Chapter 100: Hide !
Keeley and her roommates stared down the many aisles of options in the costu store with trepidation. It was four days to Halloween and they still hadn't figured out what they were going to wear to the party.
"Should we try to do a group costu?" Jennica suggested.
"No," Keeley and Valentina answered in unison.
Their freshman year, they dressed up as ketchup and mustard bottles respectively and everybody in their dorm made fun of them for months.
She pouted. "You guys are no fun."
Valentina eyed all of the weird 'sexy' costus of things that should not have been that way, like lobsters, lions, and Chewbacca. Why did people always have to make costus sexy?
"Can I just wear my scrubs? People dress up as doctors; I've seen in!"
"That's so la!" Jennica exclaid. "You can't dress up as sothing you already are, that's completely against the point of Halloween."
Keeley eyed a sexy Minion costu from the movie Despicable with distaste. She was on the sa page as Valentina. There weren't enough normal options here. Maybe she'd be better off making her own costu, though she wasn't much of a DIYer.
"This one isn't terrible," she comnted, pulling out a dress patterned like a pineapple that ca with a matching hat.
"You seriously want to go as food?"
"Why not?"
Jennica shook her head sadly. "Your unoriginality wounds . By the way, do you know what Ryan and his friends are coming as?"
"Not a clue."
"It would have been really fun if we all did a group costu together…"
Valentina and Keeley exchanged a look. So she was still on the group costu idea. That was worriso.
"Oh, this is fun, look at this!" she hollered from a few rows over.
They followed her voice and saw her holding up what appeared to be a hipster Little rmaid costu. It consisted of a white crop top with purple clamshells on it like the rmaid's bra and green leggings that looked like fish scales, completed with a pair of thick black fake glasses and a red wig.
"It's perfect for you," Keeley said, wanting to get this over with. "You'll be a hipster rmaid, I'll be a pineapple, and Valentina will be a—"
"Doctor," she said firmly. "I already have the scrubs waiting for at ho and I can't afford this."
Jennica seized her roommate's arm and dragged her away. "No! We're going to find you a proper costu; co on."
She suggested a pirate, a fairy, a dieval princess, and vampire but Valentina didn't want any of them. Keeley wandered down the aisle and saw sothing that might catch her fancy.
"What about this?"
It was a skeleton costu but unlike the purposely sexy ones that were leotards with arm warrs and thigh high socks, this was a simple black jumpsuit with an anatomically correct x-ray on it. Not only was it one of the least ridiculous costus in this place, it catered to her interest in dical science.
Valentina's interest was piqued. "Not bad! I think I'll go with this one."
Jennica sighed dramatically and leaned against a costu rack like a tragic heroine. "No one appreciates the fine art of costu wearing anymore."
Keeley grinned at her. "We can't all be actresses, Jen."
She stuck her tongue out in retaliation.
Gathering up all the costus, they headed to check out at the counter. Jennica paid for Valentina's since she was the one who wanted her friend to buy a costu instead of using what was on hand.
The costu shop was hidden away on a backstreet near the high profile shopping district that Keeley used to frequent as Aaron's wife. They planned on going out to eat but the nearest fast food place, a Burger Barn, was a few blocks away. To get there, they had to pass through the shopping district.
Keeley hadn't been there in many years and didn't enjoy being reminded of the social pressure she used to experience while she shopped. Shopping with her roommates was about as different as could be.
As they walked past one of the expensive storefronts, Roslyn Hale and Lacy Knighton were exiting with a few other won she vaguely recognized from her past life.
Keeley's blood ran cold.
"Hide !" she yelped as she dove behind Jennica, who was about five inches taller than her.
Her friend was surprised and craned her neck to see what was going on. "What are you—"
"Shh!"
She was desperate not to be seen. Having been supposedly out of Aaron's life since their high school graduation, Keeley had completely fallen off of Lacy's radar. The last thing she wanted was to get back on it.
Valentina noticed her distress as well and tried to block her from view from the other side as the group of socialites passed as best she could considering she was 4'10".
Once they were gone, Keeley's friends turned to her with obvious questions in their eyes. She didn't say anything until they had sat down waiting for their order inside Burger Barn.
"Thanks for covering ," she said quietly. "The girl with the black hair is a total psychopath who made my life hell in high school. I didn't want her to see and rember how much she hated ."
A fierce look appeared on Jennica's face and she cursed Lacy out.
"I t her at that cocktail party where I was paid to act as a guy's date a while back. She was a bit spoiled but I had no idea she was that bad."
Valentina frowned. "What did she do to you?"
Well, aside from stealing her husband and having her and her father murdered…
"She pushed into a punch bowl, started nasty rumors, tried shoving down a flight of stairs, and drugged on prom night, which also happened to be my birthday."
Both of her friends cried out in alarm. "Why?!"
Keeley shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant when she actually felt a bit sick seeing the woman for the first ti in nearly six years.
"She thought I was after the guy she liked. I wasn't though; I was actually doing my best to avoid him. She's completely nuts."
She didn't notice that all of the color drained out of Jennica's face as she talked.
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