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And all the shit I’d never say.
And the fact that the last thing they’d remember of me is that I’d used them.
Fuck.
I gripped the armrests of the chair, my fingernails leaving half moons in the soft leather.
No, I was going to survive this. And then I’d tell them everything.
Y’know, like that I’d been in love with them since the day we met. And that I didn’t want them to be a casualty in my fucked-up disaster of a life.
Some of the other stylists were murmuring to their Ghosts as well and I heard an unmistakable sniffle through the noise. Drugs or crying, it didn’t matter. It was time to get it the fuck together.
“Big fan?” the stylist asked, rushing through my contour and blusher.
“She was my mom.”
The woman’s lips formed a comical “o.” “Legacythen. Did she enter as a Ghost too?”
I nodded, my lips twitching at the colloquial term. It was a nice way of talking about entrants to Hide and Seek who opted to hide. Either you weredeadorinvisible. Either way you’d be aGhost.
“She must be proud,” she said, applying a sharp coat of eyeliner to my closed eyelids.She’s dead,I wanted to say, but I kept my mouth shut. “Honestly, I don’t want to doll you up too much, you’re so gorgeous as is. Besides, they won’t see it under the mask anyway.”
“Sure,” I muttered, “Whatever you think is best.”
Half an hour later I was done, my hair pulled into two long pigtails at the back of my head, a white rabbit mask clutched in my hands as I walked out of the tent.
The flash of a camera made me see stars, my bracelet humming to life.
Play hard, die famous,I thought bitterly.
As I made it to my gate, I scanned the crowd for familiar faces. I was just about to pull on my mask when a sharp bob of dark hair turned around, her eyes widening into saucers as she pushed toward me.
“Vic!”
“Jenna,” I hissed, pulling my mask over my face. “It’s white rabbit now.”
“Right, sorry—I wasn’t expecting to see you. God, I love your hair. You’re going to clean up on gifts.”
I adjusted the back of my white rabbit mask, making sure it was safely secured over my face.
“Right,” I said slowly. “Are you ready?”
“Ready as I’ll ever be,” she said with a soft laugh. “I can’t believe you’re here.Miss-I-Am-Never-Doing-That-Evil-Post-Capitalist-Bullshitherself.”
“Things change,” I said tersely. “Is anyone else with you?”
She bobbed her head, pulling a black rabbit mask over her face. “Jack is here somewhere, and I’m pretty sure I saw Kohl too.”
I scoffed. “Actually, I got a good look at him. It’s Dylan.”
“Fucked,” Jenna muttered. “We should stick together for the first couple hours, then split up when the pack starts to thin.”
Given I didn’t have any other allies, I nodded in agreement.
I just hoped that we’d both find a way to survive this.
It’d be a bummer to watch the Custodians spray her brain matter off the concrete.
