but he would never let me go if he knew we were going to an actual party!" She whisper yells.

My mom knows I'm going to a party with my friends.  For a Hispanic mother she is actually pretty chill when I tell her I want to hang out with my friends.  Maybe she just feels pity for me and lets me go where I want since I finally have friends.

Owen sits in the back seat with me when we drive about twenty minutes to go pick up Olive.

She also lives in a nice area in town.

Levina was right, their outfits are the same, except different colors. It's actually really cute.

"Hey guys!" Olive plops down into the front seat.

I greet her hello and Owen mumbles a hi.

Levina lets me control the music, so I put on Bad Bunny.

"I love Benito.  He's so hot." A sly smile is on my face.

Owen chuckles and shakes his head.

Finally we arrive to the house.  It's in a richer area.

The house is very large and white.  Almost looking kind of like a mansion.  I can hear music blasting and some cups littered on the lawn.

There is a large fountain in the front thats flowing water.  I can't even tell what it is.  A man peeing?  A fish? I don't know.

Several people are making out on the lawn as well.

Looking to the right I see a girl from my science class sitting by a bush with some random guy's hand up her costume's skirt.

Her eyes roll to the back of her head and her mouth is slightly open.

Um...

Looking to the far left I think I see some other teens within the flower bed doing...things.

Why can't these people get a damn room?

Taking a shaky breath, I open the car door and step out.

The thought of turning around and running home right now doesn't sound too bad as of right now.