Chapter Twenty Six

The Halloween Bash is here and Lou, my stylist, decided to come and visit me. She doesn't come alone. She brings her black bag that no doubt holds my costume. She smiles big as she enters my dorm.

"Princess Millian!" She gushes, bringing me into a bear hug. "I haven't seen you since forever."

She lets me go. "It's been five days."

"I know, I know."

I point to the bag. "What's inside of there?"

Her smile grows. "Your costume, of course."

I knew it. "The Halloween Bash isn't until three hours from now. Why are you here so early?"

"I'm your stylist. It's my job to make you more fabulous."

I grin. "Of course. Let me take a shower and I'll be right out."

I head towards my connected bathroom to take a quick shower. I walk out and Lou has already transformed my bedroom. Make up kits are sprawled on my dresser, the black bag is hanging on the closet door, the straightener and curly iron is plugged in and my chair is pull out, waiting for me to take a seat. I do.

Lou, begins parting my hair into four sections. As she straightens my wavy hair she makes small talk.

"How are you and Kyle?"

"We're great actually." I reply. "He's really sweet and loveable."

"Oohh. You mean Kyle is actually allowed to come five feet near you?"

"Yeah, surprisedly." I say. "Hayes doesn't like him as much but he's slowly easing up."

"That's shocking, I remember-" She cuts herself off.

I frown. "You remember what?"

"Nothing. It was a long time ago. Anyway, I'm staying for your performance."

"You are?"

"Yep. So you better blow my mind away. I want you to impress me."

I smile. "Don't worry. I will."

She continues to talk but my mind is on what she brought up earlier. She brought up Hayes and then stopped out of no where. I wonder what she was about to say? She finish curly the last strand of my hair and I face the mirror. I grin. Lou never cease to amaze me. She always makes me look incredible. My hair is curled to perfection in loose curls around my face.

"Now for the make up." Lou says. "You don't need much but it'll finish off your overall look."

She gives me a smokey eyes before swiping the eyeliner across my eyelids to give me wings. She paints my lips a blood red and I look like a total bad girl, a diva.

"Here. Put this on." Lou hands me the black bag and I grab it.

I head into the bathroom and slip out my robe before unzipping the bag. I eye it for a good minute. It looks revealing but it probably looks better when I wear it.

I pull up the leather skin tight bottom before putting on the tight shirt. The shirt ends right above my belly button.

Lou must be out of her mind? I step out the bathroom.

"Lou what is this? Who am I suppose to be?"

She glances up. "Your costume and a bad ass."

"Don't you think it's a little revealing?" I ask."It's practically showing everything off."

She rolls her eyes. "No. It's fine. You act like you don't have the body for it."

If I didn't know any better, I would think Lou was a teenager rather than an adult.

"And? I'm not going to flaunt it to the whole school."

"Why? It's not like you haven't seen it before. I showed you like five weeks ago."

"I know but I wasn't really paying attention to it, to be honest."

The day she showed me, my mind was on something else. It was on Hayes and his words. I couldn't focus on Lou.

"I could make you something else." She offers.

I shake my head. "No. It's fine. The bash starts in fifteen minutes and Hayes is coming in like five minutes."

She nods her head. "Okay. But you look amazing, if I do say so myself."

Hayes' P.O.V

I glare at a group of boys as Millie walks pass them, unaware of their staring. As soon as we got in the gym, I shot draggers at every guy who kept their lingering eyes on Millie for a second too long.

When I picked her up, I knew I was going to have to kill a few boys tonight. Millie opened her door and I was speechless. She had on tight skin leather on. It showed off her beautiful body but I knew others wouldn't see what I saw. They saw her for her body, nothing else.

I try my best to keep Millie cover but every way she went, there is guys looking her up and down without shame whatsoever. I bite my tongue to keep from snapping at Lou. What was she thinking when she created this outfit?

Reid tries to help me keep Millie safe but there isn't much he could do. He has his own job to do. Kyle finds Millie and his eyes widen.

That little fucker. Rage shoot through my veins. I have to control my anger. Millie would never talk to me, if I murdered her precious boyfriend.

It isn't like she talked to me everyday but she didn't cut me off completely.

"You look..." Kyle struggles for the right words. I roll my eyes. I begin listing words from the top of my head to complete his sentence.

Amazing, incredible, gorgeous, unearthly hot, irresistible.

"Like a bad ass." Millie finish for him.

Kyle smirks. "Yeah. That too."

Millie laughs as she pushes him, slightly. "You look handsome too."

"What's a prince, without his princess." Kyle says, corny.

But, yet, he's rewarded with another smile. I follow them to a table where Reid, Lucas and Lily are. Lucas is dressed like a pirate, maybe Jack Sparrow and Lily is superwoman.

"Millie!" Daniella yells over the loud music. "You look hot."

"Well thanks." Millie says. "You don't look to bad yourself."

Daniella rolls her eyes. "Please, I'm a freaking witch. Laura forgot to make my costume on time. Can you believe her?"

"Where is she anyway?" Lily asks.

"Ducking and hiding from me." Daniella says, crossing her arms. "Lily I love your costume."

They begin to talk about each other's costume and Lucas and Kyle leaves to get punch.

Sophie joins us. "Hey, Hayes. You like my outfit."

Sophie is a red cat. "Yeah. I guess."

"You guess?"

I shrug. "It's alright. At least you're not revealing anything."

She smiles. "Why's that?"

"Because I'll be in prison for murdering every guy who looks at you."

Her smile widens. "Aw, you do love me."

"Yeah, I do." I tell her, ruffling her hair.

"Quit doing that!" She yells. "You're gonna mess up my hair!"

"Is that Laura over there?" Millie questions, pointing her finger.

Daniella follows her finger. "Yes!" She looks at Lily and Millie. "I'll be right back." She storms away. "Laura!" She screams.

"We might be missing a friend, tonight" Lily states, watching Daniella talk to Laura.

Millie nods her head."You're not wrong about that."

Kyle and Lucas comes back with drinks in their hands. The girls takes it from their hand and take a sip of the green drink.

"What is it?" Sophie asks, looking inside of the cup.

Lucas shrugs. "I don't have a clue but it was label Witch Spell, Drink if you dare."

Sophie grins."You think they spiked it?"

"Nope." Kyle says."Ava can get her hands on a lot things but alcohol isn't one of them."

Sophie's shoulders drops."Oh bummer." Then she perks up. "I love this song! We have to dance."

I listen to the song. It is a girl's remix of Problem.

I'm a monster, I'm a m-monster
I'm a monster, I'm a m-monster
I'm a monster, I'm a m-monster

"Might as well." Lily says, placing her drink down.

"Alright." Millie says. "Let's go."

Sophie grins as she starts dancing while backing away from us. Lily grabs Lucas hand as she sings the lyrics. Kyle takes Millie's hand and they follow.

Leaning against the wall, I watch them dance. Reid does the same. Two girls went up to Millie, stopping her fun. They say something to her and Millie nods her head. She faces Kyle and inform him what's going on.

I follow behind them. "Where are you going?"

"I have to perform." Millie says, walking up the stage stairs. The two girls follow her.
I walk around to the front of the stage where an audience is forming. Sophie waves at me.

"Millie is about to perform." She says and I nod my head.

I hear her voice before I see her and if I knew I was going to be the reason behind her song, I would have never did what I have done.

She walks towards the front of the stage, singing her lyrics loud and clear. Her voice rings out in the silent gym.

Cause baby now we got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look at what you've done
Cause baby now we got bad blood
Hey!

Oscar, the drummer, comes in banging his drums. The rhythm was perfect with its boom boom-boom-boom-boom pssh tune. Taylor and Zadia, the dancers she picked out, began to dance.

Now we got problem
And I don't think we can solve them
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we got bad blood
Hey!

She looks out into the sea of faces and she stares right into my grey eyes. I know the song is about me but she's asking me everything she couldn't ask me that day I hurt her.

Did you have to do this?
I was thinking that you could be trusted
Did you have to ruin what was shiny, now it's all rusted?
Did you have to hit me, where I'm weak?
Baby I couldn't breathe and rubbed it in so deep
Salt in the would like you're laughing right at me

If I could go back in time, I would. I would do it right now. I never meant to hurt her. She fooled me. The passed weeks after she slapped me, everything between us was okay. She never once gave me a hint that she still hates me. I thought we were moving on.

Obviously, I'm wrong. She wrote a song for me telling me everything she kept locked up.

She tilts her head up as she sings.

Oh it's so sad to think about the good times
You and I

I can feel two pairs of eyes on me but I keep my face straight. I refuse to look at Reid and Lily. They know what happened between us but they didn't know the whole story. They just know, I broke her heart in the worse way ever imagined.

Millie places her elbow on Zadia's shoulder, leaning against her while Taylor does the same to her shoulder.

Did you think we'll be fine?
Still got scars on my back from your knives
So don't think it's in the past
These kind of wounds they last and they last
Now did you think it all through?
All these things will catch up to you
And time can heal but this won't
So if you're coming my way just don't

I wanted nothing more than to run on to the stage and pour my heart out to her but I can't. Instead I watch her flaunt her hatred at me and sing how she's finally letting me go.

I'm nothing more than a memory she wants to erase.

The music gets soft and the stage light hits Millie, illuminating her. A red glow surrounds her body.

Band aids don't fix bullet holes
You say sorry just for show
If you live like that, you live with ghosts

The music picks up and gets loud.

If you live like that blood runs cold

Cause baby we got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look at what you've done
Cause baby now we got bad blood
Hey!

The song ends and the clapping and cheering begins. Millie smiles but it drops when her eyes lands on me. She thanks the audience before walking off the stage. I move towards her.

She tries to hide from me but I catch her by her wrist.

"Millie" I whisper.

"This is what you wanted. You wanted me to forget about everything that happened between us." She glances up at me. "Now you have it."

She breaks free from my loose grip and I watch her disappear into the crowd. I punch the wall but not even physical pain can over throw the pain I'm feeling inside.