Olivia's POV:

"I'm not kidding, this is insane." I say and my gaze shifts over to a guy who was basically painted green. "That guy literally looks like the before picture of Hulk without muscles."

"And that guy looks like a smurf." I hear someone say behind us.

We turn to see Kira with a smile as Scott and Stiles looked around the room in an awe. As soon as Scott trails his eyes to Allison and I's hands, I immediately let go since there was still that bit of guilt to him.

"Hey!" I greet with a smile but notice that Isaac wasn't with them. "Where's Isaac?"

"We haven't seen him but I thought you guys weren't gonna come?" Scott asked, moving his gaze back to us.

"Yeah Olivia, didn't you say you had something planned?" Stiles asked and my eyes widen.

See the thing I planned for tonight with Allison was supposed to be a surprise.

We were gonna carve pumpkins obviously, but I wanted to have a picnic and a whole setup where we could use a projector to watch movies. I even bought the cliche fairy lights to decorate the backyard.

I almost used my entire allowance I saved for the past couple months. I'm not too bummed since I could set everything up another day.

"You did?" Allison worriedly asks and I immediately shake my head.

"No! Don't worry it's nothing." I assure but she gives me a pointed expression as if she didn't believe me.

"Olivia--"

"Stiles, you were saying something about a key?" Kira interrupts, causing all of us to shift our attention to him. I smile gratefully to her and she nods with small smile.

"Oh yeah. I had this random key that just showed up there on my key ring this morning. I asked my dad if he put it there, but he said he didn't know anything about it."

"It's just a key, right?" Scott asks.

"Yeah are you sure you didn't make a spare key for my house without me knowing?" I joke, knowing that he had one for Scott's house.

"No I already made one for your house but made it red." Stiles says, holding up his keys to show that he indeed made a spare to my house which causes my eyes to widen. "So it can't be mine or yours."

I pinch the bridge of my nose. "I don't even want to know how you managed to make a key to my house."

"Look, I don't know how I got the key or what it's for."

"You want to leave so we can figure it out?" Scott suggests and I see Kira's smile falter a bit.

"Uh..." Stiles trails but out of nowhere, a girl with bright neon orange hair covered with several dots over her body walks over to grab him by the neck, placing a kiss on his cheek before pulling away to show that she left a mark.

The girl smiles with her neon orange lips. "Happy Halloween." She says before walking back to the crowd of dancers.

I look at Stiles as he stared at the girl in a daze which caused me to wave a hand over his face. "Earth to Stiles?"

He blinks a couple times before shaking his head. "It can wait!" He says and quickly follows after the girl.

Allison laughs as we watch him trying to push through the crowd. "I think we lost him." She tugs on my arm. "Come on, they have a paint booth."

I gesture to my outfit where the white glowed. "What, this isn't enough?"

"We need some color!" She laughs and drags me to the booth where a woman barely finished painting Danny's body.

"Face or body?"

Before I could answer, Allison already had beat me to it.

"Body." She patted my back. "Can you paint something with fire?" She asked and the artist nods, gathering her paints from her table.

"Really?" I rose an eyebrow and she innocently shrugs.

"I thought it would look hot, if you know what I mean." She smirks and I roll my eyes playfully.

I wince as soon as the woman applies the red paint to my skin "I don't know if you're trying to make it a pun or..."

"It works both ways doesn't it?" She winked and I feel my face flush.

As soon as the woman finishes the design, she gestures for me to walk to the mirror.

There were various red and orange swirls on my chest and belly, almost similar to flames which caused me to smile.

(A/N: just a reference to get an idea of the design LMAO don't roast the horrible photoshop in the comments im sensitive 🥺👉🏻👈🏻.)

There were more stray lines across my shoulder blades but I noticed that they were painted as if I had wings.

"I went with a more of a bird inspired type of look, if that's alright." The artist explained.

I nod with a smile. "This is sick. Thanks." I compliment and she nods before moving on to the next person.

I look towards Allison and see she was staring at the crowd of people. I follow her gaze and see that she had locked eyes with Scott who had Kira by his side, causing the pit of my stomach to sink a bit.

I knew the two were moving on from each other but I admit, there's still days where I would get insecure about us.

I mean, Scott was her first relationship.

"Did you tell him yet?" I ask, recalling last nights events with the shadow ninjas. "About what happened?"

She shook her head. "No. We still have a couple hours, remember? We promised my dad."

"You promised your dad. I never said I wouldn't tell Scott."

"I promised him in order to protect him. I thought you would understand."

"And again, I do but I never promised anything."

She raised her eyebrow. "Is protecting my father such a bad thing?"

"No, but you know that I don't like pissing off Scott if I'm keeping something important. I don't need a repeat of sophomore year."

Her eyes trail down to my chest before meeting my eyes once more. "No, you don't, but you're still afraid of hurting his feelings about us being together so you just stand there awkwardly until he walks away. Almost like you're ashamed."

I cross my arms. "And what's that supposed to mean? You're mad that I'm considerate over how he feels?"

"I'm not mad." She glances back to the crowd with a sigh. "I'm frustrated."

"What, like sexually?" I teasingly ask with a grin but it doesn't last very long once she intimidatingly raises an eyebrow. "Look, you're right about it being about Scott viewing our relationship, but it doesn't mean I'm ashamed. I can't stop thinking whether or not it was my fault you guys broke up."

"I won't say that you weren't a somewhat part of the reason why we broke up, but I was already going to end things. Scott and I were at that point where being together created too much trouble for the both of us so he knew it was best to end it."

"I know but—"

"Olivia, trust me when I say this, okay?" She interlaced her hand with mine. "He was the one to let me go since he knew that I was happier with you. He called it fate." She smiles and squeezes my hand in comfort. "You should't worry about hurting him, because from what I can tell," She gestures in front of us where Scott stood with Kira as they smiled at one another. "he's moving on."

"Alright, I'll try but I still want to make sure Scott is okay with it." I say and she huffs before letting go of my hand to walk back over to the artist.

She grabs a new paintbrush from the cups and puts it between her teeth, making me furrow my eyebrows in confusion. She keeps her eye contact with me and starts to unbutton her flannel to reveal the bright pink bra that glowed under the blacklight.

Oh. That's what she meant earlier.

If the lights were on, I'm pretty sure she could've seen how red my cheeks were once she had fully taken off the flannel.

She takes the paintbrush off of her mouth. "Do you want to talk about Scott or do you want to paint my body?"

She reaches inside her pocket and pulls out a bright pink lipstick, seductively applying it over her lips that made them glow as well.

I blink and trail my eyes back into hers. "I-I...who's Scott?"

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A/N:

Fun fact: I think my favorite chapter in this book would be ch. 14 hehe

~Cimbello