CHAPATER 79: HAPPY HALLOWEEN

CHAPTER 79

We met up with Malik and a few of his friends at the carnival. By then, thanks to Keaton, my mood has brightened significantly and I am able to take in the surroundings with excitement and anticipation.

The carnival takes up the entire southern pier. There are plenty of attractions, booths, food stalls and shops. There are plenty of people too. Most of them are already in their Halloween costumes. There are plenty of families too. With little children running around excitedly. The sun is just about to set and the whole place is brightly lit and decorated.

We circle the first section of the carnival and decide to just try everything. From Ferris wheel to roller coaster to bumper car, we ride everything at least once. Granted this isn't Disneyland, but it's exciting just the same. Especially with good company like Keaton and Malik. There aren't that many attractions we can ride, so by the time the sun sets and dinner comes and goes, we have already circled the entire vicinity and ridden everything.

We then circled the carnival and stopped at game booths and tried most of them until our hands were full with toys and trinkets. Keaton, as one of the few who had never been to a carnival and somehow managed to get his competitiveness fully blown, stayed much longer each time at the booths to try and win the grand price. Most of them are electronics he had completely no use of.

"For you," Keaton says as he hands me an oversized black teddy bear with a little bowtie on it, holding a heart-shaped pillow in its hands. I blink at Keaton and then at the oversized toy and can't help but blush. I don't even like stuffed animals. But this is cute.

"Thank you." my voice sounds like a mosquito. That's how embarrassed I am.

"I know you don't really like stuffed animals," Keaton says slightly in embarrassment, "but the stall wonder won't let me go without it," he shrugs and I chuckle.

"You keep giving back the prize of course he's annoyed," I chuckle. "Thank you. I like it." I tell him sincerely.

"You can give it to your sister if you don't want to keep it," Keaton tells me, giving me a way out.

"No. I'm keeping it," I tell him. "This is the first gift you've ever given me. I'm keeping it," I tell him with a smile. Keaton stares at me and smiles back after a while.

"Yo! Let's get dinner then head back to mine," Malik appears out of nowhere, startling me and I instinctively smack him with my new teddy and he jumps back in surprise. "The hall that for?" he asks, dumbfounded.

"You scared me!" I pout at him, holding the teddy in front of me in annoyance as I made the teddy swing its fist at Malik.

"Cute teddy," Malik says, grinning, then turns to Keaton, "you got it for him?" he asks and Keaton nods.

"Suits him, right?" Keaton says with a teasing smile in which Malik returns it with the same kind of grin.

Why do I feel like I'm being seen as a child?

"Fuck you two," I growl at them and make the teddy kick them both before turning around to head tot he food area.

I am indeed starving. We played a lot and we did get some snacks. But a meal is a must. Especially at places like these where the food is vastly different than regular shops. Most of the stalls here are one time only stalls and can only be found at events such as this, so, trying them is matter of course.

The three of us buy whatever catches our eyes before settling on one of the wooden tables set up on the pier. We eat and chat for a while even after we gobbled down all of our food before deciding to go back to Malik's place to wash up and get ready for the party.

"You guys shower first," I tell them once we're inside Malik's house as I look through my email. "I forgot to turn in an assignment." I tell them.

"Okay," Malik says and drags Keaton while I sit down in the living room, open my laptop and start doing my assignment.

Thankfully, it's only a short essay and a few photo submissions. I wrote the essay a few days ago but I forgot about it so it's unedited. I try editing it as fast as I can as best as I can before editing the photo a little and attach it to the document.

I have a lot more assignments than normal especially since I've decided to take an early internship. Most of my grades will be depending on these assignments and not exams so I have to carefully do them if I want to graduate top of my class as I hope. I have less free time this semester but going out to party every once in a while will not hurt, surely.

I sigh after I send the assignment as well as an apology for the late submission. I hope the professor will still take it. I'm only late by a day anyway. At most, he'll just deduct a few points. I hope.

I close my laptop and put it back in my bag before strolling into the bedroom to put it away. I take out my necessities and my costume but then something strikes me. Can I really wear them?

I've prepared a Dionysus costume so of course it's a little bit revealing. You know, Greek Gods and all. But the state of my body is currently pretty ridiculous thanks to Allen.

"We're done." Keaton and Malik strut out of the bathroom clad only with a towel over their waist. Their damp and toned bodies are illuminated by the soft light and I can't help but to pout in jealousy.

"Babe you've seen it all what's the point pouting now?" Malik teases as he drops the towel carelessly to reveal an even more envious part of him.

"I hate you," I tell him before grabbing my things and stomping inside the bathroom, slamming the door behind me and I can hear the both of them chuckling.

I am gay and love and appreciate the male bodies but that doesn't mean I'm not jealous of those with better bodies than me.

I hurriedly take a shower and once I'm done, I take out my make up pouch and look for my concealer. The tube I bought a few weeks ago has been almost all used up. But I guess it'll have to do. I just need to cover up the parts where my skin is fully exposed.

I carefully apply some concealer on the more obvious marks and bruises and scars before putting on my costume and look for more marks exposed and do them as fast as I can. I stand in front of the mirror, making sure I'm properly dressed and covered before I smile to myself in satisfaction and go out of the bathroom to be greeted with a sight I will forever dream of.

Malik, in his Zorro outfit, stands tall and handsome even though his face is covered up by the black satin mask. His toy sword hanging on his waist and his cape sways with his every movement. His tight fitting black trousers look so good on his toned thighs and his leather boots only makes him even more dangerous looking as well as handsome.

Beside him, Keaton is clad in black camouflage military uniform, complete with combat boots, beret and even decorated with patches and pins. He also has a prop gun and prop knife hanging from his waist and his overall look is truly a sight to behold. Don't even mention handsome, he's full on looking so sexy right now.

"Wow," I whistle in appreciation at them, grinning from ear to ear.

As I'm checking them out, they also take a step closer to me, checking me out, obviously. I give them a show by twirling so they can have a good look at me.

"Wear anything underneath?" Malik asks with a grin as his hand naughtily slips under the slits of the gown, reaching to where it's not supposed to. At least not now.

"Of course I do!" I slap his hand away but he's not mad at that and only grins at me and Keaton.

"What? Won't let us have a taste?" Malik asks, hand still on my behind, caressing and pinching.

"Party first, sex later," I tell him, rolling my eyes though I make no move to get away as he bends down and kisses me.

"Sweet," Malik says after the kiss, licking his lips. My face is probably flushed red already as I glare at him and punch his chest in annoyance.

"You look amazing," Keaton finally says. "It must have been difficult putting it on, why didn't you call us?" he asks.

I look down at my intricate costume. It's actually not very difficult. It just looks that way because the outfit is all one big garment tied this way and that way over one shoulder exposing the other one, and then around the waist. The slits on the left side stops only an inch over my knee, exposing most of my calf. The gown itself falls over my ankles. The hardest to put on is actually the gladiator shoes with strings cross-crossing over my calf all the way to below the knee.

"It's not that hard," I tell him, feeling grateful. "You can just help me take it off later," I tell him, grinning half jokingly, half seriously.

"That'll be my pleasure," Keaton says, chuckling.

"We'd better go now," I tell the both of them as I give Keaton my phone and wallet since I have no pockets whatsoever.

We call an uber since we'll be drinking anyway so there's really no point in driving a car only to leave it there and then get it back the next morning. We probably won't be in the right state to call a substitute driver either. So uber it is. We drive for about half an hour even though the place is close enough. It is Halloween indeed. The road is congested. Children are roaming the neighborhood trick or treating. Adults in their adult costumes filling the clubs and streets being merry and festive.

We get out of the car and are greeted with a crowd of people standing in line, huddling together, as well as the cold wind of early winter. I can't help shrinking into my coat as well. It's truly winter soon.

"Let's get in," Keaton and Malik huddles close to me to keep me slightly warmer as we walk towards the entrance and pass the gate towards the coat-check. After we drop off our coats, we walk into the venue and my eyes can't help but widen.

The big warehouse has been decorated with Halloween decorations such as fake spider webs, fake tombstones and even fake skeletons. There are also Halloween themed balloons, signs and anything else Halloween you can think of. It seems that they go all out for this one event.

We walk straight to the bar to get our drinks while Malik is also waiting for his friends who soon catch up with us by the bar. Malik introduces us and we get acquainted fast as we move to the seating area, taking our drinks with us and ordering some more along the way.

"I propose a game!" Malik shouts against the blaring music with a grin.

"What game?" I ask.

"There are seven of us!" he points at each of us, "I'll take a shot for every vampire that walks past by me!" he says and takes a shot just as a beautiful vampire girl walks by our table. I laugh heartily and nod in agreement.

"What about me?" I ask in excitement and anticipation.

"You!" he says, pointing at me, "take a shot for every slutty version of whatever!" he laughs joyfully and I pout.

"You want to poison me!" I protest but take a shot anyway since there's one very sexy, very slutty looking policeman right across from our table. The rest of them cheer and discuss further their designated targeted costumes.

Soon, we all have our own target and we cheer for every person taking a shot.

Well, that's how the night starts.