Sera was staggered by her reflection when she stepped in front of the mirror. Her long blond hair had been swept up and pinned neatly on her head. Spiraling tendrils of it fell down to frame her face. Her eyes shone a brilliant purple against the deep violet of her long, medieval dress. The sleeves of which were off the shoulder. An elegant gold choker, with fake blue stones hanging from it, was clasped around her neck. Kathleen had painted flames on her face that swirled out from her eyes and curled to her temples. They made her eyes seem larger, and more mysterious.
She barely recognized herself as she stared in dumbfounded silence.
"There," Kathleen announced. "That should do it."
Sera turned to look at her. The long black wig hung down to Kathleen's waist and swished as she moved. She had bought an Elvira dress that was cut daringly low to enhance her large breasts. Her eyes were outlined in black, and she had painted a spider and a web on her right cheek. Her lips had been painted black, and she had placed long, black fingernails on. She looked utterly amazing and very sexy.
"You look wonderful," Sera said.
"Thank you," she replied, sweeping back her long black hair. "You look beautiful."
"Thanks, you ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's get Danielle."
Sera opened the door, and Kathleen swept past her, swishing her hair as she went. They moved down the hall, dodging the bats, spider webs, spiders, and witches that hung from the ceiling. Kathleen knocked on Danielle's door and pushed it open. An eerie howl greeted them, and a skeleton began to laugh as its glowing green eyes lit up.
"Hey guys," Danielle greeted as she shoved a pile of clothes on the floor.
Danielle had managed to get one of the few single rooms in the dorm. In her first three years she had hated her roommates. This year she'd decided that she would rather be alone. She was much happier with the arrangement.
"You look so cute!" Kathleen gushed.
Danielle cast them a flashing grin as she tossed back her long brown hair. She was dressed in a fitted gray leotard. Her hair had been pulled into a ponytail, and gray ears had been placed securely on her head. Whiskers decorated her face and she had painted the tip of her slender nose black.
"You two look amazing."
"But of course," Kathleen cried as she spun in a circle.
"I'm ready." Danielle grabbed her small gray purse. "I hope this party is good."
"So do I." Kathleen bounced over to Sera as she opened the door. "The school party last year sucked! So this one had better be good."
"It's a frat house," Sera said smiling. "Drinking, dancing, and passing out, only it will be in disguise."
Kathleen laughed and skipped down the hall. "Like we won't know who it is through a mask!" she called, punching the button for the elevator. They stepped into it as Kathleen pushed the button for the first floor. "I can't wait to bob for apples in Budweiser, the Coors caramel apples, and beer bottle bats!"
They laughed as the doors opened and they stepped into the lobby. A handful of people were gathered around, costumes on, waiting to go to parties. Streamers flowed from the ceiling to the floor, and decorations covered the walls in preparation for the trick-or-treaters tomorrow night. The three of them crossed the hall and exited through the thick wood doors. The crisp air and the smell of dead leaves instantly filled Sera's nostrils. Students strolled along the sidewalks, almost all of them were wearing costumes, as they made their way toward whatever party they were invited to, or bar that they were going to spend the night at.
"Got your invite?" Danielle asked.
"I can't believe they sent out invitations," Kathleen said, pulling hers from between her breasts. "When did they get class Sera?"
"Liam said they were doing something different this year, and that they didn't have enough room for a lot of people. There will be no underclassmen there, unless they're in the frat, or a girlfriend."
"There are still about a thousand people in the upper-class." Kathleen pulled her dress down to expose more of her ample chest.
"They only sent out a hundred invitations."
"There are more people than that on the dance floor most nights," Danielle muttered.
"They're opening it up for the kid's tomorrow night," Sera said. "Everyone is invited after that."
At the frat house they discovered a line that led all the way down to the sidewalk. "What is this?" Kathleen demanded.
"They're having a haunted house," a girl in an elf suit replied. "They're taking us in ten at a time."
"Yeah, but once you go in, you don't come out," a boy dressed as Robin Hood added with a sinister laugh.
