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"was this really necessary?", ushijima questioned, tugging on his cow costume that shiori had requested sawamura to order since they did end up finding some information about the girl.

     though it wasn't pleasant learning about how the girl had ultimately burnt down her house, they could officially confirm that the girl was abused and that chitose along with her parents were most likely killed by the girl's father.

     "oh wow!! well don't you two look adorable!", shiori chuckled, loving how kuroo was in his vampire costume and oikawa had on a devil one, suiting his coy personality.

"huh? why does akaashi get such a showy costume while I have devil horns?!", oikawa complained, watching as the stoic male had on a white peplos and red himation.

     "because man is built like a greek god", shiori grinned, to which akaashi had cleared his throat as he had turned on the t.v. in the officers' relaxation room.

     because sawamura had not wanted too much chaos, only a select few were allowed to attend the small party that shiori had requested.

with the four commanders along with some of the officers and shiori's group of inmates, tendō and azumane were also invited since they were in charge of making the food extra spooky.

"HEY HEY HEY!! LOOK WHAT I AM!!", bokuto cheered, to which shiori had started clapping at the boy's loud entrance.

"an owl", shiori smiled.

     "I AM! and what are you supposed to be? the jester...??", bokuto confusingly questioned, raising a brow at the girl's skimpy checkered patterned dress with a copious amount of rings, earrings, and necklaces that accentuated her golden heels.

the girl stifled a laugh. "I'm harley quinn!! you know, from the american movie suicide squad?"

bokuto pondered that as it has been a fat minute since he's watched a movie. being imprisoned made it quite hard to catch up with the outside world after all.

"mm...never heard of he—"

     suddenly, shirabu—who had refused to change into a costume—and goshiki—who was dressed as a volleyball player—had entered the room with the miya twins.

"AW HEY GUYS!!", bokuto waved, to which kozume—who had on cat ears—flinched at the male's loud voice.

"oho? what's up with the extra collars?", kuroo mused, to which osamu had just ignored the bed-head as he headed over to shiori.

"harley quinn's two best companions! her hyenas", shiori giggled, rubbing her thumb over the black collar with studs as she watched atsumu click his tongue in annoyance.

     "say, can we get eating now?", haiba—who was supposed to be a giraffe—asked, salivating at the black pasta that had green olives as eyes, portraying the image of a spider.

     "let's dig in then", kita stated, who was persuaded by shiori to dress up as a rice farmer.

as everyone had coddled around on the couch, and some on the floor, shiori had taken the initiative to go get the large bottle of champagne as she headed towards the metal cart, where azumane had stuffed all the plates of food that were now on the center coffee table.

     ushijima glanced over as he closely observed shiori pour the bottle into the tall champagne glasses.

     the commanders were warned of sakusa's stolen sleeping pills. meanwhile it wouldn't have done much damage, they were all quite curious as to when the girl would use it and who the receiver of the pills would be.

"champagne for you all~", the girl smiled as she handed a glass to each of the officers and inmates.

     kuroo had swirled it around for a bit as osamu and atsumu hesitantly took a sip of it, both making a disgusted face afterwards as shiori had teased them for it.

     "shall we cheers to the warden for letting this happen?", shiori asked.

     "but warden isn't even here", bokuto stated.

     "just because warden isn't here, doesn't mean that he isn't watching", shiori hummed, glancing over at the security cameras that were mounted onto the corners of the room.

bokuto shivered. "that's creepy...", the boy muttered, to which shiori had just laughed it off, holding her glass up as the miya twins had begrudgingly followed.

all the officers had brought their glasses up along with azumane and tendō, while the commanders had glanced at each other, to which it didn't go unnoticed by shiori.

the girl flashed a wicked smile.

she knew.

she knew that they had doubts about the champagne and feared that she had dropped some sleeping pills in it. they were cautious; their minds explored all the scenarios that wondered what the girl would do after she had drugged them into a deep sleep.

     but shiori wasn't about to expose her own plan just like that. in fact, she had not drugged the drink like she originally intended to.

     shiori was about to get another kick out of this one.

     "not much of a drinker, or worried that I spiked the champagne?", shiori asked, to which kita had glanced away meanwhile kuroo and oikawa had awkwardly chuckled a bit.

"that's not it. us commanders just shouldn't get drunk since everything would get out of hand if we did", kuroo smoothly replied.

shiori raised a brow, licking her lips as she darkly chuckled.

"you're telling me that one glass of champagne will make you four drunk? kind of pathetic, don't you think?"

ushijima's fists clenched tighter under the table as he awaited for oikawa or kuroo to speak next, as warden had asked for those two to make the decisions.

     after receiving silence as a response, shiori loudly clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction. standing up, everybody quietly watched as bokuto held his breath due to the tension.

     "you know, I expected better from you all, especially you, kita", shiori spat as she snatched all the wine glasses from the commanders and chugged it right in front of them.

     hastily wiping her mouth, osamu had gently tugged on shiori's dress, to which she had just swatted the male's hand away as she took his and atsumu's glass too, along with the rest of the officers'.

     slamming the glasses back down onto the table, the girl huffed as she forced a tear or two out from her brilliant ruby red eyes.

     "fuck you all".

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author's note: not me in bc calc right now + wanting to go cry b/c none of us are talking in our breakout rooms-

anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter!! love you all <3