newroutines | 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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Octavia was. But she was also a little more inclined to let herself be touched (and outside the cover of darkness, no less) and in fact, leaned into it just the tiniest bit.

"I don't think I've ever been called adorable before," she said, faintly amused. "Maybe I should hold onto it just for that."

"So ka ♥?" asked Shunsui, whose drawl couldn't quite manage to sound truly surprised when he'd expected her to say something like that. "Now that's a shame, Octavia-chan ♥."

And he may have taken just a bit longer to fuss over the hat than necessary, brushing back a bit of her hair while he was there and smiling softly.

"There we are ♥," he said. "All fixed ♥! Not that you'd really need it to complete the effect, Octavia-chan ♥."

Octavia found she missed his hands as soon as they were gone. Still sadly had enough of a handle on herself not to say that out loud, though. At best, it was a little displeased flicker on her face, there one second and gone the next.

"Thank you," she said. "For both." The fixing and the compliment.

"Tondemonai ♥," said Shunsui, beaming into it, though he couldn't help wondering a little about that flicker, brief as it may have been. There might have been a flicker of his own behind his beaming smile, the particular tilt of his head.

"I missed seeing your lovely face at the shop yesterday ♥," he offered lightly. "All set with your groceries this week, were you?"

Whatever small smile had been on her face dimmed, now. "There were clowns," she said, although she was sure he already knew that. "I didn't have time."

For anything that wasn't the hunt, actually, as people who'd had to force her into drinking and eating had found out.

"Ahhhhhh, yes," said Shunsui, whose smile didn't dim so much as it just shifted, almost with a sigh, running a hand now through his own hair. "Those clowns. They did seem to demand an awful lot of attention, didn't they?"

"Took up my whole day," Octavia replied, with a lightness she didn't actually feel. She didn't particularly feel like thinking about yesterday, right now.

Might have explained why her gaze slid to watching his hand, too. "It was a long day."

"All the more reason to enjoy tonight, then, neh ♥?" Shunsui offered encouragingly. "Make it another long one, but in a much, much more enjoyable way ♥..."

It was a little like Octavia snapped back into the present, at that. Found the small smile again, though it was maybe more of a lopsided smirk.

"That's the plan." Along with making sure she'd regret every last one of those jello shots in the morning, but that kind of masochistic streak seemed best kept to herself. "I think I'm pretty well on my way, actually."

"I can see that ♥," said Shunsui with an almost proud sort of chuckle. "Off to an excellent start, and the night is still so young ♥. I almost feel as if I've got some catching up to do ♥."

"There are a lot of jello shots you're probably missing out on," Octavua agreed, with a firm nod.

As far as gestures went, it was actually a lot more obvious than what she usually went for.

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