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Party!, Purposefully Creepy Mansion, Thursday Evening

It was once more Halloween, and the island had finally calmed the fuck down again.

Well, mostly. The Jack O'Lanterns outside in the yard lighting the way to the house occasionally laughed in a PG-rated creepy fashion, and bat cut-outs flew around the ceiling above the partygoers' heads, and the black cats printed on the sides of balloons flicked their tails back and forth and sometimes hissed at people when they went by.

And because it was tradition, there was a bloody goblin in the fridge, complete with a name tag identifying it as April. Only this time, whenever you opened the door to get something, it'd tell you whatever you were grabbing was actually poison...ously delicious!

(Shut up, it was made of plastic, its punning game wasn't the greatest.)

There were also once more lots of snacks, lots of drinks, and way too many kinds of jello shots. But fewer renditions of Monster Mash on the Spotify playlist for this party, this year! So far, anyway. Mike had a sign up againwith instructions on how to find the playlist and add songs to it, so that may not last all through the evening.

[ooc: OCD up, have at! OPEN TO ALL! If you're an adult, you got an invitation! Students are welcome to try and sneak in should they so wish, but may be politely removed from the premises.]

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Karolina was dressed as ~~meta for~~ Buttercup, and looking super happy about it to boot. Possibly because she'd once more evaded the need for a wig because she had the requisite long blonde hair already?

But possibly because she absolutely thought of this like a dorky anniversary, because she'd met Beau at last year's Halloween party. And here they were again a year later, together.

Yeah, she wasn’t the only one who was thinking of this as a dorky anniversary. You could probably even tell, because even beneath the mask of Beau’s ~~meta for~~ Westley costume she was clearly grinning like a complete dork.

And okay, sure, maybe it wasn’t entirely accurate for her shirt to be tied up far enough that her abs were visible, but see if she cared; she thought it was an improvement anyway.

“You look dope,” she informed Karolina for about the thirtieth time.

Edited (Don’t help my punctuation, autocorrect!) 2019-10-31 18:10 (UTC)

"And you look hot," Karolina replied, also about the thirtieth time. And briefly sort of half-poked, half-caressed the bare skin on Beau's side.

Also for about the thirtieth time.

"God, isn't it kinda weird to be back here? This year's been -- a lot had happened, right?"

“Long fucking year,” Beau said by way of agreement, and slid her arm around Karolina’s waist. What? They looked damn good. Iconic, even, no matter if Beau was a little short for a dashing farm kid turned swashbuckling pirate hero. “A good one, though. In retrospect I guess that’s not so surprising. Meeting you here last Halloween was like, a really solid way to start off.”

She laughed and looked up at Karolina with a grin. “Happy one year of knowing each other, Kar.”

"Aww, happy one year of knowing each other, Beau," Karolina told her, before ducking down to give her a quick little kiss. Because guess they couldn't be at this party for longer than five minutes before being obnoxiously cute together? Figured. "I'm happy I met you."

Five minutes was a very generous estimate.

“Really?” Beau teased her. “I couldn’t tell.”

Karolina just snickered before dropping another kiss against the tip of her nose.

"Hush, I'm being serious."

Oh so serious.

Beau just laughed and turned a slow, knowing smirk on her. “As you wish.”

Annnd so much for the serious, because Karolina immediately broke into happy giggles.

Also blushed a little bit.

"... hi, you're really pretty," Beau blurted out, like she was thirteen and didn't know how to flirt, instead of twenty-three and still terrible at flirting.

With someone she'd been dating all year, yes, but she had to do something to cope with how cute the giggles and the blushing were.

The giggling turned more into snickering.

"Did you... just notice that?" Karolina teased.

"No, I've always known that," Beau shot back in some pitiful attempt to reclaim her dignity. "Just worth pointing out every now and then. I thought you were super hot the first time I saw you, remember?"

In costume though. Because that had also been Halloween. But details.

"I think almost anyone would've thought that, though," Karolina retorted, even if she wasn't generally inclined to think of herself as a Hot Person, such. Because: "It was the cinched waist and the cleavage."

Push-up bras weren't really her thing but she knew it had looked good, because the whole costume had been designed to do that.

"…yeah, okay, that is what I noticed," Beau admitted, because that would have been obvious to anyone. "You were hot then. I mean, I still think you're hot. But I like you a lot more as yourself."

She gave Karolina a quick grin. "I totally would've banged you the way you were dressed that night." No one was shocked by this. "Dating long enough that we're practically living together? Nah, that's all you, babe."

… oh wow, they really were practically living together, weren't they. Somehow that hadn't occurred to Beau until she said it.

Yeah, it didn't seem to have done so with Karolina, either. Judging by the sudden bounce of her eyebrows.

"... Wow, we -- we really are basically living together, aren't we?"

They were super observant about these things, clearly.

Well, they still had to be disasters somehow. It was kind of like they just had one really big apartment with a hallway running through it, and neither of them had noticed.

"We …" Beau looked at her, a little wide-eyed, but only in surprise, because now that she thought about it she was pretty sure almost half her stuff was at Karolina's place, and she'd already set aside half of her own dresser drawers so Karolina could use them. "Holy shit, we kind of are."

She might have freaked out about that a while ago. She was actually freaking out a little bit now, but not in a way that made her want to run.

"I'm kinda into it."

"Are you?"

Because, no lie, for a second there Karolina had been maybe a tiny bit worried she might freak out? Because while they weren't actually living together in a single-address kind of way, it still seemed like a pretty big thing. Even if they'd failed to notice it over the past months, apparently.

"Because, so am I."

Beau leaned into her for a moment in a one-armed sort of half hug, but she had to lean back so she could actually make eye contact. She'd spent most of her life being a compulsive liar, and she'd actually been very honest since she'd gotten here, but it felt like she had to make it clear that she was telling the truth right now. It felt like that was important, somehow.

"Yeah," she said in the steadiest voice she was capable of. "I wasn't expecting that, but yeah. I'm totally okay with it. I mean, you're not the only one who likes waking up and knowing I'm right there."

Wait, that didn't quite sound right.

"I mean -- you know what I mean, right?"

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