Sammy sat on the floor, intuitively guiding the blue painted brush across her skin, no mirrors involved to make her costume. Today, she felt like becoming an alien, her brain had all of these ideas before today, but currently, this was what felt right. At the end of the day, her heart is the one that decides what happens here. Gut over brain, matter over mind.
Ultimately, she was honestly very scared to go into this haunted house. Garmie’s empathic nature makes her vulnerable in situations filled with negative energy. Regardless of whether or not it was actually haunted, the house was still going to be filled with a bunch of kids from Cerulean High. There were a bunch of people she didn’t know, really. That always meant there were gonna be a few people with heavy baggage and bad vibes. She could imagine it already. Or, remember it really. Sammy let Hera take her to a single party a few months after they were first adopted and the whole time she felt terrible. Never went to one for a while after that.
Before senior year started, Gar felt terrible on the way home. She threw up in the uber. She wasn’t even drunk!! Sammy isn’t really the alcohol type though, it brings the worst out of people. Cough Hera. Cough Hera literally ripping some girls shirt and then hooking up with their best friend. Chokes It’s always the same. Her sibling does stupid things while Sammy has the time of her life twerking on friends sober, until ultimately it all concludes, and the two of them feel like sh!t in the morning. Sammy has to get the inscense and wave it around her person as well as Hera’s hungover one. I don’t get hangovers headass. She always does, claiming it will fade soon but theirs actually last longers than that of the average person. Freak orphan genes, I guess.
Tonight, she had already done the classic rituals that go on before parties in the Montgomery Residence. She looked the part too. She had paint over her essential clothing and an extra set of hands. How cute, she stole Elijah’s. He deserves it tbh, pretentious assh0le. He might write himself a poem about the way she looks tonight, though. Garmie has always liked that about him. No matter how much he may suck sometimes, he is capable of being very sweet if you read between the lines. He is gentle, and it’s easy for her to love him because she sees a side of him that not many people do. I mean, the abs are also a plus but, yanno. He’s also got this sort of mean to everyone but you energy. It’s a very human kind of charm. Which she savours like your mom’s secret recipe on the holidays after you’ve moved out, evolving past your childhood. No one knows how long you will get to experience life sentiently.
That’s why she was still going to parties, even though they affect her more than they should. Plus, today was going to be spent with a small group of people, trying to escape the house. Sammy shuddered at the thought of the place. Hopefully the cobwebs were real at least. She could use a few non-human mates to make the overwhelming amount of evolved monkeys in the building seem like less. Speaking of evolved monkeys, she had just gotten a text from Blue Royalty, the girl couldn’t help but roll her eyes until she skimmed it and saw who she got in a group with. A smile grew from her lips like roses between cracks of concrete.
Elijah, Tyler, And Xavier. Elijah, her ex and friend, Tyler, the twin of that cute girl Mia, and lastly Xavier Pestana, Hera’s friend, and… Elijah’s ex?? Whew, this did not seem like it was gonna be fun. If he dated Elijah, that was whatever to Sammy, but if he was friends with her sibling Hera… no. No, no, no she was not babysitting again tonight. It would be fine though, she supposed, as long as she had her friend there. Sammy was supposed to be this big, open-hearted person, but sometimes she did have negative feelings. More often than she’d like, but not too much for her not to admit.
Dang it, she half-cursed, trying not to speak too aggressively. First the ghosts, then the big crowds, and now this?? Sammy realized she obviously had some karma to balance out this evening. She concentrated, contacting her guides and asking them to show her how this situation is meant to aid in her divine path.
And there she was, satan. Sammy gave Hera a little look through the mirror, searching for approval to leave and they nodded, the two of them leaving the home with small banter. “Hera! I was having this little spiritual moment and then I saw the devil in the mirror.”
“Oh you saw yourself?”
“No, the actual devil”
“If I’m the devil then you’re whatevers worse”
“The fact that you’re the devil doesn’t make me any less of a saint!!”
“Some of us don’t have to dress up to look wicked on Halloween” They frowned.
Arriving in the uber, Sammy buckled her shotgun seatbelt dopily, now in a much better mood after teasing Hera. “Hey! I’m Sammy. I like your costume!” She said to the uber driver with a whole vampire situation going on.
Arriving at the house, Sammy waltzed in after the uber driver, Juan, gave her a pep talk on facing her fears. Oh Juan, he’s so wise. Definitely his mother’s son. Strong, strong woman. And beautiful too, the picture of her in his wallet next to his wife and daughter truly did her justice. Anyways, the space was very dimly lit. It was starting to give her the creeps again. To the point where she needed reassurance from Hera. However, eventually she had to leave with a quick hug upon seeing Xavier. She assumed that the rest of their group was somewhere nearby so she just joined him for a quick second. “Xavier!” She mustered a smile, until he said something about her outfit, which she actually thought was very sweet.
“Thank you!! I like yours too!” It was very cute, truly. The Harry Potter colors were always something she liked for some reason, it was like a little picnic blanket made of flannels. “I did make it myself actually. Did you?” She was curious while checking his outfit out, then reminding herself of the task at hand. “Have you seen the rest of the group. I really need to find Elijah.” The last part may have sounded a bit ambigous to him, but she wanted to be direct about her intentions. It wasn’t like Xavier was much of a threat anyway, Elijah never mentioned him. Sammy could totally be friends with him, probably.
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@Kbail elijah
@Ouijaloveletters tyler and mia