“Hey! Lay off the pancakes, this is neutral territory.”
“Sorry, brother dear. Just had to try some,” she smirked back knowing he couldn’t do more while their parents were awake and nearby.
“Children, calm yourselves. There’s plenty more coming down the pipeline,” said their mother, Sarah.
“Fine, mom,” came the twin replies to her intervention.
“So, Rose, what are you and Jessica up to tonight?” asked Sarah. “Going trick or treating as the twins from The Shining again?”
“Nah, this year we’re going as something special,” she said with a hint of mischief in her eyes. “Afraid we can’t spoil the surprise just yet.”
“Can’t be that great,” came quietly from Josh’s lips.
“Just you wait, brother, we’ll get your jaw to drop all night long.”
“I doubt that,” he said more confidently.
“We’ll see about that, Josh,” she replied just as strongly.
“Children… behave.”
Josh finished up his breakfast and went back to his room. He had a whole day to spend relaxing before he had to get ready for the party tonight. Deciding to spend his time playing League of Legends with some friends, he put his little sister out of mind and focused on gaming. By the time he finished up his last game, it was nearly 7 PM and he needed to prepare his costume. This year he was going as Jango Fett and he even had a cool voice changer installed that gave him the accent of the character. He was about to put his costume on when Rose came knocking at his door while holding a dress bag.
“Hey, bro, it’s almost time to head over to Jessica’s place.”
“Oh, right, I almost forgot about that. One second,” he put back his costume into its cover and hopped into some pants. He figured he could drop his little sister off first before heading to his buddy James’s place and change there. “So where is the ‘special’ costume I heard so much about?”
“I’ll show it to you later. It needs to be appreciated in full so Jessica and I promised to help each other put it on when we met up.”
“Sure, chicken.”
“Whatever. Just take me to her place already and we can get half of our arrangement over with. Don’t think I’ve forgotten about my cake by the way!”
“Yeah, yeah, let’s get going squirt.”
Dropping his little sister off went by without much fanfare. He just wished he got to see Jessica, that hot little minx again, but he was in too much of a rush tonight. He headed over to James’s house and changed into his Jango Fett outfit. The party was going to begin in an hour, so he and James drank a few strong beers down in the meantime. Josh didn’t really appreciate the flavor of the alcohol, but he was only looking for the buzz anyway so it was of no consequence to him. After his fourth beer, people began to trickle into the house wearing outfits of all kinds. He saw pirates, cowboys, sexy witches, cute nurses, and more all dancing in the same room.
It was shaping up to be a classic Halloween party when he noticed a girl wearing something out of the ordinary. She had on a golden gown with a black masquerade mask covering a good chunk of her face. She wore blue high heels which lifted her up to a small 5’5″ or 165 cm and had gorgeous dirty-blonde hair wrapped in tresses around her head. He was struck by how beautiful her outfit was even though it didn’t really match the looks of the typical Halloween costume. Josh decided to approach her and see if she might be interested in dancing or maybe something more.